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Highs and Lows of Hilo
Steve and I had dreams of travel problems in the night so while I was showering this morning, he checked our bookings for Honolulu. Our hotel was booked for the 3 April instead of 3 March. After some scurrying around and scouring booking.com, we found somewhere to stay that is cheaper and looks nicer than…
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Poke and Pyroclastics
Actually managed to successfully get the washing and tumble drying done today. After chores, we hot footed it down to Suisan, the fish market, to pick up some fish for dinner and poke for lunch. Poke is a traditional Hawaiian dish of raw fish marinated in a variety of ways, served with rice and…
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Whale Watching
We booked a trip to go whale watching in Kona today. The journey to Kona takes 2.5 hours the scenic route so we were off and out by 8.30am. It was a beautiful day and we managed to find time to wander along a short trail to a beautiful cove, just beyond some botanical gardens.…
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Climbing Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is the highest volcano in Hawaii, standing proud at 4207 metres. However, most of it is under water and if you take that into account, it’s over 10,000 metres tall – higher than Everest. It’s also one of the few places in the world you can drive from sea level to over 4000…
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Car trauma and rain stops play
All ready to go to the farmers market and just about to get into the car when Steve spotted a huge dent in the rear of the drivers side. Thank goodness the person who hit the car was honest and left a very apologetic note on the windscreen with her details. She lives in…
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Hilo Coast
The thought of sitting on a plane or in a car was not appealing, so today we decided to use our legs and have a stroll around the local area. First though, we wandered down to the natural ocean pool outside our apartment. A sign said you might see green turtles here but they…
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Aloha Hawaii
Credit card trauma and the resulting phone calls and organisation left us with a sleepless night. As a result we were more than ready for the shuttle bus to LAX airport at 6.30am. Dalaman airport in Turkey holds the record as the most expensive airport I’ve visited.(300ml water £3.00, a McDonald’s cheeseburger £8.00.) However,…
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Oz Odyssey
Here I am,blogging again, due to popular demand. (Well, three of you at least) This time our travels take us to Australia to see Steve’s brother Ian and celebrate his 50th birthday. En route we will be visiting Hawaii and on the way back, Fiji. In the middle we will be exploring various parts of…
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Mount Etna
Yesterday’s walk on the north side of Etna was definitely not a walk in the park. The hike started from the Refuge Citelli. It was a sunny day, very good conditions. We walked through a wood then on to the main mountain. The hiking was very difficult because the lava is basically tiny black pebbles…
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Linguaglossa
Packed up and ready to go by 10am. Today’s destination is Linguaglossa, a town close to the northern side of Mount Etna. There’s nothing special about LG but it’s a very convenient point to do our walking from. You cannot summit the peak of Mount Etna without a guide. It’s a real cheats way of…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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