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July 20, 2011

Thailand: Why I Live There

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:27 pm

After my first night out in Pattaya, Thailand, when I met a lady on a blind date prearranged by one of my best friends, I sat up in bed and I recalled the events of the night before. We had started in The Pig and Whistle, where I was staying on Soi 7. The Pig is a nice, quiet, serene, air-conditioned oasis of tranquility in a street, which is one of the liveliest, noisiest and busiest streets in Pattaya.

We went outside into the soi and into a stream of people not unlike that of a queue heading for a football match, except that all the women were dressed in bikinis. We had called into one of those outdoor bars, where my friend had a surprise waiting for me. His girlfriend of a while, whom I knew nothing about and a friend of hers who wanted to meet me. The four of us had dallied there an hour before walking the thirty metres to Beach Road. The traffic is one-way on Beach Road, so we took a Baht Taxi North going with the flow and got off two or three kilometres further on just before Walking Street, which is the most well-known street in Pattaya.

We had gone into a complex of bars and sat at one at random. It was only then that I noticed that the bars were all set out surrounding a Muay Thai boxing ring, where the fighting was uninterrupted and free, although foreigners are expected to contribute a prize to the winner of each bout; 20-100 Baht is enough.

We stayed there an hour and moved on to Walking Street to have a meal. We dined at a seafood specialist restaurant which has a pier or jetty as its dining area. The food was fantastic and the ambiance was romantic with the moon reflecting on the sea and the atmospheric lighting.

I don’t believe I had had a chance really, I fell for my gorgeous date that night and I saw her every day for the rest of my 30 days holiday. We had a wonderful time and when I had to go, I resolved to find out if I could live in Thailand. I went home and worked out, that if I was careful and a few things fell in my favour, I would most likely have enough money to live there for ten years.

Six weeks later, I returned to Thailand and Joy was waiting for me at the airport. Nothing had altered between us and we caught a bus to go to see her family in northern Thailand. We slept in a room that her brother had given up for us and everyone made me feel very welcome. Joy’s family live in a traditional teak house built on stilts and everybody lived and slept in one room in the traditional way, except for Joy’s brother, who had built an extension, because he was hoping to get married soon.

I love that village and still live there now, five years later. Joy and I are married and have our own home – a traditional, European, concrete-block bungalow not five metres from Joy’s mum, who is a brilliant mother-in-law. Her family appear to understand what a big step it was for me to come here alone and are determined to be there for me, should I need assistance, like my own family in Britain would be. The mission at hand is learning Thai as no one else in the village, besides my wife, speaks English.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several topics, but is now involved with Khao Phansa – The Candle Festival. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Package Holidays to Thailand.

North Eastern Thailand

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:49 pm

I met my wife whilst on holiday in Pattaya, which is around 45 minutes south of the new international airport by taxi and the airport is about halfway to Bangkok. I met her on the first day I arrived on a double date with a friend who was already there. Within a couple of weeks she took me back to meet her family in what I later found to be north-eastern Thailand.

Isaan is called north-eastern Thailand too, which is actually confusing because where we are is further north but not so far east. Anyway, most individuals who call Isaan the north east live in Bangkok and Pattaya, the two big hang-outs for foreigners (called farang or falang in Thai), and we are all north-east from there.

One look at the map and you will see what I mean. If you travel north out of Bangkok, eventually you will come to Phitchit, which is formally the beginning of the north and the northern people as they call themselves.

Then comes Phitsanulok, at one time a capital of Thailand. Another 40 kilometres north is Sukhotai and Sri Satchenali, Thailand’s first capital and the spiritual home of Thailand. The original city is still there, uninhabited and largely restored.

I live in the next province to the east known as Uttaradit, which borders on Laos to the east and the old mountain kingdom of Nan to the north. Around 10% of the population of Nan are of the various Hill Tribes. One of these, the Mlabri, are nomadic hunter gatherers who live in temporary shelters fashioned from branches and leaves. Until very recently, they were living a stone-age life and their language had never been heard by Western people before 1978 so far as we know.

