The Read World Tour

Fiji was amazing. We turned up not knowing what to expect and the first day / night could have easily put us off.

After a long delay due to industrial action our flight left NZ and arrived in Nadi 5 hours later than planned. We were then greeted with touts, taxi drivers and leaches who wanted us to forgo our hotel transfer and even our reservations to go with them! Weird. We waited for 20 mins though and eventually our bus came to take us to West's motor inn for the night. The area was horrible, really run down and dirty but the hotel was a nice surprise. Very clean and everything we needed so we got some food in the hotel restaurant and retired for an early night as the humidity and thunderstorms raged outside!

Next morning was overcast and humid. We were collected and taken to the neighbouring town of Lantouka where our ferry was wating! Well ferry is a loose term. A boat with an outboard motor took me, Karen, 3 staff members and some supplies on the worst journey of our lives....

2 and a half hours of up and down, in the open water, in a storm. No turning back, Karen was in shock, crying and unable to talk. I was shtting myself also as the boat pitched and rolled like a rag in a washing machine. Only when we got close to our island did the weather let up and then we saw our island...Waya. It was so beautiful but we couldn't appreciate it straight off as I checked in and Karen ran off to hurl!!!

The next two days in our Bure were luxury... Great food, hour long massages, swimming in the crystal waters and meeting nice people over a beer or two...Pretty cool and then it was all over.

Got a proper boat this time to Nadi and chilled in preparation for the flight to the USA.

Loved the Fiji experience and would go back at the drop of the hat providing we could spend more time in the Yassawas islands.