We didn't realise how big Honolulu was going to be, it's has a big commercial city and many high rise apartments and hotels. Honolulu is the main city on the island of Oahu and is famous for Pearl Harbour and Waikiki Beach to name a couple. Our tour today was to Pearl Harbour and the World War 2, Pacific National Monument Centre, it's all very professionally laid out and explains the story behind the Pearl Harbour attack and the way the USA got involved in the...

Olloa and welcome to the island of Maui. We arrived at Lahaina, Maui by tender. Lahaina means "cruel sun", because of the very little rain each year and today was no exception, the suntans are coming along very nicely, thank you Lahaina! Found by Captain Cook and originally named the Sandwich Islands, Lahaina reminded us of Key West, Florida, with its little restaurants, shops and bars. We met Jeremy our tour guide and minivan driver and after a sho...

Monday was the big day, Stuart's Birthday at Sea! The day started with breakfast in bed, then the presents started to arrive, a beautiful tropical flower display, vouchers for the spa, a Queen Elizabeth teddy bear and some limited edition Cunard commemorative books. Stuart had been wearing his birthday present already, a diamond ring that he got on the Queen Victoria. We met all our world traveller friends in the Garden Lounge for afternoon tea with a special...

Queen Elizabeth arrived in San Pedro, Los Angeles on Saturday and many of the friends we made during the last two weeks left us to head home. Our waiters Marik and Alexandria also left on this sectors, we were sad but happy that we will meet our new bunch of shipmates on our voyage to Sydney. Los Angeles covers such a large area and our time was short so we headed north to Hollywood, our first stop was the Chinese Theatre and Pavement of the Stars. Colin Firth...

Two days at sea went very quickly from New York, the sea was very calm, we didn't even feel like we were moving most of the time and at last the weather has improved so much that out come the shorts! Hurray! Our stateroom is similar to the Queen Victoria but a little larger and everthing feels brand new. We have a new steward Joseph, who is super smiley! We have a new table downstairs in the Britannia Restaurant with a fantastic view of the centrepiece. We en...