Well, after 10 hours in the air to Paris we spent 7 more on the ground waiting in the new terminal at Charles De Gaulle  (F&*%freezing, no food, what there was was super expensive).  Finally we boarded our flight here and in 4 1/2 hours we were on the ground.  Mugr

Ian and I spent 3 weeks in the South Pacific, visiting Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Cook Islands. We finished up in the Cook Islands. We backtracked once again to Papeete where we stayed with our by-now good friend at Chez Myrna, and then it’s only a short 2 hour flight from

Tahiti ATM machine that We never managed to get either of our bank cards to work.  We have both Cirrus and Plus bank cards and they have worked faithfully all over the world.  We tried to withdraw money using both cards in several banks in Papeete, several more in Vaitape,