KIMBO LAISAVE'S BLOG
Boating the Fijian Ferries: advice from an seasoned veteran
Tags: Transport / Fiji
If ever there was a mode of transport that solely runs to the intangible ‘Fiji time’, then boats seem to be number 1! Bligh Water Shipping Limited (BWS) operate a number of services from Viti Levu (Suva & Lautoka) to Vanua Levu (Savusavu), and there after a bus/taxi can get you to Labasa.
BWS regularly revise there timetable, and paper copies of the timetable are available from there offices in Suva, Lautoka, Savusavu and Labasa. They somehow fail to update the timetable to there website (which is well presented by Fijian standards!), so planning a boat trip can sometimes …
Read More >>>"Lambchopped" - explained...'youre my beshst mate you are.....(hic)!
Tags: Tribe / Team / Fijian / Fiji / Drink / Local / Global
“i dont normally do public squeaking as i tend to piss pronounciate my worms” David Brent, The Office
So seeing as the term/noun (i never did pay much attention in English class) or verb/adjective (whatever it is) ‘lambchop’, or ‘to be lambchopped’ is being included in The Fiji National …
Read More >>>..its a Gland problem...
Tags: Tribe / Team / Fijian / Food / Fiji / Local
“you try?”
I looked up to Save standing over me. He went to hand me a freshly cooked piece of meat from the recently ‘opened’ lovo.“What is it?”“try” he replied, and went to offer me the meat again.
I have been in this situation before with Save. His …
Read More >>>My 4845252” 360° Plasma.....Tribewanted TV
Tags: Tribe / Fiji
So the western world sit and compare how great there tv is. Whos is the largest? The better quality? Who spent the most? How loud it is? They are all wrong.
Vorovoro has the best ‘plasma’ screen and its frickin huge, and though there may be no furniture, it …
Read More >>>B-Hula Sia
Tags: Tribe / Chiefs / Fijian / Fiji
“Tui Mali? Can you Hula?”
Face scrunched, i closed my eyes and held my head in my hands worried about how the next few seconds of life on Vorovoro would pan out.
Id previously sat in many Sevusevu ceremonies, happy that protocol had been followed, everyone was happy, ...
Read More >>>Kimbo's Guide to Buying Grog....
Tags: Tribe / Chiefs / Fijian / Fiji / Drink
Kimbo’s Guide to Buying Grog….purchasing narcotics..(legally)...
There are some similarities between the Western World and Fiji, and the ‘protocol of presenting sevusevu’.It is not as alien as you think.
You get invited round to your friends house for dinner, or theyve done a favour for you and you …
Read More >>>Heading Back to Fiji...and possible charity bike ride....
Job Swap – Channel 4…
Moce England, Bula Fiji..(part two)......
Bula Sia Tribe,So i have finally realised that Fiji is more of a ‘home’ to me than England right now…i think something happened on Vorovoro that has changed my life….so after 10 weeks in England i am now …
Read More >>>UK Pen friend needed for 16 year old Fiji girl...
Bula,i spent my last week in fiji living with boat Captain Api and his Family, in Naqai village, just outside Labasa – it was probably the best week i ever had in fiji.
in the letters i have since received from api, one has been included from a girl …
Read More >>>Tribewanted with Vernon Kay on Radio 1
So Tribewanted as just been blasted across the World on the Radio 1 airwaves…Ben popped in for a chat with Mr Vernon Kay today” , discussed all aspects of tribal life, and what life on Vorovoro is like!
Ben and the Project came across really well and generated loads …
Read More >>>Curious about life on Vorovoro???
Ni Sa Bula!
I’m glad your curious about Tribewanted – here’s my take on the experience.
Tribewanted and Vorovoro provide an excellent opportunity to mix with a Fijian community and to learn as much as you want to about Fijian culture and traditions. Being on the island you …
Read More >>>Kimbo on vorovoro......
Watching Tui Mali cry its amazing how fast emotions and feelings run through your own mind. A big chief. A big man. A big gentle man that had opened up his home to hundreds of visitors. Id never meant to make him cry. Struggling to talk, stopping to wipe away …
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