Kia Orana and Bula! Well, as you may know, our Australian experience ended last week. But before heading for home we decided to break up the long journey with a week ijn Fiji and a week in the Cook Islands. Both are island nations in the South Pacific and share a similar indigenous culture - including grass skirts, drumming and loud shirts! We arrived in Fiji in the rain, and it stayed that way for most of the week - cloudy and wet, which was a shame because the main island on which we stayed was very pretty and lush and green with long palm fringed beaches and apparently it had good diving and snorkelling, none of which we sampled as it was too rough and raining. However, the hotel was very posh, being the only
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