Grand Pacific Hotel ....Suva, Fiji

That grand "old lady" of Suva, Fiji, the Grand Pacific Hotel, had provided accommodation for many years for travellers who appreciated the fine service offered. Sadly, this once grand hotel has now become a vacant derelict building. In this respect, it is most pleasing to hear that the Grand Pacific Hotel has now been handed back to the Fiji government with the aim of restoring her to her former glory!

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The Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, Fiji

This pix was taken on the way home to Chilliwack..Pete stayed on in New Zealand .. so it was Mervin and I and a bunch of friends we met on the crossing...they were all going to Vancouver....Some were Canadians returning and others Aussies and Kiwis starting an adventure to Canada etc.....as you can tell the Australian gal seems kind of popular...We were at a large Hotel in Fiji....Merv and I have caps on...Mac ...the guy yawning is a returning Canadian......The fellow sittiing at the back had a name so long we just called him Tota.....He lives right there in Suva, Fiji . He boarded our ship 6 months earlier and joined up with us on our way To New Zealand...It was a flook that he returned to Suva on our ship home.....When we arrived in Auckland, in one of the first few days we were all walking in a small park on what seemed to us a nice summer day...it was about 75 degrees ...Tota was freezing ...he could not climatize right away....being from humid Fiji I reckon....anyway he went back to our digs and climbed into bed to keep warm....Tota hung with us a week or so then disappeared until the trip home...I think he went working on a sheep farm.
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