SO, how is it like? Eternal sunshine and blue skies, sitting on white beaches, eating lobster all day?
Yeah, right … the climate here is tropical, which means that it pretty much rains every day. When it does not rain, it is just plain humid. This humidity does ruin pretty much everything, it messes with your electronics, clothing and books start to rot, leather just disintegrates , and you feel like being in a sauna .. you sweat pretty much all day. (Don’t I use the word “pretty” pretty often?” The white beaches may exist somewhere in the west of the island, I suspect at those resorts where celebrities stay for 1000US$ a night. There someone must be combing the beach every morning (as I found out, they actually do) … because otherwise the beaches collect a lot of stuff from the sea and don’t look too pretty. Especially here in Suva, beach does basically not exist. Seafood here is less than stellar, unless you get imported stuff from New Zealand. Lobster is expensive as anywhere in the world. I still think that the lobster special at Mo’s Caribbean Bar and Grill in NYC is the deal i
