Archive for December, 2005
Monday, December 19th, 2005
Micro Blog 7: Let’s Talk About Yap, Maybe
Traditional Yapese art, Trader’s Ridge Hotel (photo: Simon Sellars).
Yap is the most traditional island in Micronesia. Some men still get around in loincloth; women often walk around topless. And everyone chews betel nut, a centuries-old tradition that is stronger than ever.
When my plane landed at Yap ‘airport’ (such as it is; the terminal is about […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
Micro Blog 6: Koror By Numbers
Arakabesang island, Koror state, Palau (photo: Simon Sellars).
I haven’t updated this Micronesia blog for some time and there are a few reasons for that. Partly it’s because the business of being a guidebook writer can be so bloody exhausting at times. I was in Koror, in Palau, the other week, driving around in an unroadworthy […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Micro Blog 5: Little Tinian and Fat Simon
Atomic Bomb Pits, Tinian (photo: Simon Sellars).
Tinian is a somnambulant one-village island, about as lovely as Rota; I did it as a day-trip from Saipan – ferry there, plane back. As expected, Tinian’s beaches were superb and the history eye-wincingly poignant – it was captured by the US in 1944 and turned into the world’s […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Micro Blog 4: Saipan Banzai Nipple Gun Barrel
At the end of a long, hot day contemplating war and the New World Order, sometimes all you need is one of these sticking out the end of a Singapore Sling (Sunset Bar and Grill, Pacific Gardenia, Saipan) (photo: Simon Sellars).
Saipan and has been and gone (I’m now in Yap), and because I fell for […]