This is 250 km north-east from where I live. Sukhotai is around 30 km east. So much difference within 300 km. This area was part of the old kingdom of Lanna, which means ‘ a million rice fields’ or even ‘millions of rice fields’. Phichai or Fort Phichai, 12 km away, used to be the capital of Uttaradit province. Phraya Phichai Dap Hak (Phichai of the two-handed swords) fought here in the late 18th Century. He is Thailand’s most respected and famous warrior.

Anyway, I live in among all this lot. Regrettably, I do not speak Thai well enough for anyone to explain it to me and nobody that I know speaks English well enough to do it either. Even my wife. I wish I knew more about this intriguing area where very very few foreigners ever come.

There are five of us here at the moment in a 20 km radius. An English teacher, a Canadian teacher, a retired Dutchman and a retired Englishman and me. Usually there is an Irishman and another Canadian, but they have gone home for a while. I usually do not see a foreigner or hold a full conversation for weeks on end. And I love it here.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a lot of subjects, but is now involved with Khao Phansa – The Candle Festival. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Package Holidays to Thailand.

July 16, 2011

Using Pet Friendly Rentals

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 2:44 pm

The majority of people really love their pets, to the point where they become part of the family. Some pet owners cannot bear to be parted from their pets for more than a day or so and for these people, going on vacation can be a problem, because they do not want to leave their friends behind. Obviously the solution is to take your cat or dog with you. Dogs are easier to take away than cats, because they are more well-trained

If you are only going for a few days, say on business, finding a hotel near to the location of your meeting should not be too much of a problem, unless you want to stay at one of the big names in the city centre. It is usually the smaller, family-run hotels or guest houses that consent to pets, although some require you to keep your dog in a kennel on the premises overnight. larger hotels tend not to be very pet-friendly.

If you propose taking your pet with you, it is better if you make this clear when you make your booking as more hotels do not permit pets than do allow them. Normally there is no extra charge for a pet, but you are liable for any extra cleaning costs, should your pet get caught short.

If you are going away on vacation or for a longer period of time, it is sometimes far easier to find a holiday rental that will allow you to take your cat or dog with you. Again, it is best to make it obvious at booking that you want to take your dog with you. Fortunately, there are about fifty percent of rentals or more that will allow this, although once again, you will be held liable for any damage or mess made by your dog.

A tip: if on getting there, you see that previous pets have caused some damage or stains, take photographs on your first day and have them dated. Modern cameras often have the facility to date stamp photos or you can use a newspaper. Otherwise, point out the damage to your host.

When you travel with your dog, it is best to put the animal in some sort of a cage particularly when driving. A loving dog can be a distraction in a car. If it wants attention just when you are trying to perform a tricky manouevre, it can result in an accident. Some dogs get very frightened in cars and want to sit on their owner’s lap, this is also not a good idea and could lead to a charge of dangerous driving. Furthermore, if your dog is not caged and you have an accident, it could be thrown through the windscreen. If you are travelling by air, then the airline will insist on a cage, but they normally have their own.

Once you arrive at your pet-friendly rental, give your dog some of his normal food to eat, lay out his blanket from home, and put out one of his favourite toys, just to help make him feel at home. After all, everything will be strange to him and he might be able to smell the previous furry tenant. If cleaning staff will be entering your rental during your holiday, make sure that you are there at least for the first few times they visit.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with Poconos rentals. If you are interested in a rental in the Poconos Mountains, please go to our website at Poconos Vacations

July 14, 2011

Swimwear Through Through The last 100 years

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 12:45 pm

Whilst you are putting your bathing suit on and heading for the water, the grass or the sand, have you ever given a thought to those people who came before you? Whilst you are sitting there in your swimming trunks or bikini, spare a thought for those who have worn a swimsuit before you through the ages. The history of the swimsuit and the history of women’s swimwear in particular is fascinating

We are so fortunate nowadays in the Developed world to be free of the shackles of the disapproval of society concerning beachwear and swimming costumes, because it still goes on in the Muslim and Asian world. They see our easy approach to near nudity as disgraceful, but so did our fore-fathers and particularly our fore-mothers.

