Into the city

We caught a shuttle bus into town; well it is in fact the capitol of Tonga, so a city, but it is quite small and reminds me of a small Asian town actually. Which is nice as we don’t really like cities anyway.

But as it is small, there isn’t much to do or shops to buy anything decent so the main reason to go in and buy a new Mobile was unsuccessful as they were all really expensive for what they were. We just wanted a dirt cheap ugly-looking thing that no one would want to steal. We then went for some cheap local lunch which was a BBQ.

Pretty unhealthy BBQ actually as the meat was really fatty so only something you could eat as a one-off, but it still tasted good. The shuttle bus was due to pick us up in another 2 hours after lunch, and as we had already walked all around the city and ate lunch we had nothing else to do except sit in a

café and waste away the time. But the staff were really friendly so we got the good opportunity to learn some news Tongan words as well as phases to help us decipher the local menus, but even their English menu was funny to read but at least it was understandable. Then once the shuttle arrived, we came back, went on the internet for a while before relaxing back in the T.V. room for the evening.

Nuku'alofa, Tonga