Monday 21 October 2013

Day 39 - what to do on a wet Monday in Suva

The Fiji Museum, obviously.  Not too big and certainly not flashy, the main draw is the leather soles of the shoes apparently worn by Irish Methodist, Revd Thomas Baker, when his evangelising got him into hot water with a group of Fijian cannibals in 1867 (he has the dubious honour of being the only known missionary to Fiji who met his end in that way - I wonder whether that's where the "hot water" saying comes from??); personally  I preferred the small exhibit case wherein Fiji celebrates its two qualifying Olympians - not that they won anything you understand, but they were there

Talking of hot water though, we noticed that we've swapped one hazard zone for another... 



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