But there was a weird duality in their reprobation. I have seen photos of female bathers in the latest fashion designs taken around about 1900 where nipples are plainly visible, but the legs were covered in stockings. These are clearly family photos and not pornography, which was rife then as well.

The history of bathing suits through the ages (in the West) for both men and women has seen a reduction in the amount of clothing society required to see for a person to remain decent. This varied from country to country and from religion to religion, but with the exception of the Islamic faith, the trend has been the same – towards skimpiness.

The less the better.

For example, in 1905 a lady’s bathing costume was actually a short dress made up of ten yards of material, but by 1945 that yardage had shrunk to one yard. Nowadays some women’s swimwear is made from a couple of square feet.

The same is true of men’s swimwear fashion. A hundred years ago, the normal swimwear fashion for men dictated that they wore leotards in the water, whereas stylish swimwear in the late 1930’s was trunks.

In the Seventies, they wore skimpy speedos and now we are back to trunks, although some beaches permit men to wear thongs like ladies can. Such are the vagaries of contemporary beachwear and swimwear style as dictated by politics and fashion.

In 1917, women wore a knitted sweater, a skirt, bloomers, black stockings and even shoes on the water’s edge. Men did not have to wear stockings or shoes, but their leotard usually came down to their knees.

In the following years, fashion saw hemlines on women and men rising, but bathing costumes were still down-beat, unsexy dark colours. The emphasis was not to look sexy, although numerous photos taken at that time reveal that both sexes were going through a sexual revolution. They had never seen so much of each other outside the bedroom.

This was the time when lots of our grandparents were born so it is the history of their parents’ sexual liberation. In the Developed world, we can scarcely begin to imagine what it must have been like in those days ‘when a glimpse of stocking was something shocking’ and men ‘would rather hang around Piccadilly Underground, looking at the ankles of the fine-born ladies’.

These days, you can find beaches all over Europe where (semi) nudity is permissible, and increasingly so in America and Asia. The only bastions of modesty are the Muslim countries of northern Africa and Eastern Asia, but after recent events such as the Arab Awakening, how long is that liable to last?

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with strapless swimming costumes. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Swimwear For Big Busts.

July 7, 2011

Cruises On The High Seas

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:24 pm

Are you planning a really special holiday? Say to celebrate a extraordinary event like retirement or an anniversary? If you are, then you really must add a cruise to your shortlist of vacations to research more.

A cruise is a very extraordinary type of vacation, because you get to visit several locations and even several different countries during the length of your holiday.

It is a very relaxing type of vacation because you have nothing to do except enjoy yourself between ports. You do not even have to pack and unpack between destinations because your hotel takes you to your port of call not a bus or a car. Normally, the cruise liner has already docked when you wake up for breakfast.

After breakfast, you can opt to go ashore or not, as you like. Normally, the ship will have a few tours you can pick from or you can go it alone. You are told what time to be back on board, say 19:00 hours and while you go down to dinner, the liner will weigh anchor and head for the next port of call.

This routine will be repeated every day, but at another port, although you do get a ‘day at sea’ on some cruises. This is not a bad thing as it allows you to spend all day relaxing and enjoying the motion of the ocean. Most cruise ships have lots to do during these days at sea.

Nearly all liners will have a cinema and special interest classes or lessons, some of which are led by guest celebrities. For example, you might be interested in learning about wine. Well, there is usually a wine appreciation class on board or you might want to learn some of the history of the next port of call, especially if it has connections to an ancient civilization.

Food figures large on cruises. On my last cruise, we had: breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, high tea, dinner and a midnight feast. Breakfast, luncheon and dinner were equivalent to five course meals, but actually you could just consume as much as you wanted. In between the meals, there was room (or cabin) service.

Food was included in the cost of our cruise, but you had to pay for alcoholic drinks, although they are free too on all inclusive cruises. Luckily, cruise liners also have gyms, swimming pools and deck sports to help you endeavor to keep the pounds off. I was unsuccessful at that and I gained two pounds for each week of the voyage, which I am told is around average.

After dinner, there is normally a cabaret, a piano bar and a night club going on somewhere and if you can remain awake, you can usually get to all three events to find out which one suits you the best that evening. For me it was cabaret, night club and last drink in the piano bar before returning to my cabin.

