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One day in Hawaii

Hawaii is an excellent stopover when travelling from Canada to Australia, albeit an expensive one. That’s why we only spent one full day there on our latest trip to the southern hemisphere.  It was just enough time to pull out the camera and wander around Ala Moana Park. Amazingly, there …

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Aloha Oahu (and the whole vacation adventure)

A dictionary of the Hawaiian language describes aloha as “A word expressing different feelings; love, affection, gratitude, kindness, pity, compassion, grief, the modern common salutation at meeting; parting” and Anthropologist Frances Newton states that “Aloha is a complex and profound sentiment. Such emotions defy definition”. Together that sums up this …

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