Pension de la Plage Punaauia

... we were met by native bands and given gardenias to wear. I will say, all of these islands smell wonderful because of the native flowers. We decided to take a tour today to circle the heart-shaped island and found one that actually had air-conditioned buses. It was 40 dollars a person, compared to the ship’s tour for 139 dollars. There is only one road around the island, so we’re glad we waited to book when we came ...

... GREAT pizza at
a joint which probably has the best pizza location in the world.
Daniel's Pizza is right on the lagoon and while you're eating pizza
you look at beautiful ships on the clear blue water – not bad!!!
Daniel is an ex-French pastry chef who now cooks pizzas in paradise
in a wood-fueled stone oven—outside! We share pleasantries in
broken French and English, although there are periods of ...

... I take in the magical starry night on the beach while clearly schozzled and realise that although bored and dying to have half of you lot here for an old knees up - the place still is amazing and for the next 3 days I'll just have to relax and enjoy it - however hard that might be after the last 2 months escapades in New Zealand and Australia.

Drivin'

And so here I find myself today - two days left. I got up this morning hungver as ...

... and energetic dances of Tahiti. It is such a hot and humid place with lay back people that do not seem to be in a big rush. But turn on the music and they perform some very energetic and athletic dances from their culture. This was a special sailing away for the ship as she had been stationed in the Tahitian area for the past 8 years. Thus here name the Tahitian Princess. This was the final sailing from Tahiti for the White Lady. She is not scheduled to return to the ...

... para volver a Moorea. Ya, el ultimo dia, de vuelta a Papeete (y Chez Fifi) para dar una vuelta por el colorido mercado y preparar nuestras cosas para Nueva Zelanda, donde el fresquito nos espera de nuevo. Echare de menos el calorcito de las islas y su gente... aunque no los putos gallos, que cantaban desde las 3 de la manana! By Pato From island to island... and we arrived to French Polynesia, the paradise and the heat, finally! Our arrival was not as ...

... another problem with this to as the boat had broken down and they couldn't do any trips. Ah well, at least we had the sun, infinity pool and some cocktails to take up the remainder day and so we lazed around on our last day in paradise. Did I mention suncream?? Probably not because not putting any on that day I also managed to get royally burnt (I'm still peeling now a week and a half later - sorry about the lack of blogging as well, we're having too much fun in NZ), not ...

Landed in Tahiti to a welcoming of sunny and colourful dressed ladies giving you flowers. Got through customs no problem and as soon as I exited Fred who was picking me up yesterday spotted me straight away somehow. The moment I departed the airport I suddenly realised I was in France. Its was raining heavily and a totally different visual perception to South America. I realised speaking to Fred that the euro wasn't accepted and they use the CPF Franc. 120 Francs ...

... capital, where we perused the famous two-story market, ate French baguettes, and drank the milk from a coconut. That night we stayed at a hotel across the street from the airport because our flight home was fairly early the next day and we didn't want to worry about transportation. That was the perk of the place when we made the resers anyway, but once we got there it was all about the air conditioning, television, unlimited cappuccino machine ...