Middle-Earth! I mean, New Zealand
Day 153 – Matamata, New Zealand Edit: read all about the waterfall below. Yesterday, in a few hours, I lost quite a few degrees as well, though the humidity stayed high. Like, pouring rain. (Okay, more like Spring showers, but you know what I mean.) I was of course dressed quite warmly for Fiji, which…
Good morning Mister Sunshine (you brighten up my day)
Day 150 – Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands The sun is peaking back today, so I took a few more pictures, notably of the very different palm trees arrayed in the grounds. Except the coconut palm tree, I don’t know their name, but they are striking in their differences. (And there are different species of coconut…
Days of rain and rest
Day 149 – Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands So, it seems that I haven’t written in a while! I’m almost at the end of my stay in Pacific Harbour. The resort I stay at is very nice, as I wrote in my last article. Of course, I slowly discovered that the services it offers outside of…
Pacific Harbour
Day 145 – Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands I blended quiet, last minute and activity today. I had decided to go to Suva, Fiji’s capital city. For that, there is a regular bus every two hours that I can book downtown Nadi -at the bus terminal where the local bus drops me. So, easy. While waiting…
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…