Coconuts Samoa

... round New Zealand for six months had taken its toll and we were in need of a holiday. So we took a week at Coconuts Beach Resort & Spa in Samoa. It was pretty much what you might expect: a week of lazing by the pool, where the most energetic thing we ...

... and felt too bad to stay long. As we walked back to the car there were now several more people around the fales preparing coconuts for us and then we knew everything was alright. We accepted the coconuts and drank then as we talked with the man. He ...

... so in the end it all worked out well. Coconut trees are full of nutritious meals so who cares about the cook anyway! Coconuts don't exactly make for a Sunday meal though and even if buses don't run on Sundays we decided to take our chances and  ...

... get all the fruit and vegetables you need and want. My personal favorite? I think, would have to be the pineapples or the coconuts... Pineapples are just so sweet and refreshing and the coconuts provide a very nice, and popular, drink. (A hole is made in ...

... to collect more and more people onboard, many of them with 50 kg bags of taro or breadfruit or palm leaf baskets full of coconuts - everybody on their way to the market to sell the produce. Soon the seats were all taken and the corridor stacked high with ...