The von Engelbrechten Family Quit The Rat Race For Life On A Remote Tongan Island...

The family von Engelbrechten, Boris and Karen and their sons Jack, Luca and Felix live on the remote Tongan island of Fofoa
in the Vava'u Group.
Having sailed there and spent many months there some years ago I can assure you it's one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
So who could blame them swapping the insane commute from a little village near Bath in south west England along the M4 to work in London when they could be living the dream miles from anywhere and away from the pressures of consumerism and western bureaucracy.
There's more about them here.
If you can dream it, you can do it...

Award Winning Photos Of The Beautiful Humpback Whale Off The Coast Of Vava'u In The Kingdom Of Tonga...

The Great Migration.
A wonderful series of photos taken by The New Zealand Herald photographer Richard Robinson that have won the 2013 National/Metropolitan Features Photograph Of The Year Award.
These beautiful creatures were photographed in the waters of the Vava'u Group in the Pacific's Kingdom of Tonga.
Congratulations Richard...

Whale Watching Delights In The Kingdom Of Tonga...

Recent visitors to The Kingdom Of Tonga's Vava'u Island Group have been treated to some close encounters with thirty six tonne Humpback Whales and their calves during the mammals' annual five month sojourn in the South Pacific.
New Zealand Herald photographer Richard Robinson was, as you can see here, very up close and personal underwater.
The Humpbacks spend the months of July to November in the warm waters of Tonga before migrating south to spend the summer feeding in Antarctica.
Vava'u has some of the world's most beautiful cruising grounds as visiting yachties will attest to.
I spent many wonderful months there on my yacht Sofia some years ago.
But that's another story...