Around a week after we arrived in Tonga we had slowed down and learned to accept the Tongan way. Life here is unpolished and nothing happens fast, or even at all. Church, feasts, sleeping and relaxing seem the order of the day.
We arrived late August in 2019 aboard our yacht , an aluminium Allures 45.9 that we had bought two years earlier with a view to circumnavigating the globe. Tonga was the final country we visited before heading south to New Zealand to avoid the cyclone season. It would
