Blogs from Nadi, Fiji, Oceania - page 2

Premier février 2020 : Andrew nous dépose à la gare de Morisset où nous prenons à 8h30 le train pour Sydney où nous arrivons à 10h30 à la gare centrale. Nous nous rendons à l'aéroport. L'enregistrement a lieu à 11h45 pour un embarquement à 13h45. Nous décollons à 14h30 comme prévu et atterrissons à Nadi, aux îles Fidji à 18h30 (19h30 heure locale). Il n'y a pas de navette de l'hôtel. Nous prenons donc un taxi pour nous rendre au Blue Radisson Hotel. Nous prenons possession de notre chambre à 21h00 et faisons un petit tour dans les jardins de l'hôtel pour avoir une première impression des lieux.... read more

Bula! Three buses, one train, two planes and a fourteen hour delay due to cyclone Geta I eventually arrived in Fiji the land of the coconut and Frangipani flower. We spent our first day meeting the other volunteers and learning about the projects we were going to be participating in over the next two weeks including cleaning up an orphanage, teaching in schools and health screening for diabetes in villages and at the community centres. I spent my first evening with my Indo-Fijian family in Navo, eating delicious curry and dhal using my hands (as they do) and drinking their traditional cava drink with their neighbour and another volunteer Elizabeth. Kava comes from the root of the yaqona bush, a relative of the pepper plant. The root is ground up and then strained with water into ... read more

Woche 4 (7.-13.08.2017): Eine Woche „Fijitime“! Fijitime ist tatsächlich ein Begriff und heißt so viel wie: wir haben alle Zeit der Welt, tatsächlich alle Zeit – wir in unserem Fall halt nur für eine Woche. Diese Einstellung und Lebensphilosophie wurde uns von allen Angestellten in unserem kleinen Resort eine Woche lang mit vollem Einsatz vorgelebt. So konnten wir bei allen Mahlzeiten von unserem Tisch aus beobachten, wie unser Essen in der etwas entfernten Küche langsam(!) zubereitet und schließlich auf einTableau gestellt wurde – bereit zum Servieren; dann weiter, wie es dort etwas ausharren musste und schließlich von einer Kellnerin ganz gemächlich Stufe für Stufe auf einen Holzsteg und Schritt für Schritt, Holzlatte für Holzlatte diesem entlang zu unserem Tisch getragen wurde. Ich beschreibe diesen Vorgang deshalb so genau, weil die Geschwindigkeit der Köchin und der Kellneri ... read more

Today was a travel day from Rotorua to Auckland to Nadi, Fiji. We heard a rumor of bad traffic near Auckland so we hit the road at 7am, hopefully the last of the early days this trip. We decided to get driving and then stopped on the way at the most random food place in a rundown town. Literally, a small shop on the country crossroads. I ended up with a soggy but good sandwich, a custard pie and something colorful but unidentifiable. Me, "what's that?" Pointing at brightly colored cake. Cafe guy, "a Lolly cake. Me, "what's in it?" Cafe guy, "Lollies." Hm. Candy cake? 'Cause the closest thing to a lolly that I grew up with is a lollipop, and that's candy. So let's just run with it. And it was delicious, too. Tasted ... read more

We just booked a trip to four countries beginning August 1, and we will be gone six weeks. We got an email through Travel Zoo advertising airfare to Australia with a free stopover in New Zealand for $998 round trip per person. Clicking on the site took me to the Air New Zealand website and the option for multiple flights. So I played around with it for a while, adding a stopover in Fiji, and then another one in Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands. The best I could do fare-wise was $2650 for the two of us round trip. But the more I searched, the more I thought this was a smoking deal. Just a round trip flight to Fiji alone would have cost almost that much, and it was the same airline that Air ... read more