hi Kat or shall i say
noaia e mauri!
I stumbled across your web page and I couldn't help but laugh to myself as I read your very first entry above, before you came to Fiji.
I bet you never imagined that you would meet your Shrek in Fiji!! ha ha
by the way, what an amazing journal you have kept of all your travels. I got lost reading through and looking at all your pictures. I had to try really hard to actually get some work done.
filo
just when I was thinking.... that there has been no entry for a long while!!
Very impressive photos! And how adventurous to walk to the edge of the ocean or so it seemed to me!
i manoula sou
nauruan Hi there , I am a 53yr Nauruan male and working in the Nauru Fisheries Department, and am happy to enlighten your views from a native perspective.
thank you
I must say reading about your Samoan experience made me a little homesick (actually, VERY homesick). My family and I have not been back to Samoa for almost 20 years now. I think it's about time for a long over-due visit!
I'm glad to hear that my country still looks and maintains that clean and pollution free society and environment. From your tales, I remember Samoa exactly the way you described it.
I know we're slowly catching up to the western ways of the rest of the world, but I think Samoa is the only country that has managed to sustain and practice it's culture and values or as we say, the "Fa'a Samoa" ways.
Thank you so much for sharing. My sentiments for going back for a visit are getting stronger!! =)
Pauline
Somewhere completely different Hi Tommy. Thanks for your comment, always happy to hear that my writing is of interest to someone! The story of Nauru really is a compelling tale...
Heaven on earth It is indeed Ben. Glad you enjoyed reading my blog. Sounds like you are far more familiar with Samoa than I am, so thanks for sharing your experience of it.
Samoa- indeed a best kept secret I enjoyed reading of your travel to Samoa. My dad was a Congregational pastor.... our family got an assignment to Samoa in 1980. My paretns stayed there until 1995, when Dad passed away. Those days, there wasn't any electricity not running water in our village, but the beauty of Samoa outweighed the lack of these basic needs. Every sunset was different but just a majestic. The sound of rain was soothing and a full moon mesmerizing. My parents have passed on, but I take my kids to Samoa to get back to nature and share with them the God's creation of heaven on earth. We spent the last week of 2007 and the first week of 2008 there and even took my kids to Church. Indeed, Samoa is one of the world's best kept secret!
Bulldozer in the bottom of the lagoon!? Your picture looks VERY familiar. Do you remember reading somewhere in the lodge (maybe on the menu) that the lagoon next to the lodge used to be a quarry? Further, I seem to remember that for some reason the quarry filled with water with the quarry bulldozer at the bottom. Sound about right?
If this is the place I'm thinking of, the rooms are very nice and the food was great, yeah?
Something fishy..... What a wonderful account!! And as soon as I read about the fish / moussaka competition for number one place in your culinary affections, I rang your yiayia and she laughed and was ever so pleased!! You made her day and mine!! Se filo poly-poly, i manoula sou
Just found your blog! Hey! You kept that one quiet. Or I'm just slow :) Welcome to the blogging family :) I bet after all this time on such beautiful islands it will be very hard to please you ;) See you soon!
Hugs! Josie
heat Luckily for you your island Kiribati obviously wasn't that hot; you could sit outside and read. Seems to me the heat in Greece is getting worse every summer ( hothouse effect!!) and so we haven't sat outside for about a week ! I enjoy reading your travelblog and especially the wonderful pictures. What about a career as an author........
Yes definitely a small world...iapart from the palm trees everywhere (which I did not photograph) and the searing heat (which is impossible to photograph), there were a lot of similarities with Greek land(sea)scapes!
One Earth Sunset photo made me think of Santorini sunsets; Lagoon view reminded me of Elafonissi; table and tree could be almost anywhere in Crete! Small world?
filia
i manoula sou
Corrections! Hi Wendy! Yes, that was a funny typo...which I felt compelled to correct. I then spotted a couple more. I will have to proof read my entries more thoroughly...or maybe I should leave that to you? As a source of amusement?
Hi! I'm Kat and I like traveling. I also like, in no particular order, films, graphic novels, basketball, capoeira, well, any kind of sport really, reading books, eating good food and spending time with my friends. I guess the place I call home is Crete, Greece but most of the time I'm based in the UK.
Update: That was me in 2007. What's changed? I'm married to the most wonderful man in the world, Guy Dominic Machito Morris and I live in Fiji! My sporting passion at the moment? Outrigger paddling. More on that in the blogs! ... full info
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