The bunk was always turned down with a sheaf of papers on my pillow explaining about the next port and the excursions available, which could be booked any time of the day or night over the cabin phone. I would go again tomorrow.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with cruises to St Croix. If you are interested in St Croix Vacation Rentals in the US Virgin Islands, please click through to our site.

June 27, 2011

Beautiful Inland Beach Cottage Rentals

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 2:31 pm

When many people, singles and families alike, think about booking a holiday, many of them would only think about going to the beach for a fortnight’s lounging on the beach under the sun and swimming in warm, azure waters.

However, many of the best, most famous beach locations are magnets for crowds of people. It appears that most people like the sand, the sea and the sun. Now some people go to these places precisely because they are full of activity. They like the crowds and the night clubs that attract them. Mainly singles go to these types of destinations and a holiday affair is not far from many peoples’ minds.

Couples and older people may prefer a little less noise, pollution and commotion. However, there are beaches which meet these demands too. Often they are private beaches. Some have hotels on them but some do not. Those that do not frequently have inland beach cottage rental properties instead. These are nearly always self-catering.

When most people think of a beach it is automatically connected with the sea. However, this need not inevitably be so. There are also inland beaches on lakes and rivers. These beaches are usually referred to as inland beaches. Accommodation can be a problem with even some of the best inland beaches.

Many of these inland beaches are just not well-known enough to make a hotel commercially viable, but some of them have cottage rentals as an alternative. These cottages, or cabins sometimes, can be hard to find if you do not reserve early enough. They are frequently complete homes, fully equipped with all the household amenities you have grown used to: a fully furnished living room, multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, and a modern kitchen.

Inland beach cottage rentals are popular because they are usually situated right on the water’s edge. This makes the bit of beach right before your cottage your private beach. You can sleep on it at night if it’s hot, lie there all day or set up a few fishing lines.

In the evenings, you can hitch up with neighbours to have a party or keep yourself to yourself. For this reason, it is a good thought to check photos of the cottage before you make a booking.

If an inland beach cottage rental sounds just up your street, there are thousands to pick from in the United States and Canada. The Great Lakes are a particularly beautiful place to go. There are excellent locations in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and along Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.

You will not regret going on holiday to an inland beach cottage rental property. There are so many variations that there is certainly something for every pocket and every family size. Singles are not so well catered for, but if you want a quiet holiday alone. maybe to study, then this might fitting be for you too.

You can fly into some of these resorts by seaplane, but it is more likely that you will take your own car or a rental car, if you want to get out and do some exploring further afield. Personally, I would rather hire a dinghy.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many topics, but is currently concerned with Poconos rentals. If you are interested in a rental in the Poconos Mountains, please go to our website at Poconos Vacations

April 8, 2011

Thinking About Safety In Foreign Taxis

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:32 pm

The vast majority of taxi owners are not suspicious and the vast majority of taxi journeys pass without incident. However, there have been problems at home and abroad, so it is worth taking basic safety steps. The added problem whilst using a taxi abroad, naturally, is the language and cultural barrier.

The point of this article is to make you aware of your safety when taking a taxi abroad, but these safety tips ought to be applied just as much in your own country. Safety, particularly personal safety, ought to become one of your paramount issues.

The first bit of advice is to take a taxi from a taxi rank. Do not take a taxi from a person who is touting his taxi service outside the airport or the train station. Most countries have a system of organized taxi ranks, but there are always rogue taxi drivers attempting to by-pass the certified system.

If there is no taxi rank enquire of one of the police, that can be seen standing in each public transport building. If that does not do any good, go into a hotel, restaurant or bar and request the proprietor to phone you a taxi. Before you get into the taxi, commit the registration number or number plate of the taxi to memory and write it down once you are inside the cab.

If you are arriving in the place from a long distance away, know the location of the building you want to visit. This is easily done by going to Google Earth, typing the address in and printing off the map. Then you know if you are being taken for a ride literally. Do not permit yourself to be taken anywhere you do not want to go. Sit in the back so that you have the upper hand if you require it.

