Nadi The hostel Drift Inn is run by a family consisting of Junior, his wife Donna and their kids. They also have some staff that, according to Junior, wish they were part of the family. Donna and Junior opened up Drift inn a obout 5 years ago, and a couple days before I got there, they opened another establishment, The Drift inn 2. This was where we were heading for BBQ, and the place was located right by the beach. The family was already in process of openi...

Sydney to Nadi, Vitu Levu Going to the airport in Sydney I realized one thing that scared me a little. If i had been in Norway, the thought of going to Fiji would have excited me so much that I would not have rested for a minute the week before departure. As I was sitting in the train, actually being on the way to paradise, I did not feel anything. I was glad to be on the road again, but I guess I was so used to seeing amazing places that I did not need to f...

"Visiting a friend" Wollongong is about two hours by train south of Sydney, and I barely caught the connecting train as I came in to Sydney Central Station. The train ride south was very nice, with large tropical forest on both sides. When I arrived at the Wollongong Station I went outside to wait for Paul. As I was waiting a man in his early twenties, already ruined by his drug abuse tried to get on a train without a ticket, and the police were tryi...

Sydney When I get off the train at Roseville Station, Jiby is there to meet me. For those of you who have not red my posts from Vietnam, I met Jiby on our tourist boat in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. We had some good talks, and decided to hang out a little more. So when we got back from the trip the two of us and Pedro from Chile had dinner together. During the bus trip from Hanoi to Vinh, the bus pulled over at a food court so we could eat. And out of nowhere Jiby c...

"First flight since St. Petersburg" When I went to the airport around 1 PM, Matt joined me. My plane left around 8 PM, his the next morning. He was spending the night at the airport, just like I was intending to do the day before. When we arrived we went to the information desk to collect out free Wi-Fi passwords. It amazed us that there was only one information counter in every terminal. The buildings were huge, and you had to go to the center of ...