Last night in Vanuatu and we fancied letting our hair down. We went to the favourite haunts that happen to be the cheapest. First of all Waterside bar to watch the sunset and make use of the happy hour. We bought all the nights drinks during the happy hour and then placed them in the fridge until we got round to them. A kiwi accountant came over, and soon the conversation came around to the islands favourite conversation subject - talking about how mad the local...

My quest for the worlds hardest bed has finally ended. This bed is so hard it should come with a warning so that when you check in and do the usual flop on the bed you don't hurt yourself. The blog picture gives you some idea, 13 stone dude standing on the bed merely creases the covers (1-2 inch deflection). We also found the best humous and pitta bread meal in the world. The kind of place that once you put some in your mouth, you stop eating and savour the mo...

Went to see Agora at this outside cinema, well more like a big screen set up by the water and projected from the bar/pizza place. Three things I liked: it's free, cool bar, good intelligent music. The reason why I mention the film was that I want to look the soundtrack up- some powerful sounds if it is like the film. I have to say that Port Villa is really growing on me. They do say that the way to a mans heart is through his stomach and Port Villa is certainly...

I am sitting on the balcony at City Lodge Port Villa (nice and cheap). The picture shows the typical clouds that have plaiged our stay in Vanuatu and Port Villa city center with the beach and resorts far right. We feel like travellers that have come out of the wilderness. Here families on two week holidays from Australia and New Zealand walk up and down the streets looking for things (they do not know what) to buy. The first thing I did in Port Villa was to buy...

At the airport - if you can call it that, it is just a grass strip and a sorry looking building that's only purpose is to keep you dry. The weather is perfect (why diddn't we have this on the volcano!). We got there at 9am for the 2pm flight, so there was a lot of time to kill. Some French people were on the flight out and probally after a brief stay got the best weather in the last four weeks for seeing the lava lake. My bad luck with the weather combined with ...