• Oahu – Hiking

    First (webcam) contact was made this morning with Miek’s parents! W00T! While having brekkie we hooked up the laptop and webcam and coincidentally Miek’s parents were online too. A first opportunity to wave at each other.. 🙂 After breakfast (Miek just had to have pancakes at IHOP) we drove up north to the start of […]

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  • Oahu – Boats & Beach

    Today it was time to act like true American tourists, so we visited Pearl Harbor – and we used a coupon to get a discount on the entrance fee! The visit of the Bowfin submarine was surprisingly interesting, with a nice guided audio tour. Some free advice: never take the top bunk bed if you’re […]

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  • Oahu – First day in Paradise

    Well, we now know why Hawaiian number plates all feature rainbows: because it rains a lot here! But there also is a lot of sun, at least if you’re on the right side of the island, so that means almost 24/7 rainbows. Who cares. We’re still in Hawaii and we’re still starting a year long […]

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  • Aloha

    After having had an emotional goodbye with our family this morning at Schiphol Airport, and a very very long day of travel where some things nearly went very very wrong, we finally arrived in Honolulu Hawaii! Our trip has begun! We spent roughly 16 hours airborne so it’s definitely time for us to go to […]

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