Las Vegas is a strange place, for many a reason more than the obvious. Looking down from your hotel window you’re likely to see a tropical pool, palm trees, deckchairs, swim up bars… men and women laying in the sun, working on their tans. You could be forgiven for thinking that you were at a beach resort in California, or Mexico, or Thailand, or Australia… But you’re not. You’re in the middle of a desert. A big, bad, flat, hot, plane of dirt with no beaches and no water for miles. You can observe the common sentiments, like that Las [...]

Elysia and I don’t consider ourselves “foodies”, but we do love food. In particular recently, I’ve started to notice that I remember alot about a place or a holiday, by how the food was, cumulatively over the whole trip. Our 4 days in Waikiki, as it happened, resulted in some of the best meals I’ve eaten in my life, and one of those, was at Keo’s Thai Restaurant at Waikiki. It was by chance that we even ended up at Keo’s really. We were scanning through the hotel book for a place to have dinner: not really the way that [...]

Sometimes when you’re traveling you have these moments. You get to a place or you see a sight, or you have an experience that wasn’t at all what you had come for, planned for, or hoped for, and yet while unexpected is completely memorable and delightful in a weird and wonderful way. Finding ourselves at a Waffle House diner in Houston Texas at 1am in the morning on the way from London to Mexico turned out to be such an experience.  Mail this post

I guess it actually falls under 1 main “need to know” really. If you’re visiting LA for the first time as a tourist, you need to know that it’s one hell of a big place! The city of angels is spread out over an enormous area of land, connected by highway after freeway after motorway, that just happens to be packed with traffic at most hours of the day. Almost regardless of where you stay you have to get used to the fact that if you only have a short amount of time to see the city, you’re going to [...]

There were alot of things about riding in a helicopter that I didn’t expect. It’d been on my to do list for so long… I’d had one attempt – a helicopter tour through the Grand Canyon – foiled due to bad weather; another attempt over a volcano in New Zealand’s Rotorua dissipated due to only being able to book an 8 minute flight… And so the list goes. So when the day finally came (our third day on Oahu) I was more than ready for some surprises of a positive kind.  Mail this post Technorati Tags: Hawaii