A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Fiji, Fiji by TravelPod blogger Hess. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Celeb love island As I write this in my paper journal, to type up when I get to California, I am lying in a deck chair over looking a cream coloured beach, being lapped by oxford blue, turquoise, crystal clear waters as far as the eye can see, with palm trees swaying overhead. Its a hard life. I arrived in Nadi, which is really a stop over town, for tourists on the way from the airport to the islands, where I was met by Julie and a 15 month old Emma. (Julie is the wife of Mike, David’s (as of David, Anna, Oliver and Hester in New Zealand) nephew.. right got the connection). I spent a couple days wondering around in the humidity, happy to be back in a developing country and again the subject of mild curiousity. I booked to stay one night on an island named "Robinson Crusoe Island" which was meant to be a young crowd and party island. It was fun, but tried a bit too hard to be 'a party island'. The staff put on a great show of island and fire dancing for day trippers that had come over from the mainland where they were staying in 5 star luxury and comfort. That night we gathered around a fire and sampled Kava (more on this later) which is a mild narcotic drunk by Fijians from sometimes as young as 8 or 10 and is the ground roots of the Yaqona plant. It tastes of muddy river water and is meant to leave your tongue tingling and after a ...