“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Category: Travelling
Hogmanay in a Scottish Castle
“The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, the hills of the Highlands for ever I love.”
Robert Burns
Helsinki :: I ate bear
“I ate a Danish. Better than eating someone from Finland.”
Jarod Kintz
Chicago: Boat deck, Sky Deck & buildings… (Sorry about all the buildings)
Chicago had a ton of metal cows all around the city at one time… They got dressed up for various occasions… This is the kind of important stuff you learn when you travel. Continue reading
LA: Hollywood & Vine
I just had 1,5 days in LA and they went by quickly. I managed to see Hollywood Boulevard with the stars and everything (cause I was LIVING there, might have chosen Banana Bungalow for that particular reason) and I did check out “No Vacancy” on my first night. Continue reading
Hawaii: The US Army Museum
The US Army Museum was said to be brilliant so when I wandered around Waikiki/Honolulu today and suddenly found myself by the Fort DeRussy Park I knew I had to do two things: Get a shot glass from Hard Rock Cafe and visit the US Army Mseum. Continue reading
Hawaii: The Windward Tour
So the hostel I’m staying at give tours. They load their van up with hostelers, you pay 25 dollars and you get driven around to see something other than Waikiki. Excellent stuff. Continue reading
Hawaii: Honolulu Zoo
Someone needs to tell me stuff… Like “Annie, don’t go to the zoo around noon, it’s hot and all the animals will want to take a nap.” I’m an urban chick, I don’t know stuff like that… Continue reading
Hawaii: Hawaii Five-O HQ
This is gonna be a short and nerdy post. Our Pearl Harbor tour guide, Nancy, just happened to take us up by the statue of King Kamehameha while en route to the punchbowl (cemetery). She asked if anyone wanted pictures and I had to stop myself from shouting “YES!!”. I quietly… yeah, ok, quite enthusiastically started on the Hawaii Five-O theme and she said “Thank God you did that, so I didn’t have to”. Continue reading
Hawaii: Pearl Harbor 3 – The USS Missouri, Hangar 79 & the Aviation Museum
What an impressive sight this was! When we got to our second stop on the tour we halted briefly by the memorial for the USS Oklahoma (one of the three battleships never to recover from the PH attack), before setting our sights on one of the USAs last, great battleships. Continue reading
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