7 Days and Nights in Samoa

Our Beach Side Fale

After such a busy year, Liza and I have taken the opportunity to have a restful and relaxing break in Samoa at Sinalei Resort.  Special thanks to our wonderful Travel Guru who happened to slip in this was our honeymoon, and in a way it was. It scored us an upgrade to a beach side fale, some free massages, cocktails and a lavalava each.  Sweet!  On top we had already managed an upgrade on our flight, I could get so used to Business Class :)

Our View in Paradise

Apparently the wet season, which we didn't realize.  Minimal tempature a cool 28 degrees with an an average of 31 +.  Thank goodness our fale (house) had air con !!!.  The resort is located on the southern side of Upolu (Island where the capital Apia is located).  Unfortunately this is also where a recent Cyclone had struck.  The locals had been without power for 2-3 weeks, but there had been significant clean up already completed.  The resort was mostly ok, with only a half dozen fales with significant damage.  The golf course and tennis courts where covered in debris.  A super sized generator also helped to keep things ticking along.

The Locals

Initially I had good intentions of running every few days, however after a short walk, we confirmed there was no where to run apart from the the single sized main road used by all, not exactly safe, likely to get run over.  So without too much struggle I decided not to fight it (buggar!) and we took the week as a rest period before the heavy traning commenced.

Our days consisted of a sleep in, breaky around 10am, a nap, a swim, a nap, reading, a nap, a massage, dinner and bed.  Awesome!  However as wonderful as the first 6 and half days were (3 books later) by day 7, I was ready to come home and kick this training into another gear ....