This is personal. But just about everything in Western Samoa is. Everyone there (population 220,000) knows everyone else and the people are warm and generous.

Western Samoa also is known as Samoa or the Independent State of Samoa.

Even when you step off the plane, the breeze gives you a gentle kiss, a welcome. Robert Louis Stevenson loved Samoa so much that he spent his last years in his home on the hill overlooking Apia. Here is where he wrote “Treasure Island” and died.

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