🚗️ 🚙️ Rally Day!

Today on the outskirts of Port Vila there is a car rally. This one is being held on a large farm with its own track. Lots of excitement and anticipation. The people of Vanuatu are as passionate about sport as the next nation, so this will be well...

📑️🤓️ The vital importance of Local Knowledge

There’s a yacht that arrived a couple of days ago, and is now moored in Port Vila harbour. They just got fined around USD5,000. (!) It’s a classic story of what can go wrong when you don’t have local knowledge. None of the 3 people on the yacht...

🌏️ Connecting to the world… times 4

News this week that a second undersea communications cable will shortly be laid, this time between Vanuatu and Honiara, Solomon Islands. So we will have backup for undersea cabling, as the original one connects us to Suva, Fiji where it joins the trans-Pacific...

☔️ Rain is softly falling…

Rain is softly falling as I write. Of course, almost everywhere in the tropics there are basically 2 seasons, “the Wet” and “the Dry.” It seems that we are entering “the Wet” now, which is not surprising. “The...