On our last day in Fiji, Eloise and I decided that we couldn't possibly leave without taking a day trip out to experience the famous perfect white sandy beaches of the outlying islands. Unfortunately, and I realise that this isn't what you want to hear, I have absolutely no idea which island it was that we ended up on since we chose it purely based on a photo in the reception of the Crow's Nest and didn't take too much notice of the name at the time. As you can i...

On our third day, we decided to take a trip to the city of Nadi, on the west coast of Viti Levu. Now, I ought to just clear something up at this point. When people talk about Fiji, they generally mean the Fijian island of Viti Levu, which is where the capital city of Suva can be found. Fiji is actually made up of 322 islands, of which about 100 are actually inhabited, but people seem to mysteriously forget this and refer to the island of Viti Levu as Fiji. During...

We made a bit of a fool of ourselves on our first full day in Fiji, wanting to actually save some money by cooking for ourselves and not frittering what little we had left away at the restaurant. Having bought some cans of food while shopping in Sigatoka earlier in the day, we were slightly annoyed upon returning to the room to find that neither of us had thought to buy any matches with which to light the gas hob. While Eloise pottered around preparing everything...

Arriving in Fiji with Eloise in 2002, I was really hoping that nothing would have changed since my last visit. My main memory of getting off the plane at Nadi International Airport had been of stepping out the other side of the customs hall and immediately thinking that I had somehow gone back in time to the seventies - wherever I had looked, I had seen women sporting the most ridiculous, perfectly spherical microphone haircuts. Obviously, this had been something...

One of the only moans I have about the resort is that there are colonies of ants everywhere, although there is very little that can be done about it as it's simply a fact of life on the Islands. I don't know where they all come from - all I have to do is put my chocolate bar down by the sink for 30 seconds and when I go back to it it's swarming with ants. Most of my food seems to end up getting flushed straight down the toilet - cut out the middle man, so to spea...