Well, today we slept in a bit and then set off along the vast shopping malls and found a Starbucks where we got a great coffee and a snack for brekky! From there we found a place selling tickets for the city bus tours and then spent a couple of hours doing a series of sightseeing tours. It was a tremendous experience – hot and humid in the open topped double decker bus – going through Little India, the Business District, China Town, CBD, through the "...

After spending the night at Katie and Jason's we left for the airport and duly arrived in plenty of time to check-in and then have a coffee with Katie before she headed off to work.Had a browse through the Duty Free shop with a view to purchasing some stuff on the way back and then boarded our flight.The flight was excellent - nice lunch (with a couple of reds to wash it down) and then watched a good movie! Got into Singapore about 25 minutes early and met wi...

Well, here we are 40 days after leaving home, back again! We sat on the tarmac in Honolulu for an hour while Jetstar unloaded a pallet of freight - apparently the plane was too heavy - but our flight was good with the aircraft being a newish Airbus A330-200 which was very comfortable and had reasonable leg room.And surprise, surprise!!!! After being told we would have to take any food etc on with us, passengers who booked through Qantas were given full inflight s...

Well today we were out of bed at 5.30am to get ready for our bus trip to Pearl Harbour - the buses leave early because there can be five or six thousand people visit each day and there is no pre sale of entry tickets. These early starts have been pretty common and I am hoping that Sue may get used to them and actually enjoy mornings!!!! Doubt it though!We only had to wait for about 45 minutes and then were assigned a time to be taken out to the spot where the USS...

Another glorious day here in Honolulu, with a maximum temperature forecast of 88F and a minimum of 77F... pretty humid here though with showers in the afternoons and the evening breeze is quite warm although it does cool things down nicely.We had some breakfast, booked a trip to Pearl Harbour for tomorrow and then had a look around the local area - including bit of Honolulu proper - before having a walk on Waikiki Beach.                     ...