Groundhog Day
Back on the road again after a nice 2 week break in Fiji, things have all got so complicated, its very confusing. We've just flown over the International Dateline. This means that today is going to be very long indeed. We got up this morning (thursday), had a bit of lunch, got on the boat at 2.30pm to go to the airport for a bit of a mooch around, before getting on the plane for around 11pm.
However, we land in Los Angeles at 1.30pm. Thursday! Which is before we left the island to go to the airport!? Time travel messes with you mind, and is best avoided.
Anyway - we're not hanging around in LA, we're going straight to San Francisco and by the time we get there it's only going to be about 4pm Thursday. What a spookily long day (just found out flight to SF is delayed too dammit).
Fiji was interesting. We spent the first week at Beachcomber Island. "Are you sure?" said the nice lady at the desk when we booked it. "Of course, looks nice in this leaflet" we said and went ahead. Arriving there we checked in and were shown to our dorm bunks, in a dorm that sleeps over 100. Which would have been OK normally, but the other guests seemed to consist of at least 98 young randy yanks/aussies who were all intent on explaining their life stories to each other loudly throughout the night in the hope of a leg over.
After 5 nights at Beachcomber, yes 5, count them, we headed to another island, 'Manta Ray Island', which had been recommended to us by the Stray gang. And it was great. This time we had a Jungle Bure, which was right on the beach, so we could listen to the waves at night, and right away from any other civilisation on the island - not that there was much. We even had our own 'toilet', which was a composting one, which I don't think I'll go into too much detail but put it this way, it doesn't flush.
Days there were pretty uneventful.... get up, lie on beach, eat, lie on beach, eat, sleep. Although snorkelling was excellent with a reef right in the bay, and we went on a couple of dives which were fantastic. From a spider-fearing point of view, things were not so good. On the first afternoon, I spotted 2 quite big jumping spiders on the window sill which didn't help my afternoon kip. Then one night we headed up to eat, and as we walked up we both noticed an enormous Huntsman spider running along the wall next to us, about 1 meter away, which was enough to make me freeze in my tracks and make a weird noise. Definitely not good with spiders, me. Luckily Jodie was around to help me walk past it.
On the 2nd to last day we were just sitting down to eat when we noticed that the person sitting next to us was Tom from the Stray Bus, excellent! Gave us a chance to catch up on stuff and was good to see the fella.
So as I said, we're going to be in San Francisco for the next few days. Right now I think we're going to go to sleep, and hopefully when we wake up it won't be Thursday 7th December anymore!
However, we land in Los Angeles at 1.30pm. Thursday! Which is before we left the island to go to the airport!? Time travel messes with you mind, and is best avoided.
Anyway - we're not hanging around in LA, we're going straight to San Francisco and by the time we get there it's only going to be about 4pm Thursday. What a spookily long day (just found out flight to SF is delayed too dammit).
Fiji was interesting. We spent the first week at Beachcomber Island. "Are you sure?" said the nice lady at the desk when we booked it. "Of course, looks nice in this leaflet" we said and went ahead. Arriving there we checked in and were shown to our dorm bunks, in a dorm that sleeps over 100. Which would have been OK normally, but the other guests seemed to consist of at least 98 young randy yanks/aussies who were all intent on explaining their life stories to each other loudly throughout the night in the hope of a leg over.
After 5 nights at Beachcomber, yes 5, count them, we headed to another island, 'Manta Ray Island', which had been recommended to us by the Stray gang. And it was great. This time we had a Jungle Bure, which was right on the beach, so we could listen to the waves at night, and right away from any other civilisation on the island - not that there was much. We even had our own 'toilet', which was a composting one, which I don't think I'll go into too much detail but put it this way, it doesn't flush.
Days there were pretty uneventful.... get up, lie on beach, eat, lie on beach, eat, sleep. Although snorkelling was excellent with a reef right in the bay, and we went on a couple of dives which were fantastic. From a spider-fearing point of view, things were not so good. On the first afternoon, I spotted 2 quite big jumping spiders on the window sill which didn't help my afternoon kip. Then one night we headed up to eat, and as we walked up we both noticed an enormous Huntsman spider running along the wall next to us, about 1 meter away, which was enough to make me freeze in my tracks and make a weird noise. Definitely not good with spiders, me. Luckily Jodie was around to help me walk past it.
On the 2nd to last day we were just sitting down to eat when we noticed that the person sitting next to us was Tom from the Stray Bus, excellent! Gave us a chance to catch up on stuff and was good to see the fella.
So as I said, we're going to be in San Francisco for the next few days. Right now I think we're going to go to sleep, and hopefully when we wake up it won't be Thursday 7th December anymore!
posted by KungfuDazza at 10:51 PM
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