visiting 11 countries in a month
Finding myself in a very comfortable resort in the Cook Islands, watching Man Utd beat Wigan on the bar TV – sound down, but they are playing an Afrobeats playlist, with four Burna Boy tracks during the last 45 minutes, so I’m not complaining! & then a Wigan player named Aasgaard gets booked which seems so appropriate given the very camp male staff serving me After the match I go for a swim, followed by a walk in the sand alongside the turquoise sea. What am I doing here??! Well, I’m in the last week of a month-long group tour around the islands of the Pacific. Changes to flight schedules meant that Vanuatu was dropped (although many of us fly there after this tour ends) with the Cook Islands slotted in as the replacement, en route from Tonga to the Solomon Islands. A flight cancellation meant that we missed Micronesia (but had extra days in Palau), and weight restrictions meant that five of us had an extra day in Samoa but one less in Tonga … it’s a cra...