Occasionally, the Hawaiian music stations here will slip in a song or two from Tahiti. It has quite a distinct sound that’s hard to describe, but easy to recognize. My advertising agency in Honolulu was fortunate to have for clients a small hotel chain there and an airline that flew once-a-week to Papaete, the capital…
I’ve never written much about Tahiti and that’s really an oversight because I’ve been there five or six times and enjoyed it very much. Tahiti is the main island of French Polynesia and is the location of the capitol city, Papeete (pa-pa-EH-tay). Tahitian is the main language, with French also almost universally spoken. I made…
Paul Gauguin spent the last dozen years of his life in the islands of French Polynesia and it’s the art he produced there for which he is best known. Three decades ago, I traveled to those islands four or five times because my advertising agency had hotel clients on Tahiti, Huahine and Bora…
Honolulu’s transit system is in the news again and it’s not good news. The powers-that-be have once again revised the cost estimate—upward, of course—and no one has any clear idea of where the extra billion or so will come from. Mayor Kirk Caldwell has just announced that because of cost overruns, the initial phase…