Blogs from Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 6

Slappe-af-dag. Har bare siddet med min computer på hostellet hele dagen og har skrevet rejsebeskrivelser fra de sidste par dage, sorteret lidt billeder, meldt mig til en koncert/velkomst-ting på uni på fredag, mm. Fik allerede om morgenen besked fra hende med værelset i går om at hun gerne ville have mig som room mate hvis jeg stadig var interesseret, så fik travlt med at skulle træffe en beslutning. Det endte med at jeg sagde ja til det, så dropper det første sted, og selvom det så kommer til at koste mig ekstra, har jeg det rigtig godt med at skulle bo der, og føler mig meget lettet over at tænke på at bo der end det andet sted, det kommer til at betyde meget for mig. Om aftenen havde jeg meldt mig til at spise grillmad ... read more

I begin this journal somewhere north east of Lord Howe Island. We have just had what is euphemistically described as a snack – chilli chicken and rice, green salad with vinaigrette, cheese and bikie and a TIM TAM. The lovely Hawaiian airlines stewardesses’ each with industrial quantities of frangipanis in their hair, have come along and collected the scraps and our serving tray, their plastic gloved hands a testament to risk management 101. We head for Hawaii and thence on to Seattle, Vancouver, Alaska and thence to the east, a trip 12 months in the planning. It wasn’t meant to be this way. It was supposed to be central Europe: Croatia, Slovak Republic, a possible return to Greece and Turkey. Liz remarked in passing that she would like to do an Alaskan cruise, to experience a ... read more

Hi from us again. We are now at the JFK Inn near to the JFK Airport where we leave from for Hawaii tomorrow. It is now 10.40pm on Friday night and we have just got back to the hotel but more on that later. Unfortunately we don’t seem to be able to connect to their free wifi so I’m going to write up the last 2 days in ‘Word’ and try to get internet connection at the airport in the morning and publish this latest blog…….MAYBE……all going well. The last 2 days have been both relaxing and hectic. Thursday was an ‘Our’ day in Watkins Glen as we did our own thing for the day in and around the town. We started by taking our car down into WG and parking it under a nice big ... read more

Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii Aloha. What can we say about Hawaii that hasn't already been said before? The locals have 11 fingers? You can ride rats? Bare bottoms are encouraged? Ok, only the last one is true!!! We left Washington DC on Tuesday and arrived in Honolulu on Thursday after a one night stop in LA. The time difference from Washington to Honolulu is 6 hours and for the previous three weeks we hadn't stopped. So Honolulu appeared as a bright beacon with plenty of sun, sea and se...lection of seafood for some weary travellers. And, it hasn't let us down. Lisa has already gone through the flight details in the previous blog so after we grabbed our cab we arrived at the Aston Waikiki Circle around 3:00pm, an older hotel right on the ... read more

OK, so I’m up with the blog for our latest trip, to Hawaii in April 2014. Here goes……. Day One Day one was mostly spent travelling. We started out early from Christchurch, and hit an immediate frustration of being on a domestic flight prior to an international one, and trying to book our luggage right through. Air New Zealand has a ridiculous system of making all people in the same situation queue in one queue, regardless of when they leave, and of only having one counter to process everyone. It’s probably the most frustrated I have ever been in a queue actually, because for the majority of the time, there was some issue with the person at the front, and the queue literally didn’t move for 30 minutes – not something you want to really have ... read more