Where the Magic Happens Is there anything more magical than being in Disneyland on your birthday? At any age, I contend there’s not. We had just finished with a wonderful six days of touring Paris and decided to use one of our free nights from hotels.com to stay on the Disney resort at the Santa…
Author: Charity Kuahiwinui
The Parisien Biggies
The Parisien Biggies Eiffel Tower, River Seine Cruise, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Sacre Couer, Latin Quarter On our very first night in Paris, I dragged Maylene immediately off to the Eiffel Tower and we arrived at dusk, staying long enough to watch the sun set from the middle viewing level of the tower. It…
Free Derry – no seriously, free Derry already
Before setting off on our Irish adventure, we had identified a few towns and sites that we really wanted to see. Rick Steves had a show on Northern Ireland and let us know about this little town known as Londonderry. It had these great murals from an uprising incident sometime in the past and would…
The Coach Isle
I know, I know — Ireland is supposed to be The Emerald Isle and not the Coach Isle and truly, it is green – very green — there are at least forty different shades of it – just ask Johnny Cash. But truly, allow me the indulgence of temporarily re-branding the poetic name as is…
Not-So Easyjet – Part 1
We booked our trip to Belfast from London with EasyJet out of Stanstead in an effort to save a few pounds and arrive at a decent time. With the flight leaving at 11:55 am, we were off to the airport via Underground and then 45-minute train ride from Liverpool Street at 9 am. We made…
Very, Very British
We were very excited to be in London – the capital of the United Kingdom and the center of it’s vast (or at least formerly vast) empire. Being the unapologetic nerds that we are, we spent two afternoons at both the British Museum and the National Gallery. We had a tremendous time and were very…
Ummm…I think that was the Changing of the Guard…?!
We arrived in London yesterday afternoon and, after a few snafus courtesy of the National Express bus service, we settled into our hotel just fine and quickly made our way out toward the town proper and more specifically, in search of “the theatre“. We found it at the tkts booth in Leichester Square where they…
We are speaking the same language…right??
For the past few days we have been enjoying time in small towns just outside London. They’ve been just great – we’ve enjoyed doing a few of the local activities and mostly just checking out the towns themselves. York is such a charming city surrounded by city walls that are so much fun to walk…
The UK Countryside
After bumping around for a few days in Southern England, we headed north via motorway with Maylene driving and me navigating. Yes – she gets the award because not only is she driving on the left-hand side of the road, but she’s also driving a manual and shifting with her left hand — my hero!!…
Stonehenge and Avebury
Quick note: hey, leave us a comment, if you’re so inclined. It’s easy enough to do– just click on that cartoony dialogue balloon to the right of the post title. We love hearing from you. So before we set out from the lovely, medieval town of Wells on our adventure to Stonehenge and Avebury, we’d…