Bula Bula - Bula is a cool word it mcan mean anything in Fijian. Its literal translation I believe is WELCOME, but people use it in song, thank yous, ordering food! Its a wicked little saying. Anyhow I left Nadi and caught a open windowed bus to the harbour, who did I meet on this bus, none other than Tom - the guy I had dinner with last night. Hes a really chatting, upbeat kindof guy, so we got on like a house on fire. I had bought a Bula pass (you see theres t...

Bula and welcome to My Fiji page! Flying into this place, you could see from the plane how stunning it looked straight away! Frst stop Nadi, the travellers capital of Fiji, although Suva is the Capital. Now I ooked this Coup business up on the Internet and it said only visit is extremely necessary! What a pile of rubbish! There is absolutely nothing to be scared of in Fiji, I was dropped at a Kebab house and ATM for 40 minutes and was chatting to the locals in n...

So it was back to Auckland for a few days to see Emily, and relaxbefore heading to Fiji. Emily is working at a fashionable bar, which we visited for many a glass of wine one night, I also got to see Seamas and Catriona again, before they left. Bumped into James again. And the highlight was bumping into Rachel from the South Coast and going for drinks with her, Hemel and Berko, plus Emma Morgans (from Home) Brothers Girlfriend! How small a world is this? We went f...

So it was goodbye to Chistchurch, not before having a the best Indian Meal I have ever tasted in a place called two Fat Indians. I had a Lamb dish specialised in this restaurant only. and it was gorgeous. The Lamb here is so tasty but the way it was cooked too, I would go out on a limb and say that was the best curry i have ever tasted. The short trip up to Kaikora was very uneventful, and the highlight was when I got off the bus, to see Kimberley still at the h...

"This is Edoras, home of Theodean, King of Rohan, who's mind has been overthrown by Sauraman". Yes it was time, for the Geek that is David Betts to leave all cool people and return to his geeky ways. A trip to Edoras - that will do nicely! And not only a visit, a personalised tour. A jeep picked me up, and had just three other people on the tour. Most of the Rohan shots in Jacksons Lord of the Rings were filmed here, in a National Park in the middl...