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Travel Blogs from Ovalau Island
I can smell fish
We came to Levuka to stop over for a night and then head back to the mainland, but have now been here for nearly a week. We've been hanging around with Wayne, an English schoolteacher from Milton Keynes and Amelie his French girlfriend who came over from Leleuvia with us. They're just finishing their round the world trip, so it's been great to hear …
Strictly No Eating of Peanuts and Peas in this Bus
It's our last day in Fiji today, and tomorrow we head to New Zealand (where hopefully this blog will get uploaded). It feels incredibly strange to be leaving a country where we have been for nearly two weeks and not to be heading home. It’s exciting, but strange.
Last post we said we were at Raintree Lodge in Colo-i-Suva.The next …
Fiji Time
Bula! "Fiji time" is just what we needed to wind down! No one keeps a schedule here and if you want a bus or ferry boat they may or may not get you somewhere! We just spent 4 days on a tiny island called Caqualai (pronounced Thangalai) where the Methodist church set up a camp type resort. There were 15 young backpackers and a couple of us old …
Getting to Ovalau
The weather didn't look like it was going to improve anytime soon, and it was affecting the ability of the divemasters to take us to the "good" dive sites, so I decided to leave Nananu-i-Ra a day early and try my luck on Ovalau, in Levuka. I left on the morning boat with two other guys: Kit, the serene young round-the-world traveler, and some other …
The weekend of wonders
... tea and eating biscuits, it was crazy and special all at the same time. Julia, Georgie, Miranda, Mia and I all went to bed after the tea and Sarah, Ronny, Anthony, Rob and Alun did an all nighter! Those crazy kids. After about 3 hours sleep we were all up to watch the ‘phenomenal’ sunrise that Ronny had been banging on about all evening, only to find him fast asleep on the porch when we all finally woke up. When we got to the beach to watch it, it was ...