HOUSTON – The countdown is on, Houston. Onset of the winter freeze is in sight and time is quite frankly running out.

From Christmas mass in a village church to sliding down volcanic rocks, hitchhiking Samoa revealed the island through local eyes.

It is a sunny Spring morning at Government House, Yarralumla. Staff carefully manage the arrival of guests like clockwork as car after car drive through the tall gates at the end of Dunrossil Drive, ...