Author Archives: Pat Feldhaus

Since I had a friend with Ontario Tourism contacts, I received FREE air fare and lodging plus 9 plays at the Shaw Festival near Niagara Falls. A limousine met my flight and transported me to The Pillar and Post, a … Continue reading →

Polynesian Night on the Aranui II featured a buffet dinner on the deck; however, the big entertainment was when Kathy and some of the French passengers danced and sang native songs. She was barefoot and wore her Gaugin parea with … Continue reading →

Residents of Fatu Hiva demonstrated making “”umu hei” (floral headbands) and tapa cloth from bark. Kathy joined the hikers who walked ten miles over the ridge to the next village while the rest of us went by the Aranui III, … Continue reading →

At Ua Pou sarong clad dancers came aboard and entertained us during breakfast. Robert Louis Stevenson observed in 1880 that Ua Pou “had volcanic needles like the pinnacles of some ornate church.” Kathy went ashore to climb a summit and … Continue reading →

I went ashore at Nuku Hiva, a volcanic island which Herman Melville wrote about in “Typee” when he jumped ship and spent some time there. Our jeep followed Melville’s footsteps as we bumped along a twisty dirt road, stopped at … Continue reading →

The days when we were “at sea ” I read, napped and dined. Breakfast was served buffet style, lunch and dinner were served family style with a starter of soup or salad, a main course of meat or fash (A … Continue reading →

Our first day on Tahiti, we went on a full circle tour of the island which included lunch. Views of a lighthouse, waterfalls, a grotto, blowhole and several gardens featuring exotic tropical flowers = always with jungle vegetation on one … Continue reading →

When my daughter, Kathy, and I decided to go for a cruise on the Aranui III, a 180 Passenger/freighter, which sailed 800 miles northeast of Tahiti through the Marquesas Islands. I didn’t realize just how relaxing the trip would be. … Continue reading →

What a treat to visit Ashford Castle (1228 A.S.), one of the world’s leading luxurious resort/hotels located in Cong, County Mayo, on a 350 acre estate once owned by the Guiness (beer) family who sold it to the state in … Continue reading →

The rainy day started with a double rainbow as we headed out for a Connemarra excursion where the Galway mountains dropped down to the coast and little white washed, thatched roofed cottages were scattered over this land of mountains, rivers … Continue reading →