Thursday, 13 June 2013
Last blog
We've had our last tropical breakfast outside and I'm almost packed... Our last breakfast wasn't quite a relaxed as normal due to one of the lovely women here telling us she'd phoned the airport and there were no flights to NZ today.... There is one though (whew). Last photos from balcony. Off to airport in an hour.
Blooper blog
#1: The sign at the Summit gardens for us said quite a lot!
We (personally, as if our views count…) think that the shopping centres
currently under development won’t add to the place and renewing what is already
wonderful and already here is probably a start. And maybe doing something about
the many half-built and deserted buildings would help (finish them or get rid
of them).
#2: Being the childish people that we are, we couldn’t help but see the national symbol painted on boxes at every roundabout as the “stick and berries”.
#3: When we stopped at the seats in the waterfall during our second trip around the island it was the first time we weren’t approached by locals for money, even though we saw the sign as to how much it cost. Slightly curious, we had our lunch and then left the money on the way out – left it next to the man’s shorts and keys that he’d left behind (what he was doing in the bushes with no pants on we decided not to dwell on…)
#2: Being the childish people that we are, we couldn’t help but see the national symbol painted on boxes at every roundabout as the “stick and berries”.
#3: When we stopped at the seats in the waterfall during our second trip around the island it was the first time we weren’t approached by locals for money, even though we saw the sign as to how much it cost. Slightly curious, we had our lunch and then left the money on the way out – left it next to the man’s shorts and keys that he’d left behind (what he was doing in the bushes with no pants on we decided not to dwell on…)
Phil's boopers
#1: Driving on the right side of the road (quite literally)
was occasionally forgotten… and we had a couple of near misses.
#2: A GIANT (apparently…) bug flew in the car window while we were driving and Philip whacked off his sunglasses – OUT THE WINDOW – in a hissy fit while swatting the bug (he did find them – the sunglasses that is J ).
#3: Philip had a cigarette on the balcony in his underpants! I snapped him on the way back in!
#4: Philip got shat on by a lizard (was on the roof of the balcony – me and the lizard thought it was particularly funny!...).
#5: Philip looking sozzled at the café when we went out but it was actually just the flash making him look like that (s’tru sofficer, s’ust the flash zin meyes…).
#2: A GIANT (apparently…) bug flew in the car window while we were driving and Philip whacked off his sunglasses – OUT THE WINDOW – in a hissy fit while swatting the bug (he did find them – the sunglasses that is J ).
#3: Philip had a cigarette on the balcony in his underpants! I snapped him on the way back in!
#4: Philip got shat on by a lizard (was on the roof of the balcony – me and the lizard thought it was particularly funny!...).
#5: Philip looking sozzled at the café when we went out but it was actually just the flash making him look like that (s’tru sofficer, s’ust the flash zin meyes…).
Sonya's bloopers
#1: “The scream” picture was me for the first 24 hours – and
especially when we first hired a car, when I saw the blister on my foot (see
below), when my glasses broke (again see below…) and when we lost access to the
internet for 12 hours… J
#2: Didn’t bring walking sandals and walked 8kms in jandals… got 2 blood blisters and the world’s biggest blister under my toe!!! We couldn’t buy a needle to pop it and ended up buying a maths set (for the pointy compass) at a store down the road – needless to say the blister popped on the walk home… I couldn’t walk properly for 2 days and had to wrap up my toe and wear sneakers – hence some photos of me at the beach not in bare feet!
#3: I brought white shorts – what on earth was I thinking?! Not the place for white, you look like a dickey tourist and completely impractical.
#4: In the middle of having an angst ridden moment about not being able to access the internet – we lost access here and went out for dinner and it said “free access” only nothing really worked properly – the “lovely” man at the café plonked a lizard on my shoulder (fundraising for the local school). I said in my most demure and polite voice “I DON’T WANT A LIZARD ON MY SHOULDER” but was ignored, so managed to pull out the best winning smile I could manage… ahem….
