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I'm not going to pretend to give a brief history of role the Solomon Islands had in WWII, for those of my friends who haven't a clue. Well it had a big affect on the way and there are lots of ships, planes, helmets, guns and everything else you can think (landlines) still visible on Guadalcanal. And there is a war museum, which is where I went on this fine day.
The guy giving us the tour was so sound and we had great fun with him. His father had decided to collect all of the old war remains about 70 years ago, with no cars etc is unbelievable. They are all still in excellent condition though after being carried from all corners of Guadalcanal to the museum/garden.
The one thing I will say, and I don't say a lot in my blog in terms of actual advice on the Solomons.. as I am sure you gather by now its just a whole load of random jabber about some cool places I went. But here goes.. There ARE no signs for ANYTHING. You will get lost, and you will wonder am I driving to my a lovely village/ to my death (not that dramatic) when you actually find the war muesuem/garden, beach, hike etc in Honiara. Its very exciting! :)
One of the coolest places to visit, I went there with my replacement engineer Fraser and the lovely Elizabeth! We had a lot of fun at the garden and were also quiet blown away by the history and real and tangible presence of the war.
Learnt lots of interesting facts about the war and I hope to wow people with these very soon, I just need the conversation to naturally turn to WWII.. I don't want to be a show off :P
Its almost surreal when you think that you are now stand on a cannon that was used in the war, who was the last person to use it and could they ever imagine that the likes of myself would be standing on it so many years after like idiots pretending to shot the same cannon.
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