Blogs from Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji, Oceania - page 3

Well, I think we went to Namosi this weekend and I'm sure someone will eventually correct me if I have got it wrong. So, I was finally making it out into the "jungle" (everywhere is so goddam green around here!). We parked our cars at the end of the dirst road and headed down towards the river. We walked up the river, mainly actually walking in the water for about 30 minutes, which was great fun as at some points the water was up to thigh height. Of course, we still got quite hot and sweaty in the process, only to be duly rewarded at the end by the sight of a whole lot of falling water. Very pretty, but more importantly, very refreshing! After a quick dip and splash around, including the fun game ... read more

Had a fantastic time on Monday when I did my first ocean swim, a 1km race in a national competition! It was a beautiful morning, very sunny and also a little windy. I was pretty excited by the whole prospect, even though I had done no training and never swum for 1km continuously in the sea but I figured, how hard can it be? Plus it was the shortest of the 3 races going on, the other two being 2.5 and 5 km. There was no way I could do those but 1km I thought would be possible. I got even more excited when I registered and got my number marked on my arms and legs - it was, like, a proper race and I haven't been in any kind of swimming competition since I ... read more

Well, it's now been a week and a day. Am I settling in? Well, kinda. I've got a trip coming up this weekend and another one after that, so it's hard to think about getting furniture and stuff for my apartment when I know I'm not going to be here for the best part of the next month! I can't even go food shopping because I am afraid I will not eat everything I buy and it will go off in the fridge (lovely) by the time I get back. And there's so much to prepare of these trips that there's not much time to think about matching sofas and what kind of shelves I would like...oh well. At least there's one thing I love about my apartment that came with it and didn't cost a ... read more

After last night's late night due to nonsensical washer-dryer situations I was in no mood to get up and go today, and yet when it came to it I was still the first person up and into the restaurant for breakfast. Luckily it looked like it was going to be a nice day again today, we seemed to have completely lucked out with the rainforest trek and the timing of the little bit of rain we got and today there was very little, if any, strenuous activity so we all were after a few rays. Our first stop took us to a supermarket to buy lunch and some stationery items we had to take to the school we'd be visiting later in the day as a gift for the kids. It costs something like FJ$30 a ... read more

We've just spent 8 days on a desert Island ! Our Desert island was "Bounty Island" apparently it's also known as Celebrity Love Island - but we didn't know that when we booked it. It's really strange at one end of the island they've got this abadoned resort/film set that was used for the programme, and it's not used at all anymore, oh, except that they've nicked the pool and moved it so that we can all use it ;-) We had our own beachside bure, which was very nice; and all the food is imported and cooked by them, really all we had to do was lie in hammocks and appear at the right time for meals ;-) We may have left the island heavier than we arrived.... The reef was just offshore and we ... read more