this was a rainy afternoon with heavy showers, where within 10 minutes it turned from sunny, hot and humid into grey, wet, hot and humid. we took a bath with a view on the bay and a nice glass of French Rosé. ***************** un après midi avec de la pluie et un orrage sérieu, après 10 minutes il y avait des nuages et il commençait à pleuvoir, alors ona pris un bain avec vue et un bon verre du vin Rosé de la France. ***************** Regen im Paradies...

here is where we stayed, our "Bure" - Water Villa, ( for those of you who know Norwegian, you will find that this word is also used in NORWEGIAN for "a house built in the water. . . ) our bure was a small villa, with a straw roof built on poles in the water. In our living room as well as in the bathroom there were glass windows in the floor. We would not even have to go down our own outside ladder leading from our terrace into the water to watch the fish, we coul...

Good bye greetings from Auckland, . . . sitting at the Auckland airport waiting for the flight to take us to our next adventure which will be the Likuliku resort on Fidji. . . Yesterday another great sunny day, which allowed us to explore Auckland's turtle island, leaving with one of the small cruise ships on an afternoon harbor cruise. We enjoyed so much being on a board, so we were happy to use the free tickets to Devenport, a cute, small town on the shore, r...

The flight was mostly calm, with some slight turbulences, not to worry about! After another several controls, that we did NOT bring in any fruit etc. into the country, we were greeted by a Katharina who is working for the "Art ig travel" the company with which we booked our trip to Likuliku. We were then picked up by a driver with a van, who drove us down to the harbor, where a speed boat was waitng for us to take us out to lthe island and the resort Likuliku.

lsast morning in Auckland was grey, so it was kind of easy to leave. Our 3 hour flight to Fidji was in the early afternoon. The crew dressed in traditional Fiji costomes welcomed us with Bul, Bula, which means Hello and welcome! The plane was an older 737. We had some nice food and peter was delighted with some Fijian rum. As entertainment did not work properly, so we had a nice chat.