It’s 7am in Hawaii and surfers are bobbing on the gentle waves outside my balcony at the majestic Moana Surfrider like a sitting flock of seagulls. No one seems bothered that the waves are really little. It seems to be more about the early morning chat as they sit on their 13-ft longboards rolling over [...]
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Hawaii’s Moana Surfrider hotel
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Surfin Waikiki – cheap deal to Fiji & Hawaii!
In Hawaii everyone surfs. Except me. I just wander about. But there are surf lessons happening all along the beach and you can see tots to grandads having a fun old time. Although the latest trend seems to be getting one of these very long longboards and sedately punting your way along the sea. For [...]
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Bula/Aloha: shopping in Waikiki
If you’re due for a tropical island holiday then read on cos this deal is truly cool to Fiji and Hawaii – and word is it won’t come up again for a long while. AND – drum roll… if you mention Blogger At Large when you book you’ll get FREE $25 DFS vouchers – each! [...]
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Crazy Las Vegas: Bare Pool Lounge
Love the T-shirt at Bare – the adults’ only pool lounge at the Mirage in Las Vegas! All the clubs/bars/lounges over here seem to have one-word names. It must be hard to come up with them I reckon, and you’d be forgiven for thinking Bare at Mirage is just another one-word watering hole. But unlike [...]
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Kiwis in Las Vegas
Yep, wherever you go on this planet of ours, you can bet your sweet pavlova kiwis will already be there – and here they are in Las Vegas… making a very posh-looking Las Vegas style pav at Sensi at the Bellagio, drinking our wine from a 4-story wine rack at Aureole, eating our best beef [...]
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Crazy Las Vegas: a 3 minute overview
So my reason for being finally went to air this morning. Yippeee! Ardent fans of this illustrous blog will know that I was in Las Vegas having a right old time learning blackjack, sashaying with Elvis, ogling enormous hotels, drinking a cocktail on a beach in the desert and firing machine guns and a Glock [...]
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Top 5 things to do on Hawaii’s Big Island
Hawaii’s Big Island is actually called Hawaii – but that’s too confusing – so it goes by its nickname, the Big Island. Nice and simple, straight forward – deceptively bland. The Big Island is one of the only places where you can get up close and personal to the core of the earth. The spewing, [...]
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The West Hollywood extreme makeover!
I’m here in West Hollywood to film a wee travel piece for TVNZ Breakfast on the whole hoopla of celebrity-ism. I do actually pride myself on being a very good stalker (!), but this was a genuine appointment – no hiding behind the bushes and leaping out as he gets into his car (for example) [...]
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Dangerous place to sit
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Crazy Las Vegas: firing submachine guns!
Everything about Las Vegas is over the top. From hotels built to look like other places in the world – the Luxor pyramid, New York New York complete with a roller coaster zooming past the Statue of Liberty, castles and Italian cities, to heading out to the Gun Store to fire a few rounds. This [...]
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