The word unique is unique is often misused.

People say something is unique when it's unusual or rare,

but really unique should only be used in one specific context, when something is truly

one of a kind, unlike anything that can be found anywhere else in the world.

It's rare for a place to be truly unique.

You know, Shanghai is the Paris of the East, Dubai is the Manhattan of the Middle East,

Manchester is the London of the North,

etc, etc.

Nearly everywhere can be described in reference to somewhere else.

That's why, those rare times when I discover somewhere that is genuinely different than every other place on Earth,

somewhere that has taken the ingredients of what makes a place a place, people, culture, environment,

history, and amalgamated them into something that can't be found anywhere else on Earth, it immediately shoots to the top of my travel bucket list.

In October 2019, myself, a producer and a videographer, each got on a series of planes and flew 10,000 miles

or 15,000 kilometers to the edge of the earth to go to one of the few places that can truly

be described as unique. To small island in the middle of the

South Atlantic. Then we got to work. Okay welcome to St. Helena, good to

have you here. My name is Basil George. I'm an Islander. I live most of my life here.

I'm Nicole Shamir. I'm St. Melina Government's chief economist.

My name is Susan Abbe and I am Chief Secretary for St. Lena government.

So my name is Tara Wirtley and I live on St. Lena.

I work with my family business called the Rosen Crown, which is owner-managed between my mom dad and myself.

My name's Pamela Waterpiers.

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