Keep you precious luggage near you, then if you have to make a run for it, you will have your essentials and the details of the taxi that you wrote down beforehand.

Does the car look like a taxi or does it look like someone’s personal car? You have more likelihood of being ripped off by a private hire car than a company with a boss and a license to lose. Most legitimate taxis will have the firm’s phone number written on them, so ask for a card or jot it down.

If you are travelling alone, try to share the taxi with another foreigner. Most foreigners are looking for a hotel to stay when they arrive, so this is not as hard as it may sound. Do not permit another local to share with you, because you do not know who they are – they could be a team.

Finally, do not step into a car that is in very bad condition. If the driver is on the level, the car will be clean and the windows and the door handles will work. Do not step into a car without internal door handles..

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several subjects, but is now involved with RX Safety Glasses. If you would like to know more, go to our site at Safety Glasses Bifocal

April 7, 2011

Thai Visa Runs: Vientiane, Laos.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 8:50 pm

In order to be eligible for a twelve-months’ visa in Thailand, you have to have a certain amount of money in the bank: 400,000 Baht if you are married to a Thai and 800,000 if you are not married. (I have heard many times that two can live as cheaply as one, but never for half the price). Another condition is that that money has to be in a Thai bank three months before you need the visa.

This time my bank in Britain was slow sending my money to Thailand so I lost my twelve-months’ visa. There are a few choices open in this case but all require travel. My wife and I took the decision to go to the nearby Laotian capital of Vientiane, which is approximately 500 miles (800 kilometres) from where we live in northern Thailand, because neither of us had been there previously.

The bus goes from Phitsanulok, which is about 75 kilometres in precisely the opposite direction from Laos, that is south-east. Since the bus was departing at 22:00 there was no suitable bus to take us there and we had to book a taxi.

The journey to Phitsanulok took us four hours, because the taxi driver wanted to stop off and check that his mother was all right. He was not a real taxi driver, just a farmer with a car. There are no real taxis where I live and his mother was not sick, he merely wanted to take advantage of the fact that he was going to be passing nearby her village to check that she was all right.

None of that is out of the ordinary here, you take it in your stride as part of travelling through ‘the country’. The bus was spotless and comfortable and on time, which, to be fair, they often are. When it came to saying good-bye, why wife’s daughter did not want to get left behind. Luckily, there was a chair left on the bus, so we took her along too.

The journey to Udon Thani was enjoyable but long; seven hours of meandering through the mountains of north-eastern Thailand, but in the dark so you could not see anything. Udon was cold – the first time I have ever been cold in Thailand in six years.

Although it was probably around ten degrees Celsius, I have become acclimatised to a minimum of 20c and an average of 30c. We had no warm clothes and the daughter did not have a change of clothes at all. Nor a passport. And she had forgotten her ID, which has to be carried at all times.

My wife rang a friend in Udon and she arranged a taxi to Vientiane, which is 22 kilometres over the border from Nong Khai, which is 50 kilometres north of Udon – a total of 72 kilometres. This time it was a shop-keeper with a car who wished to go to Laos to buy some duty-free cigarettes.

Once across ‘The Friendship Bridge’, we separated for a few minutes as I had to use a different path through passport control. My wife and her daughter were waiting at the other side for me, but the taxi had deserted us and gone home. I have no idea how the daughter got through without an ID, but I know money changed hands. Getting a taxi, a real one, from there to Vientiane was easy.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on numerous topics, but is now concerned with Vientiane visa run. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Package Holidays to Thailand.

February 14, 2011

Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:15 pm

Pattaya is a city constructed for fun on the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand. It is located in Chonburi Province about 150 kilometres south of Bangkok. In the Sixties, Pattaya was scarcely known, yet the American soldiers fighting in Vietnam began using it for R&R and it began to grow. Pattaya is most well-known for its entertainment and its nightlife, but in fact it has a lot more than that to offer.

As far as only sport goes, Pattaya offers horse riding, swimming, diving, wind surfing, golf, tennis and jet skiing among others. However, unlike most sporting towns or cities, it does not start to go to sleep when the sun goes down.

The bars, restaurants, discos and strip bars start to open in profusion at about four o’clock. The bars are of each persuasion to suit every niche market.

