Today we decided to walk into town for lunch. The day was just as muggy as yesterday but we needed to do something. The walk was just over an hour long and when we got to the little town, Nadi was still too far away, we looked over each of the available places to eat. The cheapest was an Indian place but it didn’t look very nice, the Fijian place was closed so we settled on a really nice looking place that said it did Indian food and had Indian people eating th...

Today the weather was really muggy. It was cloudy and not very pleasant to sit outside. We spent most of the day reading books, playing on the computer and typing up the blog. I managed to read two books – one being the 4th in the black tower series by Stephen king, which was totally weird. The day just didn’t lend itself to anything other than lazing around and we were running very short of funds so laze about was what we did.

Today we had a relaxing day and did our Pilates video for some exercise. This evening we decided to go to Smugglers for dinner but just before we left I found a group of Fijian’s sitting on the floor at Mama’s playing guitar. I went over to see what they were doing and it was another Kava ceremony. I joined in the singing and had a couple of bowls of Kava before promising to come back after dinner. We went to the Smugglers for dinner as the guys from the Kav...

Today we decided to try and walk to Nadi town. We wanted to get some exercise so we had to turn down all the offers from every passing car for a lift, and most cars stopped to offer. AS we wandered along Vincent spotted the plant with sensitive leaves that folds up when you touch it so I found each one in the verge and stoked one leaf until it closed up. Magic! Then we went over a little stream and as we looked down we saw mud skippers bouncing along the surface ...

The place we are staying at is called the Tropic of Capricorn but everyone round here calls it Mama’s. The owner is a lovely old lady called Mama who looks after all her guests like they are her kids (or maybe grandkids) as they are mostly backpackers and young, but is also fearsome to people such as taxi drivers and staff who may try and take advantage. It was the first time we had gotten a fair price on the meter from an airport to a hotel in our whole trip w...