Like most international visitors to Fiji, we landed in Nadi, the major city on the west coast of Fiji's largest island, Viti Levu (but not Fiji's capital). We stayed in Nadi only one night without seeing much of it, awaiting our early morning flight to the island of Taveuni, a much smaller island (but still the third largest), situated towards the eastern edge of the archipelago.

Still, in the limited time we spent in Nadi (pronounced "Nandi"), we did have several occasions to experience the famed concept of "Fiji Time" firsthand:
- When we landed at the airport, the captain informed us that there was another plane still parked at the sleeve we were to use and that we should remain in our seats until the sleeve was vacated, which should be "any minute now". Thus we learned that in Fiji time "any minute now" means "fifty five minutes".
- When we bought a local SIM card from a small Nadi electronics store, we were told it would take "no more than ten minutes" for them to register the card with the cellular phone company. Thus we learned that in Fiji time "no more than ten minutes" means "more than an hour" (because that day the local internet was particularly wonky, or so we were told).
- When we got the key to our room, we were told that they were not giving us a key to the front door because there was "always" someone at home to open the door for us. Thus we learned that in Fiji time "always" means "sometimes, but most definitely not when you return from your walk around the neighbourhood" (luckily, they were close enough to arrive a couple of minutes after we had phoned them on our cell phone).
- And perhaps most symbolic of all, while we landed in Fiji on 16 January, two days after the daylight saving time (DST) had ended, both our laptop and our cell phones (which were already connected to the Fijian cellular provider) inexplicably insisted that DST was still in effect and were therefore off by one hour from reality.

Accommodations:
- Emma's Airbnb room at lot #10 (presumably) in an unnamed (and numberless) street that might or might not be called Pramhans Road, in Namaka, Nadi, or more accurately "not far behind the MH Supermarket", as the landlady referred to it in the directions she emailed us (1 night; not good at all, but it did have an air conditioner and it did work, which was quite a blessing)

No photos. Primarily because there was nothing much to photograph in the little of Nadi that we did see, but also because the internet is so weak here in Taveuni that we don't think we'll be able to upload any photos at all while we're here.