#5: My glasses broke – I kid you not! Not my sunglasses, my “I’ve got to go to work on Monday and look normal” glasses (sigh). They’re currently being held together by, um, nothing. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep pushing the arm back in until we get home…
#2: Didn’t bring walking sandals and walked 8kms in jandals… got 2 blood blisters and the world’s biggest blister under my toe!!! We couldn’t buy a needle to pop it and ended up buying a maths set (for the pointy compass) at a store down the road – needless to say the blister popped on the walk home… I couldn’t walk properly for 2 days and had to wrap up my toe and wear sneakers – hence some photos of me at the beach not in bare feet!
#3: I brought white shorts – what on earth was I thinking?! Not the place for white, you look like a dickey tourist and completely impractical.
#4: In the middle of having an angst ridden moment about not being able to access the internet – we lost access here and went out for dinner and it said “free access” only nothing really worked properly – the “lovely” man at the café plonked a lizard on my shoulder (fundraising for the local school). I said in my most demure and polite voice “I DON’T WANT A LIZARD ON MY SHOULDER” but was ignored, so managed to pull out the best winning smile I could manage… ahem….
#5: My glasses broke – I kid you not! Not my sunglasses, my “I’ve got to go to work on Monday and look normal” glasses (sigh). They’re currently being held together by, um, nothing. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep pushing the arm back in until we get home…
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
university
We went for one last walk up the road to check out the university (well, that particular campus of the University of the South Pacific - the building in the photo below isn't the uni...). In the photo of me by the sign I was being forced to say "I'm so sorry I dragged you up the hill in the humidity"... :-) Is very humid and rainy today. We've been really lucky with the weather as this has definitely been the worst day. My hair has turned super wooly mammoth! (sigh).
We stopped off at a chicken shop on the way back - KFC no less. We thought it was a local joint pretending to be a KFC but it was the real deal (run by some local Asian lads).
The other photo is of a school gymnasium type place. There isn't a school just here but there are sports grounds and there were loads of school children outside and we could hear them all inside playing some game. One of the incredible things about this place is that buildings can be in the worst condition and still lived in/used.
And that's about it really. Tomorrow we're off. One more blog to go (tomorrow morning): The Blooper Blog.
We stopped off at a chicken shop on the way back - KFC no less. We thought it was a local joint pretending to be a KFC but it was the real deal (run by some local Asian lads).
The other photo is of a school gymnasium type place. There isn't a school just here but there are sports grounds and there were loads of school children outside and we could hear them all inside playing some game. One of the incredible things about this place is that buildings can be in the worst condition and still lived in/used.
And that's about it really. Tomorrow we're off. One more blog to go (tomorrow morning): The Blooper Blog.
Brief kayak adventure
We have free use of the "resorts" kayaks and finally got around to using them today. The lagoon is really wide although not that deep. The rain came so we abandoned the kayaking (that and I confirmed my suspicious about my pathetically weak arms...). We might go for a wander later and look at the university. Very unglamorous photo of me below but is an actual action shot (I got accused of posing would you believe... :-) ) and a shot of the resort from the other side of the lagoon.
Mellowing
Today we are relaxing and mellowing out. We drove into town about 8.30am this morning and went to the supermarket and the markets in town. Then we returned the car to the hire place and got a lift back here.
The photo of the Fiddle Faddles is there because it's funny... and because that's what the last day is often like... The yellow shop is there for Tania :-) We went inside yesterday and it's completely lost in the 1950s and Philip said he was pretty sure it was there when you guys lived here.
The other photos are of me being bamboozled at the tourist market, the food market, the view down the driveway here and Philip relaxing while our room was cleaned (room service, how I will miss you!)
The photo of the Fiddle Faddles is there because it's funny... and because that's what the last day is often like... The yellow shop is there for Tania :-) We went inside yesterday and it's completely lost in the 1950s and Philip said he was pretty sure it was there when you guys lived here.
The other photos are of me being bamboozled at the tourist market, the food market, the view down the driveway here and Philip relaxing while our room was cleaned (room service, how I will miss you!)
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