Although it seems to have flown, I'm now on my last day in Fiji :( so I thought it was probably blog time! I got to Nadi at Stupid O'Clock in the morning, with someone having stolen a whole day from me en route - we left on Monday, and landed on Wednesday due to crossing the dateline during the ten hour flight! I had one day and night at the Aquarius Pacific in Nadi, a beautiful (which, believe me, is a word I will be using a lot in this blog) Hostel on the beach. The following day, the coach [View Full Entry]

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spent the last two weeks on paradise island and cant say much about it except it was amazing and teh snorkling was amazing and the tan is back with a vengance. back two weeks wednesday which is a highly scary prospect but there are several things i am lookign forward too: cheese wardrobe/drawers not having smelly dirty clothes not washing my knickers in the shower mums fish pie mums cooking in general wine cider showering in a nice bathroom my bed my pillows my house trifle chocolate cake several ice cream flavours nice clothes nice shoes cheese (again) samoa in two [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, I'm on a very slow and expensive connection in the Fiji Yasawa islands so this can only be a quick message. Fiji has been great so far - although its been a bit difficult going from doing things constantly for 5 1/2 months to doing very little! The resorts i've been to out here are Korovu and Waya Lai Lai and i'm heading to Bounty island tomorrow (famous for Celebrity love island), before heading down to Pacific harbour on the main island for a shark dive! I pretty much got offered a job out here from a guy back [View Full Entry]

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The sad thing is that I am actually writing my blog now from home, having returned last Tuesday (15th July), as when I logged onto my blog page to update it for the last time it went down (typical eh?!) but thankfully it's up again and working! So I am writing this this in (relative) comfort, not living out of my backpack anymore (yey!) and have had a decent shower but I have to finish what I started, so here goes for the remainder of Fiji... Having decided that I would make the most of my Bula Pass, but not to [View Full Entry]

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Wow, time has slipped by so fast we haven’t had a chance to do more of our blog but here it is - better late than never: 14th June. Our trip by train was very long, approximately 7 hours, but we had some interesting company, with 2 people from Columbia, who had just got off a cruise ship, in our train compartment. At their home in Columbia they have maids and a chauffer and while they have being cruising they have a taxi driver for the day when they have time in each port. We don’t hold that against them. They [View Full Entry]

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Unser erstes Ziel in den Mamanucas war dann Bounty Island. Zu Bounty gibt's nicht allzu viel zu sagen, die Insel ist total klein und in etwas mehr als 20 Minuten umrundet. Gemacht haben wir hier nicht viel, es regnete leider den ganzen Tag wie aus Kuebeln (entweder es ist hier strahlend schoen oder es giesst), ausser dass wir am Vorabend alle Cocktails mit Baileys probierten - und das waren einige *g*. Am Mittag ging's dann nach Beachcomber Island, der Party-Insel schlechthin in den Mamanucas. Bei unserer Ankunft war uebrigens ALLES was wir mithatten komplett durchnaesst. Dafuer was das Essen auf Beachcomber [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know i'm in Fiji now! In Taupo I couldn't get on the crossing, but did a few good walks to see craters of the moon, the volcanic activity center and climbed a mini mountain (far too fast!). I arrived in Nadi yesterday, to a guy at the airport who's job seemed to be to greet anyone looking like a backpaker, stick a shell necklace around thier neck and point them towards the correct pickup for their hostel! After settling in and getting some dinner (freshly caught fish and mash!), whilst being asked [View Full Entry]

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Since my flight had been delayed and I had banked on arranging everything on arrival, I got about 5 hours sleep on my first night (we didn't arrive 'til 2.30am) - not a good start. However, at the airport I had met Peter and Laura, a couple who I'd got chatting to and who were headed in the same direction as me - so decided to book up my next two nights on Beachcomber and Kuata with them (I had a 14 day Bula Pass which meant I could island-hop as much as I wanted over that time). Beachcomber - commonly [View Full Entry]

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Sorry to leave with such a short note, but the ship takes off in an hour or so. Here's some photos. My recruiting trip to Nadi was not as successful as last year's. Damn you Adam and Jesper! The passage took 9 days last year so I should be talking to you in a week and a half or so. See you in Vanuatu! [View Full Entry]

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Am Donnerstag Morgen startete unser Inselhopping. Wir hatten uns einen 14-taegigen Inselhopping-Pass zugelegt fuer die Mamanuca- und die Yasawa-Inselgruppen. Erster Halt war Naviti Island in den Yasawas. Total beeindruckt von der Inselwelt kamen wir beim Resort an und wurden dort mit einem Staendchen empfangen. War total super, aber 14 Tage spaeter sollten uns diese Staendchen sonst wo stehen *g*. Den Nachmittag verbrachten wir dann am Honeymoon Beach, einem feinen - mit Kokosnuessen ueberfluteten - Sandstrand mit kristallklarem tuerkisblauem und perfekt temperiertem Wasser. Nach dem Abendessen war dann Fijianischer Tanz (Meke) angesagt. Wir liessen den Abend mit einem Lagerfeuer am Strand ausklingen. [View Full Entry]

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