As you can imagine, our time in Fiji was pretty hectic. There's so much to do in beach paradise, that its hard to fit it all in between the sleeping, eating, reading, swimming... and generally slipping into 'Fiji time'. This was a concept of time quite different fro anywhere else - 8am would translate to mean "any time I feel like it, if you're lucky, before lunch". We found this difficult at first, but soon realised that it made perfect sence - it was ...

Alex described New Zealand to his family as "like England on steroids" and there is some truth in this. The scenery is breathtaking - very lord of the rings-esque and the people are obsessed with jumping off things. However we were disspointed that we saw no sign of either a hobbit, or Bret or Jermaine. Not that we could appreciate the beauty of N.Z when we stepped off our plane from Japan. Neither of us had slept and had resorted to our revision diets ...