11TH - 16TH JUNE

We flew to the Big Island, or Hawaii to give it its proper name! It is referred to as The Big Island so as not to cause any confusion?!!! I suppose a) it’s the biggest island in the archipelago and b) the archipelago is generally called Hawaii!

Our bus transfer came to pick us up at the bright and early time of 6.30 a.m.! This meant that we had ages to spend at my least favourite of all airports we have visited the dreaded Honolulu. As predicted there was a severe lack of veggie breakfast food, Burger King served veggie burgers just not at breakfast time - grrrrr. We retreated to Starbucks, another American coffee baddy but we really didn’t have much choice! There waste is appalling, but they were blowing their own trumpet about the fact that the cardboard coffee holders were made from 10% recycled paper - wow what an environmental claim! Anyway the one good thing

was that we got free internet so we were able to wile away the rest of our time updating ourselves with the coming and goings of the World Cup! We had already missed the first England game due to us being used to being one day behind and not one day ahead - doh! So we were eager to check up on the progress of our Wayne’s foot. After reading all about the foot and Sven’s attempt at stamping his authority on Fergie, I made a prediction that all the fuss would be for nothing as the beloved Wayne would lose it at some point and get sent off!!! Hmmm how right I was (and yeah you’ve guessed it, I’m writing this after the pathetic attempt of England’s world cup campaign!). After a good world cup update and some funny footballing related websites it was time to board our plane.

It was only a short flight to the Big Island and we arrived on time around 10.30 a.m. We had found a hostel that