A new week began with a trip to Taronga Zoo which meant a train into central Sydney and then a ferry to the zoo. It was tiring walking around the zoo as it was hilly and bloody hot, as evidenced by the fact that most of the animals were asleep in the shade…I wish I could have done the same! The gorillas were awesome, a baby one tried to go outside but its mother grabbed it and pulled it back inside, then the baby sat with its back to its mum having a strop li...

The morning after the wedding I woke up on the sofa fully clothed at 6:30am just as the world cup draw had finished, which I had a vested interest in. Before I could be bothered to work out which games I'd got I knew I had to actually go to bed for a bit. The draw was the hot topic of conversation at the local coffee shop where we all sat with Kev & Jane's friends while taking the dogs for a walk. The highlight of the day was also football related, going to...

Wedding day! I put my borrowed suit, shirt, belt and tie on (obviously a Wednesday tie having been from my uncle) which thankfully fit as I had been worrying in Fiji that due to a heavy diet of beer and crap food over the past 6 weeks my ever expanding waistline meant it wouldn't. The official photographer for the day arrived wearing a scruffy polo shirt, shorts and boots which I could let go for now but surely he would be getting changed into something more ap...

Having not got to bed until 3am again I was not impressed with the tribal breakfast drums being beat at 8am. Indeed I was very tempted to get up and shove the drum up whoever's arse it was sideways. After breakfast it was time to leave the island, and Li and Dani behind, for a night anyway as they would be in Nadi tomorrow. Back in Nadi with my bag dropped off at the hostel me, Mel and Ros decided to go to the town markets for souvenirs and fruit. Well I got th...

After a quick sunbathe in the morning it was off to Natandola beach with Mel, Ros and Fuyuki, the latter having generously offered to pay for the boat and taxi to the beach, presumably as a thank you for going with him. We arrived at the beach and it was a beautiful day and we found a secluded spot at the end of the beach where there was a clear blue lagoon. As Fuyuki shuffled off to the toilet at the 5-star Intercontinental Hotel Resort in his thong to arrange...