Up early this morning (3:30am). Showered and ready to go then a taxi trip to the airport arriving at 5:15am Lots of people checking in at that time - there were 2 flights to Australia one to Melbourne and one to Sydney. Boarded on time - the flight was pretty smooth and we touched down …
31 May 2018 – Day 7
Last day in Hawaii today. This morning I had a massage and a facial - they were lovely. Norm spent some time on the beach while I was being pampered. It was lunchtime when I returned so we had a lazy stroll to find something to eat. We then strolled a bit more and returned …
30 May 2018 – Day 6
Well guess what? a later start today - we didn't get going until around 8:30am!! We had breakfast and Norm suggested a trip out to the Bishop Museum. This Museum has the largest collection of Hawaiian artifacts in the world. The best way to get there was via the hop on/hop off bus (this meant …
Stop Press (29 May)
Just an update to yesterday's post (and geography lesson) - I realised I was wrong while having a shower this morning and had it confirmed later today. The trade winds blow east to west in the northern hemisphere (actually is north east to south west). I will update yesterday's with a reference to this shortly). …
29 May 2018 – Day 5
Well another early start today. Up at 5:45am for a 7:30am pickup. Today we travelled around the island and got a wonderful overview of the island. There were 19 of us on today's tour. Again a multicultural group with 5 of us from Australia; 2 from Israel; 2 from France; 2 from New Zealand and …
28 May 2018 – Day 4
Today we were up a bit later than yesterday (today was 5:45am). There were 2 things planned for today - an underwater adventure to have a look around the ocean floor in the morning and an Hawaiian Luau in the evening. We had an early breakfast and then we were off to the pickup point …
27 May 2018 – Day 3
Today we were up at 4:45am for a 6:00am pick up to spend the day in and around Pearl Harbour. There were 12 of us in the tour group with 8 people from one family - parents with 3 adult children and their partners from Virginia and a couple from Montana (who joined us part …
26 May 2018 – Day 2
We started today at Dukes for breakfast and from their booked another tour for Monday and the hop on hop off bus for today. We just seemed to keep moving from that point and eventually got back to our room at 8:30pm!! First we did some shopping - I bought a hat and sunscreen. We …
25 May 2018 x 2 – Day 1
Well on my birthday in Australia - I was spoilt with some lovely presents from Norm and Mo (our cat). Some lovely leather goods from Norm and my favourite perfume and skin products from Mo (he is really very clever for a cat!!). We had breakfast then took Mo to his gold class holiday accommodation. We …
Pre-Trip Post
Just doing some preliminary work to get the blog up and running. I need to get some technical assistance to get this to work as as I see it evolving going forward. But I will save this until we get back. Travelling light this time - so not much planning for this trip - just …
