"Bula" from Fiji - Day 63 & 64 (that means Hello)

We left the States with a weird feeling, you know the one when the holiday's over? I know, strange considering we still have just under 6 months of travelling left. Anyway, we got over that really quickly!!

On route to Fiji, we crossed over the Date Line, which means we have lost a day. We left the States at 11:30pm on Monday night (14/07/08) and after a 10 hour flight, landed at 5:10am on Wednesday (16/07/08)

We were met at the airport by Roman, our host from the hostel. We think he took lessons from our Taxi drivers in CT, in fact the Fijians are actually worse! We're in a "beach resort" outside of Nadi at a whopping 7 British Pounds a night.

Spent the first day orientating ourselves. We decided to update the blog which took about 4 hours! Loading up pictures takes sooooo long. We took a stroll on the beach and went into a smarter hostel and had some dinner. We were in bed by 7pm....a little bit of Jet Lag.

Woke up at 5am....but forced ourselves to go back to sleep until a more respectable hour. Had some breakfast and went into Nadi town centre to get a feel for the place. Fijians are a very friendly nation. We took a bus from town- to the marina where all the boats leave to take tourists island hopping (Fiji comprises of over 300 islands) Anyway, we somehow managed to miss our stop / or took the wrong bus - we found ourselves on a bumpy dirt road going through the rural areas. We didn't fell unsafe at any stage.

It's sugar cane harvesting season here so most the farms and roads are a hive of activity. Unbeknown to us, Fiji went through a military coo on 3rd December 2006, and after a lot of pressure from the EU formed an interim government, with hopes of a democratic election in early March 2009.

We've booked ourselves onto an island hopping jaunt. We've done some investigating and have been directed to an island that will have a big screen for the rugby. To be precise, Walu Beach on Malolo Isalnd. Can't wait to watch the mighty Boks after reading about last week's result!

We'll be out of contact for 5 days, so don't bother reading the blog and NO COMPLAINTS! So in the mean time please all feel free to send us some emails with news. We'll expect a full inbox