Gail Varga

The island of Tanna is indeed an exotic and bizarre mixture of things. On the one hand, it is perhaps Vanuatu’s most sought after tourist...

Sailing away from New Zealand, I was again brought into my distress about the diminishing numbers of wildlife, in this case particularly...

This is a randomly different blog-post to my usual ones, but something I simply wanted to share… While many landlubbers imagine that...

Arrival in New Zealand seems to inevitably refresh travel exhaustion with local inspiration: even before I finally touched down at my...

I suppose, like most people, I keep running in life at least partly under the steam-power of my own pocket theories about how things are,...

As the New Zealand Summer Solstice approaches in December, the days begin not only early, but slowly at latitude 35 degrees south. I was...

Having spent quite a lot of time in New Zealand over a few years now, I can only say that it gets more interesting to me the more I see...

I generally find leaving places and people quite difficult but, for once, this year´s leaving of Tonga was without emotional friction....

Far from saying this in denigration, with a hint of jealousy I can describe Tongans as simple people: they are positive, they do not...

Holding in mind the gravity of environmental change that is happening in Vava´u, I´m now writing some of the easier things to say, about...