Blog Posts from South Pacific Islands

May 3, 2016

French Polynesia, 21 April to 2 May

French Polynesia and in particular Tahiti and Bora Bora are places I’ve dreamt of visiting all my life. The neighbouring island of Moorea was the inspiration for Bali Hai in South Pacific, one of my favourite musicals and it is in these waters that the historic event we have come to know as “Mutiny on […]

April 22, 2016

Rarotonga, 13 to 21 April

“Rarotongo is about as far as you can get from the UK’ – Lonely Planet It is however only 4 hours from Auckland. The group of 15 islands sit just across the international date line so we left NZ on a Thursday and arrived on Wednesday. We therefore bizarrely had 2 Wednesdays and 2 Thursdays […]

February 9, 2016

Bula Fiji, 2 to 9 February

The only word you need to learn during your stay in Fiji, is Bula – which means Hello. We found ourselves saying it a hundred times a day. Everyone greets you with a friendly “Bula” and you can’t help but smile as you reply back. Fiji is an archipelago, made up of 322 islands, 110 […]