A tropical cyclone warning is now in force for the East of Fiji while the alert has been cancelled for Taveuni and nearby smaller islands.
Tropical Cyclone Lin was located 330km East-Northeast of Fiji at 8am today, the Nadi Weather office said.
The rest of the country can expect strong wind warnings.
What a welcome! :(
Using a similar format to that of his previous book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Troost creates a comical and touching travel memoir. Troost and his wife, Sylvia, move from busy Washington, D.C., to Vanuatu, a nation made up of 83 islands in the South Pacific. As Sylvia works for a regional nonprofit, Troost immerses himself in the islands' culture, an odd mix of the islanders' thousand-year-old "kastoms" along with imperialist British and French influences. This really means that Troost gets to live in a nice house while he gets drunk on kava; dodges "a long inferno of magma and a cascade of lava bombs" at the "world's most accessible volcano"; and checks out the "calcified" leftovers from one of Vanuatu's not-so-ancient traditions, cannibalism. At the end of the book, the couple move to Fiji so that Sylvia will have state-of-the-art medical care when she gives birth to their first baby. While modern-day Fiji provides little fodder for Troost's comic sensibilities, the birth of his son enables him to share some deeper thoughts and decide it is "time to stop looking for paradise." A funny travelogue with a sentimental heart, Troost's latest work genuinely captures the search for paradise as well as the need for home. 
Like any tropical country, Fiji is full of insects. Big, small, good, bad, disgusting, cute...there is a wide variety, so up to you to like/dislike them. But, a particularly funny one is the moko (Fijian word for lizard). Check this video and you will understand what I am talking about.
Rise of the Balolo (nationwide): Dawn after the full moon in October sees thousands of Fijians out on the reefs with buckets to snare the wiggling balolo, a coral worm that comes out to mate only then. Actually, the rear ends of the worms break off and swim to the surface, spewing eggs and sperm in a reproductive frenzy lasting only a few hours. Fijians consider the slimy balolo to be their caviar. 
Érase una vez dos niños tan guapos que todo el mundo quería verles. Tanto deseaba la gente contemplar sus caritas, que una revista pagó a los padres de estos niños 14 millones de dólares para poder fotografiarles.
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