The land where nothing works
Bula!
What's the weather like in Blighty? I only ask as when I touched down in Fiji. it was 25 degrees at 5 am, and got to 37 by lunchtime..ouch! What's that? Is it wet, cold and miserable back home...shame!
so basically, nothing works in Fiji. No golf balls on the driving range, no courtesy transfer to the hotel as their bus was broken. Sizzling beef salad without the beef. Washing machines don't appear to exist as my sheets and towels had that slight greyish tinge suggesting that they had been in use for well over thirty years. Nice!
The heat is absolutely sapping out here, so you can't really do much apart from sit by the beach/pool. It really is tough, but has given me chance to catch up on some decent reading. Good recommendation Simon...Dawkin's God Delusion is superb and well worth a read. I''m now half way through The Holy Blood and the Holy grail, the book that Dan Brown nicked the ideas and plotline for the Da Vince code from and it is equally gripping.
Possible highlight of this leg of the trip was an island-hopping trip to some of the remote desert islands.. We really are talking Robinson Crusoe stuff. We even passed less than 50 yards from the island where they film non-celebrity love island. Wow!
Definite lowlights are the absence of all the scantily clad sun-kissed maidens that I was expecting. The euphemist in me would say that the women out here are big-boned, the reality is that the majority could get contracts playing prop for Hull Kingston Rovers! Equally annoyingly is the traditional Fijian music that is piped everywhere. Kinda nice to be greeted at the airport by a band playing native tunes, but when it follows you around to every public place...not so good. Imagine the Drifters doing country & Western, but with blacked up George Formby's on the ukilele. As grating as the Crazy frog!
And to top things off with a smile, a 5hr delay at the airport to catch the flight to Brisbane. I didn't think that I would be so glad to see the land of the convict. Only two days to go and it looks like Belly, Fred, Colly are all in form. Come on the Poms!
Up the Monty
What's the weather like in Blighty? I only ask as when I touched down in Fiji. it was 25 degrees at 5 am, and got to 37 by lunchtime..ouch! What's that? Is it wet, cold and miserable back home...shame!
so basically, nothing works in Fiji. No golf balls on the driving range, no courtesy transfer to the hotel as their bus was broken. Sizzling beef salad without the beef. Washing machines don't appear to exist as my sheets and towels had that slight greyish tinge suggesting that they had been in use for well over thirty years. Nice!
The heat is absolutely sapping out here, so you can't really do much apart from sit by the beach/pool. It really is tough, but has given me chance to catch up on some decent reading. Good recommendation Simon...Dawkin's God Delusion is superb and well worth a read. I''m now half way through The Holy Blood and the Holy grail, the book that Dan Brown nicked the ideas and plotline for the Da Vince code from and it is equally gripping.
Possible highlight of this leg of the trip was an island-hopping trip to some of the remote desert islands.. We really are talking Robinson Crusoe stuff. We even passed less than 50 yards from the island where they film non-celebrity love island. Wow!
Definite lowlights are the absence of all the scantily clad sun-kissed maidens that I was expecting. The euphemist in me would say that the women out here are big-boned, the reality is that the majority could get contracts playing prop for Hull Kingston Rovers! Equally annoyingly is the traditional Fijian music that is piped everywhere. Kinda nice to be greeted at the airport by a band playing native tunes, but when it follows you around to every public place...not so good. Imagine the Drifters doing country & Western, but with blacked up George Formby's on the ukilele. As grating as the Crazy frog!
And to top things off with a smile, a 5hr delay at the airport to catch the flight to Brisbane. I didn't think that I would be so glad to see the land of the convict. Only two days to go and it looks like Belly, Fred, Colly are all in form. Come on the Poms!
Up the Monty
posted by Ant | 12:41 am
2 Comments:
Well well well .... it seems like your having a ball hey? Fantastic! Hope you have a wicked time without catching anything. I've seen blokes come back as women, but then again that won't be a surpise. :-P I'll try and keep up with your travels as you are bashing your way through the jungle (Fiji's got some really good surf spots, worth a look) - Also, South Africa suck at sport. They managed to throw away a 21-6 lead on Saturday against you guys. Out of bloody order!!! Going to a net session tonight to work on my bowling, need to outperform you by at least 15 wickets next season! Anyway, got to go, @ work! (whatever that means!) Ciao.
It was also 25 degrees here in the morning and has risen to 37. Fahrenheit. It's all gone Ashes crazy over here, can't wait for it to start. Me and Jai will be sitting up with as bottle each at kick-off. They're saying it all rests on the first test ..... have a fantastic 5 (?) days mate!
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