This is a late posted blog by Nicola Baird about travel and homeschooling in Solomon Islands. The first stars were just settling into a squid-ink dark sky when my friend Navie whispered across the fish and rice-laden table that her son Charlie had missed half a day of school to read Coconut Wireless. I met [...]
Archive for the ‘15k miles from home’ category
Coconut Wireless on tour
October 8, 2011Back to reality
September 1, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel and homeschooling. Years ago – the sort of time scale (20 years?) that I left between leaving the Solomons and revisiting them – Soul2Soul was the most listened to dance band in London. It’s not island reggae, but I quickly began to enjoy their music, and especially “Back to [...]
Fabulous Singapore
August 31, 2011This blog is temporarily about homeschooling and travel. Singapore has marketed itself as much a stopover city as the ultimate mix of Eurasian experience. The result is a really easy place to get around (although the MRT/subway sure helps) and some of the most delicious eating choices. NELL: “I liked the cleanness, and the way [...]
Going for a paddle
August 28, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel and homeschooling. The Solomons may be coincidence capital, but it also leads to the most amazing opportunities too. A few weeks ago I got an email from Patrick who had read Coconut Wireless on his kindle. He’d visited the Solomons to backpack back in the 1980s and lucky for [...]
Oz is full of surprises
August 27, 2011This blog is temporarily about homeschooling and travel. “Are these kids homeschooled?” challenged the security guard at Brisbane airport. There’s a different school term in Oz so I was about to get a tad defensive – I mean Lola and Nell have partially been, but they don’t have to be doing education all the time, [...]
What makes you love somewhere?
August 19, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel and homeschooling in Solomon Islands Sometimes there are mountains in the driving mirror. Or silver clouds at sunset. Or a trail of dust behind an open-backed truck crowded with people and produce going to market. A snatch of song, Wantok is this year’s favourite or the smell of food [...]
Look at the big rock
August 16, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel and homeschooling in Solomon Islands. This post is by Nicola Baird The sun is just getting high when I first see the big rock. It’s just a quadrangle of rough volcanic quartz jutting out of the sea on the edge of Savo island. Years ago the rock was a [...]
Make a travel list
August 8, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel in Solomon Islands and homeschooling. NELL’S FAVOURITE ACTIVITIES IN SOLOMON ISLANDS 1 Snorkelling 2 Patting dogs 3 Walk in the rainforest 4 Drinking bush lime and eating fresh fish 5 Going to school and meeting new friends LOLA’S FAVOURITE ACTIVITIES AND PLACES IN SOLO 1 Honiara – staying at [...]
Lola Island!
July 23, 2011Hello, this is Lola…on Lola Island! It is a small Island in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. Lola Island is a resort (and a t-shirt!) in Roviana Lagoon, a short boat ride from Munda. All the accommodation is traditional Melanesian Leaf Houses (but luckily they have electric light, hot water and a flushing loo [...]
Where am I?
July 22, 2011This blog is temporarily about travel and homeschooling in Solomon Islands. It’s terrible really, the family has just arrived in an outboard canoe at Lola Island in Western Province, Solomon Islands. The view is of a lagoon peppered with islands. The beach beside me is white sand, the leaf house in front is surrounded by [...]
