by Lance Hunt | Nov 13, 2021
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...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 12, 2021
Many, yes MANY, of my clients ask this question. They have skills and wonder how viable it would be to live in Vanuatu and earn a living from here online. (like me!) Honestly the answer is simple… Almost anything you can do to make a living online...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 11, 2021
Way back in 1980 on this very day, 11th November, my wife and I were walking through the very large Indooroopilly Shoppingtown in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was around 10:59 in the morning, when a voice surprised us as it boomed over the public address...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 10, 2021
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...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 8, 2021
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...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 7, 2021
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...