A slow travel journey around the world without flying
Books, Nooks and Crannies (14 Waianuenue, Hilo, HI 96720 ) This charming little bookshop in Hilo opened in 2010 after the closure of the local Borders store (its owner even bought some of the old Borders furniture and book shelves). The booksho p has since…
Boarding a container ship at Brisbane for 6,800 nautical miles to Malaysia — then the only vessel taking passengers from Australia to South East Asia.
Twenty-two days and 7,415 nautical miles across the Pacific from Los Angeles, and the ten-metre swell that carried us into Circular Quay a day early.
What 23 days on the Pacific is actually like: the equator, the International Date Line, six time-zone changes and a fortnight chasing flying fish.
Île des Pins and Nouméa: an unplanned early call after rough seas, Cook's pines, and rock with 2–3% nickel from the old Australian continent.
Suva, Fiji: a bus into the hills to Colo-i-Suva's waterfall pools, a regrown mahogany forest, and a capital shaped by three coups since 1987.
Samoa on Moving Planet Day, 24 September 2011 — the island that switched sides of the road in 2009 and skipped a day to jump the date line.
A day ashore at Pago Pago, American Samoa — an island tour in a home-built bus, the 2009 tsunami's unfinished rebuilding, and the last tuna cannery.
Our first stop in the South Pacific was Hawaiʻi which I had been looking forward to visiting, especially since learning about indigenous Hawaiian culture from a Hawaiian man (who was going home to Hilo) on the boat. Not surprisingly, prior to Western contact, Hawaiʻi's native…
The Cruise Line International Association (a body representing the interests of North American cruise companies) reported in September that the cruise industry is one of the fastest growing areas of tourism. The environmental practices that cruise companies choose to either adopt or neglect will therefore…
Twenty-three days from Long Beach to Australia aboard the ms Volendam — and why a cruise liner was the only way there without flying.
On our journey through the South Pacific we were able to sample many of the islands' own delicacies and specific ways of preparing food. The food in Hawaiʻi represents a microcosm of Polynesian food, drawing on recipes that have been passed down for generations and…
San Pedro is a working port town and we struggled to find much accommodation here apart from rather large chain hotels frequented by businessmen, cruise passengers and strangely rather a lot of Mexican wedding parties. It was in a café here that we estimated that…
