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Category Archive: Vanuatu

The away normal of an aid worker

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Normal is a relative term that recalibrates frequently.  At first glance, my normal life when I’m away is basically the same as my normal life at home

Jul 20, 2018 Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu

Embassies

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Embassies are odd places, each have a distinct character, with similarities – separate spaces serve different purposes behind the walls, gates and guards.

Apr 18, 2018 Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu

The Vanuatu coconut wireless: boats, heroin, cocaine

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Yes, well there was that time kilograms of heroin just washed up on the beach over there. Piles of the stuff. And of course quite a bit of it disappeared.

Dec 12, 2017 Vanuatu

New Hebrides: Rust in Peace

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You see, Captain Efate started collecting the glass coke bottles as they washed ashore, having been piffed into the ocean by well over 100,000 American troops posted here from 1942 to 1945.

Dec 7, 2017 Vanuatu

Exposed islands: earthquake, tsunami, volcano, cyclone.

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After the magnitude 7 earthquake this morning, everyone in the meeting seems fine, so we continue with our work.

Nov 29, 2017 Vanuatu

Vanuatu: Just a few pictures, no words.

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Nov 19, 2017 Vanuatu

Kava in the dark

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Nakamals open when the kava has been prepared in the afternoon, and stay open until it runs out.

Nov 14, 2017 Vanuatu

Vanuatu: eating the Mamas’ food.

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Locals eat at the Mama’s Market. Tables covered in colourful aged plastic in neat rows with simple benches. Strangers and friends sit together, wherever there is a space.

Nov 5, 2017 Vanuatu

Port Vila: first impressions

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Occasionally a place and a people can open up, and let you see truths that you would never initially imagined.

Oct 26, 2017 Vanuatu

Vanuatu: I’m restless. So I’m going.

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It’s hard to pinpoint the subtle background static that suggests unpredictability. Anticipation. It doesn’t brew in many places.

Oct 25, 2017 Vanuatu
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