What is paradise? A beautiful beach, white sand, incredible sunsets,
palmtrees, little hut overlooking the beach, blue lagoons?
BUT most of all SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cause I have just been realizing the past days, since I actually got
here that without sun, paradise is far away.....:-)
Yep, my tropical experience has not turned out exactly as
planned...Fiji has encountered a cyclon, Cook a tropical storm for
the past 4 days...it could get worse though at least we escaped the
hurricane!!!
Now I'm not sure whether you realise what you're options are on a 32
km round island when it's pooring rain and you do not really enjoy a
4 star resort budget?
Aswer 1; read (done! 3 books in 3 days....)
Aswer 2; eat...the kitchen is not quite the place you wanna be in
here!
Aswer 3; get on the moped/scooter which everyone hires to get around
and circle the place 5 times a day, done!
Aswer 4; After being soked, enjoy a cold shower cause there's no hot
water.
Aswer 5; Wait with other 30 guys for a 5 min rain stop to have a look
at the beach.
Aswer 6; You so fed up of waiting, you just go swimming in the storm.
Answer 7; Enjoy a day and evening of total power cut, got another
pasta night awaiting me :-)but with cadle night, very romantic.
Aswer 8; you realise how spoilt you've been in the NZ lodges, back to
basics Asian stuyle ;-)
WELL, that's sums it up:-) but besides that I'm actually enjoying my
time, maybe cause I know I still have 15 days left and bound to see
some sunshine??????????
I'm by the way leaving tomorrow to the other main island about 1 hour
flying - Aitutaki, the most beautiful lagoon in the world and its
suppose to be better whether over there....But the psoitive thing is
that you get to meet a lot of people all in despair of sunshine, well
clouds will do as well as it just stops pooring down...we go out in
the evenings alltogether...till midnight, yep, british atmosphere is
hanging around ;-) Those who know me well sort of imagine how pissed
off I would get with this rain, but to be honoust I'm laughing with
it...how ironic...bragging to you guys how wonderfull it's going to
be and here I am stuck in the middle of the pacific while you are
enjoying 20 degrees back home;-)
I guess things are not always as expected, look at my last days in
Auckland....I met with my cousin Sue for dinner and we had a great
night, unfortunately I was leaving before the WE otherwise she would
have shown me around. Then my last day I just returned from another
Osteopath session, ready to pack my backs and look at CNN to catch up
whether that bloody war has finally started or not when I;m suddenly
invited by my roommate, an indian-Greek guy, yes well you better
guess he looked more greek than Indian ;-)to check out the restaurant
where he was starting to work the next day. He was cordially invited
by the Chef. I thought he would take me to the nearby bistro, but
nope, I had the second best meal ever in NZ in a poshy but very cosy
place owned by an Italian-Belgian guy....the world's a small place.
Well it was a perfect closure before leaving this enchanting country.
well, got to go, I dont know if I'll get back to you before
Sidney....but time is certainly flying byrain or not!
If I cant get to you on time, Dominik I wish you a great 31st
birthday, we'll catch up when I'm back....
Big big hug to my adorable e-mail writers Laura & William and all of
you off course ;-) Scorb
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