Today’s visit to Kiribati may be a little shorter than usual. There is a glorious reason for this - Denmark has now left total lockdown and bars and restaurants have reopened for the first time since December. Tonight was out of this world. Beer, people, and food I didn’t cook myself.

Anyway, back to the reason we’re here - Kiribati. The only thing I know about Kiribati at this point is that Kiribati is a collection of pacific islands that until 1995 spanned the international date line. Now they enjoy ringing-in the New Year before anywhere else in the world at GMT+14. 

Kiribati is tiny, but ever so slightly larger than Bahrain and made up of 33 coral islands, 32 of them being atolls barely a meter above sea level. This means Kiribati is existentially threatened by climate change.

Kiribati was a British colony until it grained independence from the UK sour toddy (or Palm wine).