Blogs from Nadi, Fiji, Oceania - page 11

Day 103 (Saturday 01/08/09, NJJ) Left the lodge for Auckland airport for our flight to Fiji. In Duty Free we bought our wedding scents - Marc Jacobs Daisy EDP for me, and I made Jay get a new EDT for the wedding day too! Flight was dealyed by about ½ hour. Got to Nadi (pronounced Nandi!) around 5.30pm. There we had to wait in the lingest passport control line I have ever seen. Our accommodation arranged our transport and so off we went to the Beach Escape Resort - not as class as it sounds but it suited us for the night. Had delicious dinner at the resort restaurant. Our villa is not what I imagine a villa to be like, more of a room totally covered in dark wooden panels, with separate bedroom. Jamie for ... read more

Bula (Hello) Everyone! Just a quick note with our pics from Bounty Island in Fiji. We've not had chance to type up a blog yet but thought you might want to see the photo's in the meantime. After a few nice days in Sydney including a whirlwind weekend with friends at Bondi Beach, we've just arrived in Canberra on route to the Snowy Mountains. This is our last night of freedom before we take another coach tomorrow to the town of Jindabyne close to Perisher Ski Resort. Our new employers, Ski Rider, then pick us up from there...back to the grindstone after 7 months haha. Will try to write more soon but there's no internet access at the hotel so not sure when. Wish us luck :) Steve and Maja x P.S Happy fathers day Dad ... read more

16/4/09 = Back to where it all began...Nadi. Woke up v.itchy with yet more bites. I hate you mosquitoes! I'm sure they actually like the taste of my insect repellent...maybe it was labelled wrong and is actually mosquito food. Got changed and headed for breakfast with diary - diary + just in case food took so long to come. Ordered toast once Deb had come down - 2 portions...feeling extra greedy - and then shatted whilst waiting. Debs' food came more or less straight away, but 45mins later, I was still waiting for my plain toast. How hard can it be to put bread in a toaster? Could see that other people were waiting eagerly too...the anticipation and angst was written all over their faces. Nearly an hour later it finally came. Gobbled it down and ... read more

2/4/09 = Another organising day! Had a bad and weirdly interrupted nights sleep. The source of the interruptions, 90% of the time, was the small toddler sleeping in the bunk bed next to me, who proceeded to cry quite loudly at hourly intervals throughout the night. That's not right! Should not be sharing rooms with random children and definitely should not be being woken up by them throughout night. Mum did her best to get her back to sleep quickly, but took at least 15minutes each time. Not happy. Woke properly at 7:30am to find both mother and child disappeared; at least they had been quiet getting ready...or I had been that shattered. Did a weather check: HOT, HOT HOT, then got ready and went for breakfast. Been a long time since seen proper sunshine and ... read more

Bula! Arrived back in Nadi and decided to go to Smuggler's Cove for dinner, a hostel next door to ours. Food was cheap and delicious! And we also got a free glass of wine each - we won a bet with an old dude - he said we couldn't polish it off between us, fool he obviously doesn't know us very well! (we also hadn't eaten since breakfast so there was plenty of room, although Lib did slip a bit to his dog twice who was sat under our table - I do not know how I kept a straight face : ) They were harmless old folk but after hearing the same stories from them 3 times we had to get out of there! Luckily there were some English/Scottish/Irish guys on the next table who ... read more