After becoming qualified open water divers which I would recommend to anyone with a spare week on their hands and nothing to do, we took a bus back to Suva to receive some good news. A quick check on internet banking revealed we had less than 200 pounds left. It would appear it's time to fly to New Zealand and start working. Kat spent the next day on the internet applying to some of the schools in Auckland for a teaching position. She sent her...

After a bustling four day capital city tour it was time to check out another Fiji beach and backpackers resort. Volivoli beach resort offered us a deal if we sign up for their open water PADI certificate we can get free accommodation for four days. Something for free always gets a backpacker excited so we took a bus up to the north of viti levu island and signed up for the dive course. Fiji is a cheap place to learn, we paid them 130 quid for the course mater...

Competition results So the votes are in, the lines are closed and the results have been verified by our official adjudicator. The answer to the the Fiji mystery location was: Celebrity Love Island And the winner of the Fiji mystery location competition is: Julia Oli: a very close second place, your email arrived only hours later. Congratulation Jules, your prize is to have your name featured on our esteemed blog, and you will receive an additional prize i...

Its competition time for coopertrooper blog fans. This blog is going to be a little more interactive by involving you. We turned up to a hostel in Fiji this week and felt we had seen this all before. And we were not wrong. Check out the pictures we took and if you recognise where we are staying, send us an email with the answer in the title of the email. Send ya emails to [email protected] Of course taking part in a competition is not about the winning, its ...