There are Welsh bars, American bars, Irish bars, Lady Boy bars and each other type of bar you can think of. Likewise with the restaurants, there are specialized restaurants for every country. There are bush game restaurants, Chinese, Japanese, American, French, German and fish restaurants. In fact there are thousands of restaurants and bars all trying to become unique.

I am certain that you could remain in Pattaya for months without going the same bar or eating the same type of food twice. This is just as well because there are representatives from every country in the world there too. You will hear English, Russian and every European and Asian language spoken in Pattaya on a regular basis.

Pattaya receives over one million visitors a year. Most of these visitors are men, yet the local government is trying to do more to attract women and families by moving the girlie bars back away from the beach.

Despite it being fairly big, you can stay in your favourite part of Pattaya and find nearly everything you want near-by. However, if you do have to travel about, nothing could be simpler. Most individuals just hop on a ‘Baht Bus’. These small open-backed pick-ups can be seen going about the city by fairly predictable routes when you understand the layout of the city.

The ‘fixed fare’ is ten Baht for as far as you want to go on the route, although some drivers will endeavor to trick more out of you if you go a long distance. Thais pay five Baht. If you do not feel confident enough to predict where the bus is going, you could get on one of the thousands of motorcycle taxis.

They are dearer at about forty to sixty Baht, but they will go anywhere you like. Get a quote before you leave to avoid disappointment on both sides. If you do not want to hire a car, there are other alternatives. You could rent a motorcycle or motorbike. A motorcycle costs about 100 Baht a day at the cheapest, but be wary of the traffic in Pattaya it can get pretty chaotic.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on numerous subjects, but is now involved with Songkran – the old Thai New Year. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Package Holidays to Thailand.

February 3, 2011

Decent Reasons For Having A Holiday In Hawaii

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:45 pm

If you are planning your summer vacation and you are looking for somewhere where you can strip down to your bathing costume and swim all day and merely worry about it becoming too hot, not overly cold, then you should add a vacation in Hawaii to your short list.

A vacation in Hawaii is thought to be very costly because of the high profile it has in films and TV series like ‘Hawaii 5-0′, but it is pretty easy to find fairly reasonable holidays in Hawaii, if you do a little research. Search the Net for last minute package deals and if that fails, attempt putting together your own holiday from various cut-rate parts.

You may be pleasantly surprised how much it costs to have a vacation in Hawaii compared to a comparable one in say, St. Croix, Barbados or even Florida. Look for actual hotels or guest houses in areas that are just outside the tourist traps and you will almost certainly get a better price. Many of these hotels have their own web site and so offer seasonal or last minute discounts directly to private customers.

Hawaii is one of the most beautiful locations in the area and indeed in the world. The coast is famous for its natural beauty – the swimming and diving are legendary, but the hinterland is beautiful as well, if you like walking, riding or driving by jeep. There are magnificent volcanoes, waterfalls and forests.

Hawaii has been turned into a paradise for sports people of all kinds. There is very little that you could choose to do and cannot on Hawaii. There is ample chance for most land, sea and air sports ranging from mountaineering, to diving to hang-gliding. You can rent Jeeps, mountain bikes, yachts and even a helicopter.

Most visitors take a vacation in Hawaii for water sports such as swimming, diving, snorkeling, fishing and water skiing, but power boating and yachting or just sailing a dinghy is common enough as well.

There are also lots of natural and man-made historical sights to see on all the islands, but the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Big Island is just about the most well-known although most of the smaller island such as Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai and Oahu all have their attractions too. It is merely a case of reading up on Hawaii before you go and trying to pick a hotel in a spot that makes your interests easily accessible.

There are lots of web sites and books on Hawaii to help you with your investigation, but you can also travel around easily once you get there, so that you could have a week on one island and a week on another offering different hobbies as a specialty.

This can all be arranged quite easily if you put your tour together yourself, but it may be more tricky if you try to patch two package vacations together. You will not regret your vacation in Hawaii whether you go alone, with the family or as part of a group.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on various topics, but is now concerned with the Bikini Cup D. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Swimwear for Big Busts.

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