Under the Sea (Well, Almost)
“I tell you I was born on the seashore! I bathed in the waters of the sea! It gave me food and it gave me peace, and its fascinating distances fed my dreams… I have to smile for the salt of the sea is in my blood, and there may be ten thousand roads over ...
Tale of Two Castles
According to our copy of the Lonely Planet, there’s a school of thought that believes that America deliberately left Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, open to attack in order to draw the country into the Second World War. Obviously as uneducated travel volunteers we’ve no idea if that’s true, but it’s an interesting perspective – and one ...
Naha, Okinawa, Asia
We’ve only been here a few hours, but we reckon if Vietnam and Hawaii had a baby, it’d look a lot like Okinawa. The latter because of the American hangover that came with a quarter century of occupation after the war – there are garish Hawaiian shirts everywhere, middling Tex Mex restaurants and Mickey Mouse’s ...