I probably will never visit St Helena, but it makes me kind of sad that such remote places end up getting an international airport and an influx of tourists.
Yup. That's why I'm going now - last sailing, first flight out, it's going to change pretty fast over the next few years.
I want to go to Tristan (and Inaccessible!) too, but it's going to have to wait for another trip, as I only have so much time off, and the sailings don't work for me. There's one place that'll almost certainly never get an airport.
I used to work with someone from St Helena (a "Saint").
She'd never left the island before she was 18, when Britain paid for her to attend university in the UK. Once in Britain, she had more money than her parents could ever get, but visiting her parents still took the best part of a month for the trip to be worthwhile.
Without an airport, the island would probably depopulate.
I want to go to Tristan (and Inaccessible!) too, but it's going to have to wait for another trip, as I only have so much time off, and the sailings don't work for me. There's one place that'll almost certainly never get an airport.