My fabulous Dave gave me 6 'Ts' for my 60th birthday which I celebrated on Christmas Day last year. The six 'Ts' were:
- Theatre
- Treatment
- Trinket
- Taste
- Treasure and finally
- Travel
The travel was a brilliant trip to Fiji. A place that held special memories for me as I lived there (and in Samoa) for most of my early years until I was 8 years old. It was my first return since leaving there as a child.
You will see from the photos that I am posting on the blog - I will add more to my Facebook page, that a wonderful time was had. Although we were only there for one week, it was so relaxed I felt like I had been away for a much longer period.
The holiday consisted on swimming, lying around reading books, snorkling, experiencing lovely relaxed dinners, early morning swims on secluded beaches, visiting a traditional village and experiencing indigenous culture, visiting a school in the village, exploring some of my old childhood haunts - all in all the perfect holiday!
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| Swimming, one of my most favourite things to do in life! |
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| I am very keen on reading with a cocktail in the other hand as well |
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| Early morning swims, only for the keenest on the boat. |
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| Our early morning swims were fabulous, we were taken to secluded isolated beaches to swim. |
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| Beautiful sunsets! |
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| Relaxed and delicious dinners. |
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| Even managed a visit to an infant school, all the children were on holiday! |
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| The visit to the traditional village on one of the outer islands involved much music, dancing and also a kava ceremony! |
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| Returning to that favourite activity, snorkling was wonderful, the fish were so tame some were nibbling me!! |
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| As well as a great variety of tropical fish, there were beautiful corals to see. |
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| Back to that very comfortable place next to the pool with book in hand! |
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| Dave off to do a little kayaking. |
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| The Captain was a very very successful fisherman - busy catching our dinner! |
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| Dave enjoying kava with the Captain of the boat. |
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| And me, well back to what I like to do best, relaxing in the pool!! |
I am very keen to return one day to Fiji with my siblings and also the 'children' we played with and were friends with. I think we could revisit the places of our childhood and our earliest memories could be shared and this would rekindle the wonderful experiences we had as children. I know for me just visiting the places brought back so many memories for me.
