time we had finished our booking. The Fijian people really do have a special touch when it comes to being genuinely nice. Later on we ordered a veggie stash pizza and we’re hoping for the best but it was really tasty and a lot better than some of the pizzas we’ve sampled in the UK! We also had a few of our new friend Fiji Gold and when we headed outside to find a table, we found out it was Horizon music night. This consisted of a group of around 5 or 6 people playing guitar and hand drums and an incredibly cute child who had a never ending packet of crisps and ran around being generally cute and did the odd bit of dancing! It was all good fun and our travel lady kept telling Rob off for ordering more beer as she was worried that he wouldn’t get up in 7.30 in the morning!

The Yellow Bus was coming to pick us up to take us to the Yellow Boat at 7.30 am. The boat was a 30 minute ride away and

again it is a very slick operation. They really do the traveller thing well, everything is efficient and everyone is always smiling, such a nice thing to see. We boarded the boat and ended up with seats in the Captain’s room. It was far too hot for sitting outside so it was quite good to be sitting in a nice air-conditioned room up top with the skipper! We were heading to Tavewa, the furthest island from the mainland, and had booked a couple of nights at David’s Place which had been highly recommended by our travel lady. On the boat we met Luke and his Czech wife who had also been staying at Horizon and was heading to David’s Place. He was a rotund retired Belgium man who had a big dislike of Americans and anything digital particularly digital cameras! He was a real traditionalist and wasn’t quite ready for the modern world, he was passionate about photography as it had been his hobby since he was 14! I let all the rude remarks about our wonderful camera pass me by and agreed that film was a