A big advantage of traveling around the world for a year is that you miss all the new movies, which makes the inflight entertainment system on a long flight suddenly immensely interesting. Thanks to LAN (Tahiti – Easter Island and Easter Island – Santiago), we now at least have seen Wall-e, Erwin has seen the […]
What’s in a name? Dutch VOC admiral Jacob Roggeveen arrived on Easter Sunday in 1722 at the tiny remote piece of land in the South Pacific that we now commonly know as Easter Island. In his journal he recorded that lands were neatly cultivated, there were whole tracts of woodland, the population was as large […]
According to some, Bora Bora has the most beautiful lagoon in the world. Mwaahhh… it’s very beautiful in a number of places, admittedly, but our vote still goes to Aitutaki. Bora Bora’s lagoon is larger, but it is also deeper in many places, making the water look dark blue. And we didn’t cross half the […]
It’s bizarre how a single Dutch company can have such a big influence on such a remote place as Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. I’m not talking about the Dutch East India Company or V.O.C., but a more contemporary one: Endemol. It was their globally successful reality TV show Big Brother that had a whole […]
