Bula! Monday, 8 November 2010
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Here we are at the beautiful Sonaisali Island Resort in Fiji, for our second fly-and-flop holiday this year. The resort is lovely, just as gorgeous as it looks in the photos. Despite long-range forecasts predicting rain almost every day, so far the weather has been sunny and warm. Well, fucking hot actually!
Double bonus: we travelled over upstairs on the 747. Neither of us have ever done that before! Very exciting. Much better than downstairs with the rest of the cattle. We want to fly up there always. But where was the bar, the lounges, the grand piano and the blind pianist?
And then when we got to the resort we were put into a bure (boo-ray), when we’d booked and paid for a much cheaper (and even more discounted) hotel room. We’re not complaining! Hopefully no one will notice and make us move.
Today is our second full day since arriving Saturday night. Yesterday after breakfast we wandered around the resort, checking where everything is. Then we lathered up with sunscreen and headed down to the pool for a swim, a drink at the pool bar (Vonu is the beer of choise this trip), another swim, another beer. Gotta love a pool bar, you don’t have to get out of the pool to get a cold beer.
One of the girls at the pool bar like to play ABBA (selections from The Definitive Collection, for those who were curious). We had some songs yesterday, they’ve just been booming out again as I write this. The other Ian was very happy (not!) to hear one ABBA song after another as we had another beer or cocktail. It really is like I wrote on Facebook a couple of days ago – ABBAWORLD is wherever I am 
Better go, it’s time for a swim!
