Blog to follow if we sober up enough.............(never gonna happen!!)

After spending the previous day deliberating on which of the other islands to visit for our final three days in the magnificent Fiji, eventually we reached the decision of Robinson Crusoe Island and we were not to be disappointed. On the bus ride to the jetty we met the people we'd be sharing our accomodation with on the island, unfortunately they were Irish but luckily enough our Fijian driver spoke both English and Paddy so was able to translate for us - to be ...

Day two on the big green bus began with us waking early only to find we were to be joined by 5 bloody Aussies - bearing in mind we'd just spent 2 months in their country did they really have to follow us! Once again though we were lucky and we got a nice bunch of people. We set off into the jungle to start our 3 hour trek through dense vegetation and waded through 2 miles of fresh water streams which by the end of it we were absolutely shattered! Luckily wh...

BULA EVERYBODY!! We said our farewells to Oz and headed to the (what we hoped!) would be the sun filled islands of Fiji. We arrived at Nadi airport at 19:00hrs Fiji time and were immediately greeted by a band of Fijian guitarists dressed in floral attire belting out jazzy tunes which made us forget our woes of leaving the fantastic Australia behind. As we stepped out of the terminal and headed to our hostel the warm air hit us in the face and even tho...

An early start was upon us the next morning as we were to be touring The Great Ocean Road - unfortunately we had probably chosen the cloudiest day since us being in Oz to take the bus tour. The day began at 7am and it was quite a while until we reached the GOR and even though we were dressed for Siberian weather conditions the views were still quite spectacular. We saw the infamous 12 Apostles and visited a koala retreat where we saw many of ...