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Kingdom of Tonga – or welcome in Administrative Kingdom

Foreword by Tomtom : Please accept our apologies for the harsh words sometime used in the following article to describe the slight disappointments we encountered during our stay in Tonga, but it seems that Clairette remembers them quite well and did not appreciate them … at all !

After a pleasant passage from the Society Islands with a stop in Beveridge Reef to let two big fronts pass over us, we decided to make landfall …

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The Gambier Islands

How challenging it is to summarize two months in Paradise in one post, and what’s more in English ! We have already written ten or more posts about the Gambier Islands in French and we could write, as some french people say : « Iou arre in Frrench Polynesia, so iou ave to spik Frrench » – or in our case to read French. Lucky you, non-French speaking reader, we do not approve such a …

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The Pacific : from Panama to the Gambier Islands

To inaugurate this new « In English » category, here is the story of how Clairette, Tomtom and Schnaps crossed the Pacific Ocean.

The destination was not decided until the last week before the departure from Panama : Marquesas or Gambier ?? We did not want to stop in the Galapagos, and the distance to either of these archipelagos is almost equal : around 4000 miles from Flamenco Island on the Pacific entrance of the …

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