Today started as my birthday. A delightful day spent in a tin tube at 40,000 feet travelling more or less due south at just over 500mph. The day finished just 15 hours later, leaving me with a truncated birthday. The reason? the international date line …. The international date line is an imaginary line roughly based on the meridian of 180° longitude. It goes...
We started the day with a swim – well we are on Waikiki beach and it would be rude not to! Then around 10.30am we headed off to walk about 45 minutes to the Honolulu Museum of Art. I suspect it would come as a surprise to many tourists to Hawaii that this place even exists as, from what we have seen, this is not high on their list of priorities. However, we...
We hired a car today from a small car hire place down the road from the hotel. There is no digital or photographic record of this car as I have destroyed them all. The reason? The car was a white Fiat 500 with red and green go-faster stripes on it. Possibly the most mis-named stripes as all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men would not make it go faster! So, the...
So – just to complicate things, we are now in Hawaii, but not on Hawaii. We are actually on the island of Oahu, but this is in the US state of Hawaii. The island of Hawaii is actually the easternmost of the chain of islands which make up the state of Hawaii and it is the largest island. For this reason, it is helpfully known as ‘Big Island’. On Oahu...
The second of two travelling days today. Our flight to Honolulu was not until 5.10pm, so we spent the morning wandering around Kerrisdale, the local suburb closest to our B&B. A nice area, though some of the houses did look like they might go for a small fortune! We had booked a taxi for 2.15pm and it was very prompt, getting us to the airport far too early. The...