New Zealand, Day 9: Wellington

After failing to find any sort of walk in the National Park due to a complete lack of signs (it’s like they don’t want us to use the National Parks!), we decided to head on to Wellington, about 170 miles to the south. Then, it took far longer than it should have to book a campsite for the night, only to be told that we actually didn’t need to bother booking. And I discovered that city driving is the WORST!

Fiji, Day 4

Today we went for a day trip to Suva, Fiji’s capital city. We went by bus, which takes about 2 hours so there was a film on for the duration of the trip – it was unsubtitled Bollywood, so trying to work out what was going on passed the time. Normally, I would have wanted to look at things out of the window as I’m so far from home and what I’m used to, but the rain was coming down so hard that I can’t see anything further away than the edge of the road. Not being able to see wasn’t much of a problem with the Bollywood distraction, but the difficulty came when over half way there it was unwillingly revealed the the rain was now so bad that Nadi (the other city) was flooded and so there would be no return bus that day.

Day 32 – Christmas Eve

Day 12

Day 12 started with a walk up Castle Hill, which took around an hour in total from leaving the guest house to getting back for a much needed shower.

The Australian Museum

Today is the start of an Arts Festival in Sydney, so for one night only the Australian Museum was offering free entry to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, and it’s skeleton exhibition.