How Australia killed our dream honeymoon to Vanuatu

Daily Post - Elena and I got married on the second last day of 2015, just a few days before she began her MBA in January. We had met four years earlier, in London, at an expats meeting, and we’re now living in Paris where I work and where she would be studying. Her imminent studies meant that we would have to hold off our honeymoon until she had finished a year later, for want of time as well as the finances. The MBA wasn’t going to pay for itself, after all. We had dreamed of going to Vanuatu — a paradise land of turquoise waters, sunny beaches and fiery volcanoes. It always seemed so far-fetched, though; almost half a world away, it was just about the most remote place on earth from where we lived. Late last year, as she was going to graduate in December, I had decided to make the dream...

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Vanuatu Daily post - Passengers push plane

By Len Garae, Vanuaty Daily Post Airports Vanuatu Limited with approval from the Council of Chiefs of Maewo and Landowners of Malolo Airfield should consider agreeing to harden the surface of the runway to stop planes from skidding on the wet grass. In the latest incident last Friday morning, whether the pilot knew that the right side just before the end of the airstrip has no ditch or stones or tree trunks except bush vines and a garden of island cabbage is not clear, but I was sitting on the right of the cockpit as the Air Taxi plane touched down in the rain and skidded on the wet, slippery grass towards the end of the airstrip without stopping. I glanced at the pilot with four stripes on her uniform as she calmly steered her plane...

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