After surviving a few few hundred kilometres with a friendly Nullarbor hitch-hiker with the unfortunate name "Ivan" (I kid you not), I think its about time for another update in retrospect and why don't I start chronologically back at our first week in the Solomons and our weekend with a family at Tomboko village as part of orientation. The activity was to give us an idea of how the majority of Solomon Islanders live and it was valuable, as it is easy to lose pe...

Well folks, it has been a long time between blogs but a year that has included Australia, Africa, Nepal, The Solomon Islands and even the Middle East (if only a few airports), things are no less surreal than earlier in the year. A move to the Solomon Islands for two years setting up a horticultural training centre, though an adventure, was going to add some stability to life and curb the nomadic nature of the year but as I am writing this blog while listening to ...