Last days on Mana Island
Day 143 – Nadi, Fiji Islands Edit: I concluded my post a bit fast last night, so I added a few words at the end. I’m back on the mainland – by which I mean Fiji’s biggest island. I’m currently uploading my pictures, so they should be ready by the time I publish this. Yesterday…
Fijian dream
Day 140 – Mana Island, Fijis I’m living the dream life on a dream island with white beaches, palm trees, hammocks by the turquoise sea. (You have to forget about the lack of electricity during the day, who needs it anyway, the lack of potable tap water, the cold showers, the absence of ATM and…
Coconut trees
Day 138 – Nadi, Fiji Islands I had a nice, leisurely day. I got up on time for brunch, which I took under the boughs of a flowering bush. Of course, bush means birds, and birds mean that I’m happy not to have hair on my head because I would have felt the need of…
Tropics!
Day 137 – Nadi, Fiji I made it to the tropics, the beach, the sea, the warmth, the… night that has already fallen by the time the plane landed, so I haven’t seen anything yet outside the dark through the hostel shuttle’s windows. I do hear the sea from the terrace I’m writing from, maybe…
Back to the Blue Mountains
Day 136 – Sydney, Australia First, I got to say that nobody replaced the French flopping fish on the upper bunk bed, and I slept so well last night…! So a combination of new gear testing, cheap transport, and stubbornness took me again today to the Blue Mountains. I knew it would be raining, and…
The joys of dorm rooms
Day 135 – Sydney, Australia Until now I have been relatively lucky with my dorms: people haven’t been snoring too loudly, I haven’t been told that I was snoring loudly, and generally speaking, people are polite and try not to turn the light on at inconsiderate hours. So I had to finally have the bad…
Museum of Contemporary Art
Day 133 – Sydney, Australia Today was another slow day. I made pancakes for brunch with peanut butter and tea, then went out with the vague idea of going to the Botanic Gardens (there is an exhibit about carnivorous plants that I haven’t seen yet). I ended up at the Museum of Contemporary Art instead.…
Art Gallery and Botanic Gardens
Day 132 – Sydney, Australia (I’m only half cheating in my title, I did go back to the Gardens after visiting the art gallery. I also rearranged the pictures of Sydney into several galleries.) I started my day with some shopping. I wanted to put a new sole on my sandals, that would have cost…
Slow days
Day 131 – Sydney, Australia So I’m still not doing much of my days. I’ve switched hostel, because I chose the first one for its easy parking and quiet, and the second one for its proximity to the centre of the city. My luggage From left to right: the green grocery bag contains my groceries;…
Sounds of the rainforest
First, I’m finally up to date with the days of my road trip: make sure that you have caught up with all my posts. Second, while I was walking in the rainforest, I tried to record the ambient sound to relive the atmosphere. Try it. This first one is from the Triplet Falls walk. And…