After spending the last few days in Fiji drinking beer (that's what happens - you walk down the beach, some of the locals invite you to join them for a beer and you stagger home several hours later) it was time to prepare for the journey to Los Angeles. Thanks to the International Date Line, this meant leaving Nadi at 10:50pm on Tuesday, flying for just over ten hours, and landing at 1:10pm on Tuesday. I worked out that Tuesday lasted 44 hours, so the jet lag...

[N.B. This is the second entry from Fiji, I've done two today, so click on "NADI" on the right of the screen if you haven't read the other one first] After a short six-hour sleep to recover from the Feejee Experience (and a few drinks with Doug, Steph and Bola afterwards) it was time to leave the Nadi Bay Hotel again and catch the Awesome Adventures bus to the marina at 7:30am. Things started to go wrong from the start -...

I should really start this by saying "Bula", which means "hello", if only to be the same as every other person who's ever been to Fiji. Upon arrival at Nadi airport I was greeted by the usual three blokes with guitars, who are employed by the tourist board. They work in shifts, sleeping on benches in the airport until a flight comes in, even if it's at 3am, then they start singing.Fijians are extremely friendly, possibly beating the pr...

First of all, apologies for the lateness of this update...  Internet access in most of New Zealand is pretty shocking.  In most places you're limited to coin-operated machines that swallow $2 coins every 15 minutes and which are deathly slow, if they work at all.  Since I'm now in Auckland, there are proper internet cafes...This will have to be a quick run-through of the last couple of weeks, since I'm flying to Fiji in a few hours.&nbs...

It's been a while since the last update. Sorry about that, but I'm not going to take all the blame. As was the case with the last update, I've mainly been staying in areas where there is precious little internet access, and what there is is either too slow or depends on coins being shoved in every ten minutes. I'm in Wellington now, a.k.a. The Big City, so I can actually bring this up to date now... After retracing my steps and heading back up the east co...