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Papua New Guinea Foreign Affairs Minister  Justin Tkatchenko has announced a K6 million allocation in the 2023 Budget for the refurbishment of Papua New Guinea’s Embassy office and all its state owned properties in Jakarta, Indonesia.  Minister Tkatchenko upon his arrival in Jakarta on Saturday told staff that Indonesia was among the first of four foreign missions that the government had approved for renovation and refurbishment.  “I look forward in renovating the properties, getting them back to a modern standard as the Republic of Indonesia is an important diplomatic partner to Papua New Guinea,” Minister Tkatchenko said.  While on his way to Bali, Indonesia for the Pacific Forum for Development, Minister Tkatchenko visited the embassy office and all state owned properties in Jakarta.  Minister Tkatchenko said the government was resolute in its commitment to transform all missions abroad and this was demonstrated by tripling the budget for The Department of Foreign Affairs to K120 mi

This short film is part of our lost video collection from when we first visited Morocco in 2010. It was a little wild in Morocco at that time and being tall Europeans we stood out like a sore thumb making us an absolute target for the locals. The whole time we were then we were being approached by unwanted salesmen, scammed several times until we realised what was going on, and generally ignored in the cafes and restaurants presumably because of either local religious reasons or because I was with my wife. That being said we visited a few years later after the King of Morocco wanted to create an environment that would attract more foreign visitors and we found it felt a lot safer with much less unsolicited encounters. If you would like to see more videos like this then check out our YouTube channel – ‘Walking Talking Gardeners’. It is absolutely free to subscribe and you can unsubscribe immediately at any time.