We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample ... from Johannesburg, St. Helena appears as an Impressionist’s dot in the infinite blue of the South Atlantic and our spirits begin ...

One example? St Helena! A plane reaches the island once a week - sometimes not due to bad weather - a supply ship every eight weeks and otherwise the island's 5,000 inhabitants live largely isolated ...

Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.