Diary of 28/09/2000 to 11/10/2000

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6th October 2000 Nadi

We are now in Fiji, having crossed the International Dateline and completely wiping out a whole Thursday in the process (wish we could do that to Mondays back home! ). We are in Nadi now, having just left Beachcomber Island after 5 days of top sunbathing! A hard place to describe - but basically the Island takes about 10 mins to walk around, has great snorkelling, and is termed a "barefoot" island i.e. you do not wear shoes or sandals for your entire stay! Even the bar is a sand floor (very tricky after a few Fiji Bitters!) We met some great people there too - all of them we will be meeting again on our tours. Much eating and drinking too - with Tracey winning no less than 3 seperate competitions whilst there - one from the 41st International Crab Race where Tracey had successfully bid for the crab from Russia called (appropriately enough for her) "Vodka" ! FIJI$200 the richer for it! We are off to explore the Coral coast tomorrow, down to Sigatoka and fly out to Auckland next Wednesday.

9th October 2000 Nadi

Just back from the Coral Coast. Another interesting experience involving cheap hostel accomodation, lots of insect friends, and one rather large rat! All at the sunny Vakaviti surf shack! Came home via Sigatoka where the annual Bili Bili races were being held. This is really rather like the school sports day, but for all the staff of the big resorts on the main island of Viti Levu. Also had a minor misunderstanding where we thought we'd stop and help a tourist who clearly looked like he had been run over by the way he was being attended, but was in actual fact a very unfit, very cramped, and very last competitor of the Bili Bili road race!!!! We hope we were of some comfort to him! Then, just as we enter Nadi, we are reminded that things still aren't 100% stable here as we past machine gun emplacements guarding the main road in. Still, the heavily armed soldiers still shout 'Bula' to you with the same chirpiness as anybody else!

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