So where did I leave you my fine readers, oh thats right - long ago in mango bay. well, its 4 days later and i am roughly about 2 hours away from where I was in my last post - what can I say, we work on Fiji time here! So Thursday brought about another early start, with more rain than anticipated but generally a nice beginning to what was going to be another lovely, wet day. we were on our way to Uprising resort, somewhere that according to good old lonely planet...

Bula from beautiful Fiji! My flight from aukland was less than impressive I have to admit, with a big screen shoving jackie chan down my throat and air hostesses trying to shove an awful attempt at a chicken sandwich down my throat, let's just say I was glad when we landed! And what a welcome too! Bands playing Fijian music, people handing out flower layes to everyone, it certainly set the mood! And after a couple of trips back and forth between offices to get s...

Ok I don't want to alarm any of you, but I have actually found a warm place in new zealand! With sun and everything! Welcome from the bay of islands baby!After a nice rainy early start escaping aukland for the second time, we arrived in pahia early afternoon to find a georgous little town with a lovely harbour full of sun and warmth and just general prettiness :) incase you didn't realise, I kinda like it here :). Our first stop after a brief tour of the town was...

Hello again north island - how I've missed you so... I'm afriad this entry might be slightly on the dullish side since my trip back up to aukland really was just that - a super speedy non stop journey to get me back to the city of 's*** I promised myself I would never come back here' ready for my bay of islands trip in a couple of days. But still, let's begin. Wednesday brought about a nice batch of de ja vu (think I'm going to be getting a lot of that!) as I on...

Guess what?! I managed to catch my bus this morning! You want the even better news?! I got bloody Kane again as a driver. He has now started to play te damn good morning song twice of people don't shout good morning back to him loud enough. Why havnt I killed him yet??We arrived in kakoura (very possibly spelt wrong!) early afternoon, the new bus load of people seem nice enough but I know for a fact they are all stopping off on the way back up the north island so...