by Lance Hunt | Oct 17, 2021
Today – a few hours before writing this on a Saturday afternoon – I was working in the garden when I felt something land on the back of my neck. Sure enough, next instant there was a sudden VERY sharp pain! If you’ve had the experience of a wasp...
by Lance Hunt | Oct 16, 2021
When you leave the central business area of Port Vila and drive up the hill with the harbour on your right, you pass many places where it’s customary for people to gather on a Friday evening for a drink with friends. Since it’s almost Friday evening as I...
by Lance Hunt | Oct 15, 2021
“Oh, he’s gone to Santo” …meaning the island of “Espirito Santo,” or substitute any of 80+ other islands they might have gone to. It’s a common response here in Vanuatu. You go into a government or business office, and...
by Lance Hunt | Oct 14, 2021
My best friend is from Europe, and her family on her mother’s side are Jewish. Which means nearly half her family was wiped out in the Holocaust. However not all. Some Jews in the 30s and 40s escaped Europe in the face of the Nazi threat. Some of her family had...
by Lance Hunt | Oct 13, 2021
There would be lots of reasons why someone could not get a second Citizenship via one of the Citizenship By Investment programmes out there. The most common one would be price, since they are all over 100 thousand USD. However, one of the LEAST likely reasons why...
by Lance Hunt | Oct 12, 2021
Yesterday on our day off, Adeline and I invited a friend over for lunch. While we sat on the patio enjoying the mild sunny Vanuatu day and the view of the water, our talk turned to the subject of citizenship. Our friend first came here for for a 6-month work...