Gorgeous Palm Springs Plus An Overtired Single Mum
Gorgeous Palm Springs and an overtired single Mum We leave San Diego mid-afternoon for our next family travel journey and decide to drive to Palm Springs. We arrive and it is just starting to get dark. We have no idea Gay Pride Festival is on this weekend, so most reasonable hotels are booked out. Luxury […]
SeaWorld San Diego For Kids
SeaWorld San Diego For Kids We are having a great time on our new adventure – a road trip through California and into neighboring states. I am glad we have a pass to access SeaWorld San Diego. This is part of a City Pass we purchased for Disneyland. This is nice since park entry is about […]
Legoland And Our Road Trip Through San Diego Begins
Legoland, San Diego We have just had the most delightful few days in Los Angeles and the family we stayed with has 2 Mums and 2 kids as it was a chance for us to share our lives as they shared their home before our road trip through San Diego began. For my son, it […]
California Adventure Park Is Awesome
California Adventure Park Luxury travel experts advise: Disney land is a very busy place. While on a family travel in California, we advise you get here as early as you can to beat the queues. By doing this, we figured out that our single parent travel would be more interesting, allowing us more time to […]
Last days at Savusavu Island Fiji
Last days at Savusavu, Fiji The last two days at Savusavu, Fiji have been just wonderful. Over the last couple of weeks, we have made friends with ‘Dave’ and ‘Aoife’ from Ireland. ‘Dave’ is training for a triathlon in Canada and is super fit. So he kindly takes my son out so I can catch […]
Faces of Tacilevu – Savusavu Island Fiji
Faces of Tacilevu – Fiji Here are some of the new friends we got to know in the village of Tacilevu. They are the Faces of Tacilevu – Fiji. I love these photos, regardless of the fact that I am only using a small instant camera. I, however, understand that I will need to get a […]
Random Acts Of Kindness In Fiji
Tacilevu Village receives donated goods Thank you to all who helped donate! It is Saturday and it has been raining for days here on Savusavu Island but its time for our first major Random Acts Of Kindness. Over the past two weeks, we have been receiving monetary donations to help a village about 40 km […]
What is a Lovo ?
A day on a Fiji farm for a 7-year-old Australian boy We are awake at 5:30 a.m. on the island of Savusavu Fiji to catch the early bus to the foothills. Our friends ‘Marylyn’ and ‘Dave’ (50/50 Australian & Fijian) own rural property. Their caretaker ‘Julian’ and his sweet wife ‘Lele’ are organizing a ‘Lovo’. Now a ‘Lovo’ […]
Hidden Naselesele Waterfall on Savusavu Island Fiji
Hidden Naselesele Waterfall (on the road to Bua) We are house sitting on the island of Savusavu in Fiji, n Sunday we decided to ‘find a waterfall’, so we hopped into the hire car – that we hired thanks to the knowledge of some luxury travel experts in the region – and headed through the […]
Less Is More – So Poor Yet So Happy – A Fijian Village
Less is more – so poor, yet so happy The weekend has arrived on Savusavu island, and it is time to explore the unknown, so we hired a little 4WD vehicle where we learn a valuable lesson about how locals can be so poor yet so happy. We hope to find a beach in a […]
Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town
Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town Yesterday we woke at 5:30 a.m. in preparation to walk to town, and get the early bus to Labasa (pronounced Lambassa). We have been house sitting and are part way through, based in Savusavu. Our friends Marilyn and Dave who own a farm here were also on the bus […]
The Joy Of Giving To Those Who Can Never Repay
The joy of giving to the kids who are less fortunate than us One of the joys of staying for a while in one place is that you become a traveler and get to know the locals, shop at the marketplaces, make friends with your neighbors, and other people visiting the area as we did […]