So you think you cannot live without your computer for a week, well you can and by the way the exerience is very rewarding except when you are thrying to get football results and you are on an island in the middle of the Pacific.
I left Fiji this morning and am now in vanuatu, for those of you who do not know where Vanuatu is it is north west of Fiji and back about 50 years in time, though they do obviously have an internet cafe , with a very slooooooow connection. so typing fast defeats the purpose as nothing is fast or ontime here in the Pacific.
It truly is a vacuum of civilisation in a nice way, it as if 911 never happened and the war on terror is something that means nothing. For example
I arrived here in Vanuatu and have seven hours before my connecting domestic flight north to the Island of Santo.
I walked into the Domestic terminal without any security or a gun or uniform to be seen , flight are announced by wooden signs over the desk and the departure board is a whiteboard that has seen better days.
I asked the checkin guy whether it would be possible to checkin early so i could go into town and kill some time and find an internet cafe.
"No, checkin for that flight is not till 3pm, but do not worry just leave your bag with me behind the counter" was his reply with a smile as it is the normal thing here to do. So I did, no questions about security , I just had to smile when we live in a goldfish bowl of paranoia, in the pacific that is not the case.
Fiji was good, caught up with my brother Rohan whom I have not seen for 7 and half years and my nephew Matthew who is now nine, and Rohans wife Kuntha.
Rohan is working as a builder on a resort on the outlying Islands, and rather than give him time off they simply offered him free accomadation for me and his family so that he could keep working.
managed twelve great scuba dives in five days, from sharks to man eating sized Moray Eels, (if you ever remember that great Jacqueline Bisset movie The Deep, the one where she dives in a white t shirt) there is a mOray that eats the bad guy, well I found the real macoy here a monster Moray Eel.
Off to the North and diving the wreck of the President Coolidge, and hopefully the world will remain in peace whilst I remain in the void of events
Mal
Port Vila
Vanuatu
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Envy your location right now as i suffer thru the snow and cold winds of new england.....
Ive been to Port Vila and I can relate to your experience of slow internet cafe connection!!
Took me about 20mins to open up an email over there!!!!
Are you sure you want to come home?
Have added this place to the list of places we want to see....but never will. Hope you have not created a rush of immigration for those Islands and those people of "laid backedness".
Cool!!!!!!!
Neatie
I read that there was some sort of Riot in Port Villa between islanders of Vanuatu. 2 people died.
Seems trouble follows this news cameraman wherever he goes!!
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