No Shoes, No Shirts, No Problems!!
Trip Start
Jan 17, 2008
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Trip End
May 04, 2008
Where I stayed
Beachcomber Island,
Fiji
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
So today is a day of rest in Fiji and Joy decided to embrace her religious side (usually very well hidden) & take a trip to the local church, while Laurie declined deciding to stay & chill at the resort. So we all got a boat to the local church in the village, where we were invited to join in with the service. It was in Fijian so we couldn't actually understand a word they said, but we were all moved when the whole congregation cried throughout the service...afterwards our guide told us their choir-leader had passed away and so the service was dedicated to him. Fijian people have wonderful voices & even thought it was a sad occasion they still sang some lovely songs.
We were still on Fiji time meaning they never rush anything which in turn meant that we were late back to the resort & so had to jump straight into our water taxi to head for the boat to bring us to our next island in the Mamanuca's....Beachcomber Island.
Now - we were dreading Beachcomber as it is widely known in Fiji as the 'Party Island' and we had become accustomed to traditional Fijian resorts! So...Beachcomber is an island with beautiful bright blue water and white sand. It is tiny and took us a maximum of ten minutes to walk around the entire thing. They greeted us by singing in Fijian and welcomed us to the island. The island is basically only home to one gigantic hostel. We were very impressed and luckily for us we were put into the 12 bed dorm, rather than the huge 84 bed dorm!!
This resort is a lot more commercialized & westernized than the other islands so far and it's probably classed as the Ibiza of Fiji! Hence, as we found out, is filled with adolescent teeny boppers with their hormones running wild & only one thing on their minds......we'll give you a clue, it's not fly fishing!!
But, good news...dinner tonight was our first Sunday roast since we have started travelling so again this resort is rising in our estimations! There is also a live band which plays at nights & it is the first night time activity we have seen since landing in Fiji! Great stuff & we stayed up way past our normal bedtime in Fiji!
Monday 14th April
Sing along everyone.........'Oh what a night!" lol. We finally cracked at some of the prepubescent youngsters in the middle of the night. It was 3.30am & this blonde, squealy thing & some English twat were drunk in our room, rambling on about the biggest load of ole bull.
Beachcomber
We'd ignored it for about 45 mins, with anger slowing mounting & even managed to bite our tongues as they discussed their recent bedroom antics but it all came to a head when the bimbo squeaked out that the Irish accent is 'gross & digusting'. So Joy, always one to rise to the occasion, promptly squared her shoulders, cleared her throat & found her best culchie accent to tell the cow to 'Have a bit of respect & shut the feck up!!' Mission accomplished, although I think we made a few enemies in the room........Fiji needed a bit of drama anyway!! Ha haSo our last full day in Fiji had arrived & therefore our last chance to catch a few rays! Its amazing how quickly you get used to doing nothing....I think we're gonna miss it! We spent our last night in Fiji chilling over a few drinks & laughing at the limbo competition.
Vinaka Fiji - we love you!! Fiji time...a pretty good invention....time can go forward or backwards a couple of hours or seem to just stand still for days. Nothing is a rush, nothing is a problem. So after 10 days of fiji time we are all pretty much as relaxed and chilled out as we could be!
No Worries - you're on fiji time!!!
So we are now on the final part of our RTW tour - Ready or not, USA here we come!!
J & L
xoxo
Comments
Whatever!! - Where are the photos????
Only Kidding, its all coming back to me like it was yesterday. Again - PHOTOS!!!!