Pimp your Ride
In Honiara, one of our favourite cultural practices is the vehicle sticker. No vehicle here is complete without its own gawdy sticker and the bigger the better. (Click image…
In Honiara, one of our favourite cultural practices is the vehicle sticker. No vehicle here is complete without its own gawdy sticker and the bigger the better. (Click image…
Solomon Islands boasts some of the most delicious bananas we’ve ever eaten and there are over 200 varieties to try. Coming from a country where we have a choice…
Apostolic Jerusalem Anointing Oil, step aside. There’s a new kid on the block.
We were at the market this morning looking for coconut oil when we finally happened across the…
Moving to the Solomon Islands and wondering what to pack? Now that we’ve been here for a year we feel like we can pass on a little bit of…
I spent my first year in Honiara, my second in New Zealand, and my third on a random island called Tulagi where Dad had gotten a job at some…
The problem with street signs in the Solomon Islands is that there aren’t any.
Ok, that may be exaggerating – there are at least two.
My address in New…
We’ve moved house and we love it.
Our house is purple. PURPLE! We’re closer to town, our work commute is only ten minutes not thirty, and there is a small…
If you visited Solomon Islands in 2017 you would have heard Jaro Local’s Dakini Tangarareh blaring back to back from every shop in town.
In New Zealand, it has…
We’re back! And what better way to start off the year than with some New Years resolutions. Yeah, we know it’s the end of January but hey, we run…
In preparation for our five-week reintegration into New Zealand society, we thought we’d better send out a warning and pre-apology for the misunderstandings, questionable behaviour, and social faux-pas we’ll…
