I’ve got nothing but time right now, and it’s a beautiful thing. Work doesn’t start until Tuesday as today and Monday are national holidays. Amber and Andy are off at Easter Camp for the weekend with about 3,000 Christchurch youth and I won’t see Arron until tomorrow night. And as an additional consequent of the … Read More

Written my last day in Fiji. Indecision threatened to get the best of me as I tried to choose the right island day cruise for my last day in Fiji. With the cheaper options not offering the best snorkeling options, I was looking at trips priced at over a hundred Fiji dollars. When I was at the … Read More

Written my second day in Fiji. Having gone to bed around 7.30 last night, we were up before the sun today. Breakfast at the hostel isn’t served until 6.30 (never before have I had to wait for breakfast) so we laid in bed a while longer til it was time. It was a gorgeous morning – … Read More

We landed in Nadi (pronounced Nandy) around 5.45am, with two major sighs of relief: One when my bag came out on the luggage carousel, another once I saw a man from my hostel holding a sign with “Candice Riarden” on it. It was close enough for me. It’s funny, I’ve been booking hostels online for several … Read More

So a lot has happened in the past month about which I’ve shamefully neglected to post…well, partly from neglect and partly from a never-ending lack of steady internet. Trips to Tallinn, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Bruges, and Prague along with moving to London – but I’m going to go a little out of order and write about Prague as … Read More

The first stop on our ten-day tour of Scandinavia was a two nights’ stay in Stockholm, Sweden. Landing in Sweden was a big moment for me as I’ve never been to Europe before. Over the summer, I found that each time I had the opportunity to tell someone what I was doing with my life … Read More

On the walls of the day in the shade of the sun we wrote down another vision of us we are the challengers of the unknown… — The New Pornographers, “Challengers” Challengers of the unknown. I first discovered this song last summer and fell in love with the idea of challenging the unknown. It’s how … Read More