Greetings from Fiji! I have just returned from a four-day tour of the main island of Viti Levu, which was brilliant. Fiji is a wonderful place and I love it! I only wish I could have stayed here longer. My tour concentrated on showing you the village life in Fiji and took you to local sights rather than tourist spots.On day one we first stopped off at the Nadi markets and I was struck by how much it resembled India! I later found out that there are approximately ...

Well, it has been a while! I have been busy making my way down the East Coast of Australia without a moment to breathe and now I am in New Zealand. The last month has been very busy but lots of fun. There have been many highs but a few lows that inevitably come with travelling alone. So I'll go back to 6th May where I took a 3-day trip around Fraser Island. I was lucky enough to have a wonderful group to travel with. We were all around the same age or older s...

Today I am on Rainbow Beach, a lovely little town, named so because the sand here is multi-coloured. Rainbow Beach is the gateway to Fraser Island, which is the largest sand island in the world, listed as a World Heritage site. Fraser Island is 125km long and over 160,000 hectares in area and the only way to get around it is by four-wheel drive. I am joining ten others tomorrow where one of us will drive a little van for three days to explore the island and we...

I have been in Australia for a week now and I absolutly love it. There is so much to do, the landscape is beautiful and the people are full of energy and warmth. This all helped me immensely when, on arrival last Saturday, after 24 hours of travelling and little sleep, I discovered that all my luggage had gone missing. It was not the best start to my new adventure, especially as I really hadn't packed for that eventuality, so I felt a bit stranded with pretty...