Suva
20 July 2016 | Suva
Penny
Love wandering around Suva, it is a busy dirty town, but always plenty to see and eat. You can get a good size portion of fish and chips or a curry for less than a pound. It is a predominantly 'Indian ' town with loads of shops selling exotic jewellery and wedding outfits, richly embroidered in gold threads and beads. l love wandering around the shops here where you can always find unexpected items such as onions or chutney in the hardware shop or car tyres in a dress shop. Pawn shops rub shoulders with a shop selling plaques, doing photocopying and selling tombstones and you get your ears pierced in the mobile phone shop. The maze of tiny shops is so much more interesting than the shopping malls at home, although they have those here as well. Nearly every shop is belting out music and 'pop' competes with traditional music and bollywood film trailers which run constantly in the video shop doorways to temp you in (although I thought the noise level was quite high enough in the street) add to this the traffic noise and the assault on your ears is beyond belief and am surprised that there is not a high incidence of early onset deafness. At night back at the boat it looks peaceful enough but the docks never sleep and shipping is coming and going all night