The Bula festival turned out out to be a funfair with a hell of a lot of bbqs around it which we sampled. We spent Sunday in the beautiful Nadi Bay Resort hostel by the pool, before moving out to our apartment near the school which we were booked to work in. Never fearing a challenge, we were put straight into Class 1, a very unruly group of six and seven year olds who clearly had the measure of their teacher and did pretty much exactly what they wished. Mai...

Well, we paid alot of money to go on the Feejee Experience, we couldn't work out anyway to see the real island and there were alot of activities along the way. The first day we were picked up from our hostel and taken to Nadi to stock up on money, pay our balance. With our spare time we wandered along the street, we went into a shop to buy Mel a long wraparound skirt and were led into a second shop where the owner was settling down to his morning kava and invited...

We spent a very long time in Cancun airport where there was nothing to do and everything was so expensive that our remaining Mexican money stretched as far as a glass of Coke and a tube of Pringles. So we landed late in LA following a very interesting flight with a very brash pregnant airstewardess who thought the best customer care procedures were to patronize her passengers, something that was funnier when it became apparent that she'd forgotten to bring t...