Back From Fiji with a few photos

July 31, 2010 by Avalon
Filed under: Life in New Zealand

Ok – so Ive been back a week now. but it took a while to settle back in, and then I came down with an awful head-cold. Thankfully I still had some UK Sudafed tablets, so its all dealt with – cos you now can’t buy them in New Zealand.

I had a wonderful time. In fact the only downside of the whole week was that I went for a very quiet relaxing break, and unfortunately so did half of Australia because it was the school holidays there. With their children. So it wasn’t exactly as quiet as I was hoping. But the hotel was wonderful, the spa beautiful, and thankfully the room I was in was away from the pool area where the children were, and I basically had my pick of loungers and umbrellas to sit on the beach with.

Fiji is in no way cheap to stay in for a good hotel – and there are plenty of good hotels. And this time of year seems to be a good time to go: its still hot but not too hot, and theres a nice mid morning and afternoon breeze which makes lunging on the beach just truly wonderful.

At first I was very conscious of the high price of everything. After all money is a bit tight right now and I didn’t want to go crazy, but after a day or two I did relax and decide that I could cope with a bit of rampant overspending in the search for some recovery time. It really worked.

So- heres a few pictures of Fiji – I didn’t got go exploring – or do anything other than relax, order room service, laze on the beach, and hit the spa.

Oh – and hubby got major brownie points for rearranging his work and booking a surprise flight out to join me on Thursday night.

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