[Albion] Any Brighton fans living in Vanuatu...

[Digweed's Perm]

... or maybe one of the South Pacific islands? I'm in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Anyone nearby?

 

[wellquickwoody]

I’ll shout you a beer when I am over for a holiday!

 

[Digweed's Perm]

Nice. I'll hold you to that.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

If you’re ever on Pointless and get stuck, it’s worth a punt

 

[RandyWanger]

Looks a fascinating place. How long have you been there? Unless our global reach has taken us to the furthest place you can be from here and you support the Albion in-between land diving.

 

[Digweed's Perm]

Yep, famously a pointless answer - always got a cheer in my house. We lived out here for a year about 10 years ago, and moved back permanently in April this year. Beautiful place, nice people, spiders the size of your hand. So you know, pros and cons. I've been trying to educate the locals on the joys of Potterball, not much interest so far (although apparently people support England during the World Cup). Give me a few years to get the Vanuatu Seagulls fan club going...

 

[Guinness Boy]

I visited Fiji and New Caledonia when I lived in Sydney and loved both, though that was 20 years ago now

Never made it to Vanuatu but a lot of the Aussies I was working with had been on holiday and said it was great.

 

[Official Old Man]

Come on then. We've all just looked it up on the map. If you are a criminal you get sent to Australia, so what the hell must you have done to be sent to some small remote place like that?

 

[Digweed's Perm]

Supporting some local education projects. Although the beautiful beaches, tropical climate and easy living have some compensations. On the flip side, it's a fairly lengthy trip to the Amex.

 

[Russconha]

Beautiful beaches? Tropical climate? Easy living? Where oh where did it all go wrong?

 

[Digweed's Perm]

Right. Although the giant centipedes are a 'challenge'. Plus, I like reggae, but could the bars just play something else occasionally?

 

[Justice]

Lucky you haven’t been eaten.

 

[Marty McFly]

Nope - But having visited in 2011 I'd like to express my jealousy that you get to live there! Beautiful place!

 

[B-right-on]

Beautiful beaches? Tropical climate? Easy living? Where oh where did it all go wrong?

Try Shoreham, it's got a beach, just not so beautiful, a climate that's not tropical and got living without the easy bit.

Can't have everything.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Spiders as big as your hand

 

[Marty McFly]

Spiders as big as your hand

Gotta watch out for the Stonefish too!

 

[Weststander]

Beautiful beaches? Tropical climate? Easy living? Where oh where did it all go wrong?

Visit Brighton!

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Right. Although the giant centipedes are a 'challenge'. Plus, I like reggae, but could the bars just play something else occasionally?

Is it safe? Do you get paid for your work? How did you get into your career/job?

There are lots of Vanuatuans in NZ, interestingly I learnt recently they grow up speaking three languages due to the colonisation history.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Visit Brighton!

Can they get there and back in 6 hours though?


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[Digweed's Perm]

Is it safe? Do you get paid for your work? How did you get into your career/job?

There are lots of Vanuatuans in NZ, interestingly I learnt recently they grow up speaking three languages due to the colonisation history.

Perfectly safe. You do need to be a bit careful going into the sea (like anywhere around here), as Marty says Stonefish are a bit nasty, jellyfish, that kind of thing. I've worked at universities abroad for the last few years (Middle East, Germany) so it's an extension of that.

The British/French shared the administration of the islands until around 1980, so in Vila people generally speak English or French, usually both. The Ni-Vanuatu people collectively speak a language called Bislama, an English Creole, which is really interesting - like a pirate mix of English (and some French) with a strong local accent. For example if something is broken its 'buggerup'. New objects are given literal translations - a 'bra' in Bislama is 'basket blong titties'. My favourite is the word for helicopter - 'mixmaster blong Jesus Christ', which you can sort of work out how they got there.