This is a blog post about... (wait for it) GINGER BEER!! Throughout my travels, I have found that I love ginger beer. From the Cook Islands to Australia, I have tasted many different ginger beers, some that are absolutely delicious and some that are, quite literally, meh. What I mean about that is that some …
Reflections on the Cook Islands
by Neil Reflections on the Cook Islands Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands is a rare slice of paradise at first glance. I could see myself living there----almost. It is a place of contrasts that juxtaposes the idyllic with the distasteful. Christianity arrived relatively late in the Cook Islands, with the first missionaries arriving in …
The Cook Islands National Library
By Rachel As a librarian (and because it was just down the road from where we were staying), I had to check out the national library. It is important to say, before I go on, that the Cook Islands covers 2million square kilometres of ocean and has a population of only 25,000 spread over 11 …
Un cruise sur le lagon
Mecredi le 11 octobre, à dix heures du matin un autobus nous a conduit à Captain Tama’s Lagoon Cruizes © pour un cruise à onze heures. Quand les bateaux étaient prêts à aller, notre grand groupe s’est séparer en quatre plus petit groupe pour aller sur les quatre bateaux. Quand on ses assis dans le …
Accessing the internet
It is one of those things we take for granted in Canada – that wifi hotspots are nearly ubiquitous, open, and freely available. Not the case everywhere. A bit of a wake-up call for us when we got to the Cook Islands! There were wifi hotspots but they were hotspots for a fee, and they …
The Matutu Brewery
Today, we went to a brewery on Rarotonga. It was called Matutu brewery. It was quite interesting, considering the fact that the brewery was very small, had only 2 fermentation barrels and that there would be no other brewery that I would visit that would work quite like this one. It used old machinery and …
My life in the cook islands
For the past few days I have been living in the Cook Islands. They are a protectorate of New Zealand but they have their own parliament and police force. In the time that we’ve been here It’s been hot, humid and rainy, but other than that it has been a very interesting time. The island …
The amazing Rarotonga
We arrived in Rarotonga on October 8.When I stepped out of the plane the first thing I noticed was that the air was muggy and humid and that it was difficult to breathe because I wasn’t used to it. One of the many things I noticed on the first day was that almost nothing is …
A year of discovery 