The day of extreme travel to Sweden began with a lay-in. To 9am to be precise. I say extreme travel, not because it involved jumping off a plane or diving under the sea but because we had to get to Stanstead Airport - the opposite side of London. And all those who know London transport would describe it as extreme. Cedric and I (mostly Cedric and his uncanny knack with London transport) worked it out and we figured we would need to walk to a train station, tak...

San Francisco time!! Up nice an early to bring order to the bombsite that was our room, even though we had been in it for only two days!! I have to say though, I thought I was messy but these girls put me to shame. My mess x four girls = one hell of a mess! We decided to take a taxi to the Greyhound bus station as we didn't necessarily want to be lugging all our stuff around LA and god only know where we'd end up. The journey took about an hour and there is on...

Sorry this is a bit late. Time tends to fly when you're having fun. This is an extended version of the one sent a month ago. I landed in LAX in Los Angeles absolutely shattered. Who knew that Fiji was so far away from America?! I thought it was just a quick nip over a bit of water. Turns out the Pacific Ocean is a bit bigger than originally presumed. So after 10 an half hours (yep, my eyebrows raised too!) I landed on American soil just wanting a good wash. How...

Sorry folks, this is going to be a big'un, So after a relatively uneventful flight listening to music and watching Yogi Bear (shocking film) I landed in Nadi airport greeted by a singing band of locals with brightly coloured shirts and flowers in their hair. I almost felt embarrassed that they took so much trouble but as you'll find out later in the blog, it becomes a regular occurrence in my travels in this country. I met a Scottish girl on the way who lost her...

And so it's the beginning of the end for my time in the great New Zealand. We got to the ferry terminal, checked in and had a good reminisce on the good times we had in the last month before boarding. By the end of our stories we were rolling around laughing, even though we had all been there and heard the stories hundreds of times before. The crossing was fairly boring with the usual kiddies animal-loving Disney films (Cuba Gooding Jr had scooped low with his l...