Fiji
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu

Samoa
New Zealand

Here I am in the Tropics, the temperature sits at around 30C and I have caught a stinking cold. It's not a suprise really since I have being going in and out of the most severly airconditioned room you can imagine, it should really be called a refrigerator. I had to put in another half days work at FFA and put the finishing touches to the documentation and run over a few system adminstration tips, but everything seems to have worked out satisfactorily with the exception of some DNS issues, for which I have put together suggestions for their resolution. I was meant to be going to Solbrew tomorrow to sort out some problems with their Novell network, but the cold is a real stinker and I know I will not be in a fit state. What a shame, I was looking forward to payment in kind.

When I finished there was no point going back to Venise and Freds since they arranged to have a barbeque up at the FFA. They seem to have invited the whole of the Solomon Island Samoan community and quite a few people from the FFA, ao whilst I was working everyone else was preparing salads and meat and fish for the barbeque, so I had a pleasant couple of hours sitting on the side of a hill overlooking Honiara.

People started to arrive at about six o'clock, and before long everyone was eating and drinking to their hearts content. A shortage of beer was never going to be on the cards, one of the guests works for Solbrew, and arranged for a barrel and cooling equipment at very competative rates. There was also a Swiss engineer from Germany, who was working on the refrigeration systems at the brewery, so if the beer wasn't cold enough then we knew a man who could fix it. The engineer seems to spend all his time travelling from one exotic part of the world to another. Eku, the part owners of Solbrew also have interests in Vailima as well as breweries in Africa and the Carribean.