Showing posts with label Hawaii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawaii. Show all posts
waikiki in the morning
waikiki at night







What I saw in this too short holiday is not a real Hawaii I know, I will have to go back with these sweet little memories. Till then, I will enjoy getting lost in here. You are so lucky to live there Aron! ;)
beach
beach





The small Kailua town was really sweet. Beach was beautiful, water so clear. Just under an hour on the bus from Waikiki, I found the kind of Hawaii I was expecting to see. We hired bicycles and rode around the town of Kailua, until it started to rain really heavily, well, quite soon. It was too cold and wet to swim, too bad :( It was kind of nice in the rain though, the smell of the rain in the tropical land brought back some old memories.
I would definitely go back and spend more time in Kailua if I visit Oafu again.

P.S. I have these really cute new eco-bags in my shop now, hope you pop over and have a peek ;)
アメリカの朝食
アメリカの朝食
アメリカの朝食
We went to this coffee house one morning which almost everything I saw in there looked really American to me, it was like what I'd seen in many old American movies. I didn't see any other Japanese tourists in there (miraculously), we were the two aliens. It was exciting! It was "the" family restaurant (or famiresu in Japan), very authentic famiresu indeed. We have these American style restaurants in Japan everywhere like Denny's, but when they come to Japan they become too Japanese, if you know what I mean at all.... It's not the same. Waiters are too polite and robot-like in Japanese family restaurants.

Anyway, I do not know if this would be a typical American breakfast, but to me it seemed it was. It was HUGE (like everything else is) and was far too much for me I felt bad. But I surely did enjoy being in the American breakfast scene. It was cool, really cool.
waikiki

waikiki


waikiki
おはようハワイ
Just before I left for Hawaii, someone told me that Waikiki is like Omotesando and I thought "WHAT!?". That can't be true. I could not imagine that at all. But yes, it was a bit like Omotesando, or Ginza perhaps. Well just some parts of it, really modern, big labels, full of Japanese tourists. (I was expecting Honolulu to be like Cairns, obviously I was just so ignorant, Honolulu is a big city!) But in the photos I just had developed, I saw none of those what seemed like Omotesando but all nice and relaxing and that made me happy :)

More photos from Hawaii to follow.

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