Port Villa Vanuatu

Big difference. Tanna to here. This is the big city. Traffic, dust, diesel, lots of people. Good provisioning and restaurants. Just the big city. Never our favorite.

Did the island tour. Don’t know why. I swore off the bus tours some time back. But apparently enough time had gone by that I forgotten why I had sworn off the bus tours. 9 ½ hours! Circumnavigated the island. There are really only a couple of stops of interest but that wouldn’t take nearly long enough. Stopped at a farm and planted taro. Stopped at 2 schools for the kids to say hi. Stopped in at a village. Stopped at two beaches. Never seen one of those before. The reported highlight on the tour was to be the WWII museum. Which turns out is a roadside shack with some debris from WWII AND the largest coke bottle collection in Vanuatu. All on display. 347 vintage coke bottles. And we were shown all of them. And shown on the bottom of the bottle the name of the town in the US where it was bottled. So now I can cross that off by bucket list.

WIFI is slow here. Pix not really a download option. I will try when we get to Australia. I have some really good ones to post.

Leaving for Mackay in a day or so. Not digging the weather forecast though. Going to be a couple of rough days it looks like. This will probably be the last post till we get Internet again in Australia.

All for now. Wish us luck!

M