Saint Helena Island Info

Today’s featured page: Time: Why does everything here starts 20 minutes late?
Maybe there's an explanation?
https://sainthelenaisland.info/time.htm

On this day in 2014 (12 years ago): Reports start to spread of a strange monkey/cat creature (the ‘Moncat’), with reported sightings from all over the island. (No hard evidence of its existence has ever been found.)
https://sainthelenaisland.info/myths.htm
Did you see it?

Today’s ‘Did you know?’… If your food has ‘bite’ that means it’s spicy, as in full of chillies
https://sainthelenaisland.info/speaksaint.htm
(Plenty of other local expressions on the page. Do you have any to add?)

On this day in 1989 (37 years ago): Shopping hours change whereby shops in Jamestown start closing on a Saturday afternoon but open again on Saturday Evening (this pattern remains today).
https://sainthelenaisland.info/shopping.htm
We also now have some Sunday opening, but not the 24/7 opening seen elsewhere in the world.

Today’s featured page: Diana’s Peak: Our highest point and an endemic species nature reserve
https://sainthelenaisland.info/dianaspeak.htm

Today’s ‘Did you know?’… Horatio Nelson came here, but only long before he was famous (he was just 17)
https://sainthelenaisland.info/famousvisitors.htm

Today’s featured page: The Seven Wonders of St Helena: The itinerary for your visit?
https://sainthelenaisland.info/sevenwonders.htm

Today’s ‘Did you know?’… From 1900 to 1902 St Helena had to house nearly 6,000 Boer PoWs, almost tripling the population.
https://sainthelenaisland.info/boerprisoners.htm
Some Saints are descended from these PoWs. Are you?

Today’s featured page: Lemon Valley, a popular recreational spot. Please share your memories and photos!
https://sainthelenaisland.info/lemonvalley.htm

Today’s ‘Did you know?’… Few houses on St Helena have numbers and not all have names; house addresses frequently include "near…", specifying a well-known landmark
https://sainthelenaisland.info/communications.htm
What's the most interesting address you know?