most battered taxi either of us have ever been in! It was a dinosaur of a vehicle and the cream pretend leather interior really had seen better days, but it went and got us back to Horizon without a hitch, so we can’t complain too much. I think it was starting to dawn on us that this really was the first so called ‘poor’ country we had been to in long time, well in fact the first in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand are very rich, white influenced countries so I guess it was good to see a truer representation of Southern Hemisphere / Polynesian culture.

The next day we got the bus back into Nadi, this time armed with passports! We had a stroll around a little market and bought a lovely little salt and pepper bowl set. The crafts were fantastic and again I could have spent a fortune! We then headed to the bank and were a one point getting rather worried about the length

of time the cash advance was taking. The lady had to phone Australia then get the Australian branch to phone Smile in Manchester. The lady was very apologetic but you could see her getting pretty fed up of the hold music. Finally she came over and asked Rob for some security details, thankfully he passed the check and we had got our advance. It is amazing to think that the bank didn’t charge us anything to do this advance, we must have been in there for at least 20 minutes - here’s hoping that the UK banks take a leaf out of their books! We spilt the cash between us and headed off to the internet as the internet at the hostel was virtually non-existent. Then we took the bus back to the hostel and were delighted to share it with a whole bunch of school kids! They were all really cute and polite so it wasn’t a hassle. Once we arrived back we arranged our travel with the lady on the travel desk. It has to be said, she was a wonderful women, so incredibly helpful and she felt like a real friend by the