South Sea Island Magic: the beach, orchids, and dancing in Fiji

February 26, 2015

It is a quiet Saturday in February. I am sitting in the sweet garden of a thoroughly charming backpacker hostel …

A Very Small Place in a Very Big World: Fiji’s Navala Village

February 10, 2015

14 December 2014. There’s a notion going around that the world is a small place, brought about no doubt by …

January 26, 2015

Sunday 7th January 2014. We’ve heard about the Samoan church choirs and how wonderful they are. It’s Sunday, our only …

January 19, 2015

5-12 December 2014. We are sheltering under a banana palm in the desperate hope that its broad leaves will protect …

January 5, 2015

5-12 Dec 2014. In the early hours of December 5th we boarded a Fiji Airways flight from Hawaii to the …