When in Samoa..
February 20th 2007 08:24
Greetings from Upolu, one of the 2 major islands that make up Samoa. I do believe its yesterday here. Its funny that you can fly fore 22 hours and be 9 hours behind and yet a simple 5 hour flight due east from Sydney sets you back nearly s whole dsy. But that's ok, because when we fly back we will land in tomorrow.
The weather is hot and humid as you would expect but I was surprised to see that the art of ensuring sunshine will prevail by leaving your sunglasses behind is a universal phenomenon.
The Sinalei resort is spectacular once you get over the no TV, radio nor newspaper theme they have running here. At first I thought this was unique to the resort but its seems to be the way throughout the island. No wonder Robert Louise Stevenson wrote 13 books in 4 and half years before he paased away here.
The service is great but as you may have gathered, a little primative. For example the phone lines into and out of the resort were down for the last 4 days which meant no internet nor access to the front desk. In the end it was simply a faulty chord that was causing the problem but as is the norm around here, no one seemed to care. ''Not a care in the world'' - the new Samoan motto, but when you live in paradise, who can blame them!
The weather is hot and humid as you would expect but I was surprised to see that the art of ensuring sunshine will prevail by leaving your sunglasses behind is a universal phenomenon.
The Sinalei resort is spectacular once you get over the no TV, radio nor newspaper theme they have running here. At first I thought this was unique to the resort but its seems to be the way throughout the island. No wonder Robert Louise Stevenson wrote 13 books in 4 and half years before he paased away here.
The service is great but as you may have gathered, a little primative. For example the phone lines into and out of the resort were down for the last 4 days which meant no internet nor access to the front desk. In the end it was simply a faulty chord that was causing the problem but as is the norm around here, no one seemed to care. ''Not a care in the world'' - the new Samoan motto, but when you live in paradise, who can blame them!
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