Hello awesome peoples, This may or may not be the final blog entry for now, but don’t worry, it’ll be good, since it was the day of THE SKY TOWEEEEEEERRR. So, yesterday (the 2nd) started off with an AMAZING brekkie at Hollywood Café in the centre of Northcote. CC had Eggs Hollandaise and I had […]
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Christmas and New Year in Kiwiland!
Happy 2014!! Our ‘proper’ Christmas celebration was on the 28th with CC’s family and 30-odd relatives. A full, hectic day (we did Sheepworld in the morning, got home, and the first visitors came within ten minutes of getting back – we were held up due to a traffic accident – saw my first ever rescue […]
POHUTAKAWA
means bless you in Maori. No it doesn’t really. I’ve just been having serious problems trying to come up with a title for this. Ok so Christmas special-time. HAPPY CHRISTMAS. This is my favourite tree in NZ, the Pohutakawa, also known as the ‘NZ Christmas tree’. GORGEOUS eh!? Our more ‘traditional’ Christmas will be tomorrow […]
Rotorua Part 2: Kiwis and Tuataras and the experience of lugeing!
iHOLA! So, continuing about Friday. Rainbow Springs. Rainbow Springs is “based around NZ’s largest and most successful Kiwi Conservation Centre” and have released over 1,000 kiwis into the wild. (http://www.rainbowsprings.co.nz/250/about-us/about-us). In addition to kiwis, it has loads of endemic NZ trees and birds and fish and lots of information on them.Firstly I just have to […]
DEVONPORT I love you
Good day fellow human beings, ‘Today’ (the 18th) was a very good day, the day we went to Devonport. Devonport would be a 1½h walk away, or two buses. I decided to walk the way of the first bus (38mins, according to googlemaps), and take the second one. Buses are a hassle and I decided […]
Birkenhead and Kiwi spelling
WAZZZZAAAAAA homies, Today our first topic shall be Kiwi spelling. One of our first days roadtripping there was a sign next to the road advertising strawberries. (So, letting drivers know there is a stall/little shop selling strawberries in a bit down the road.) Except it wasn’t spelt strawberries, it was spelt STRWABERRIES. Quick typing probs… […]
Northcote and Auckland: Discovering my next NZ home
YO BROS (and why not sistas), (practising me rugby kiwi slang, see what I did there) Today I shall tell you about the two following days (15th and 16th) which were basically me getting to know my knew home environment. I have travelled alone countless times, explored alone countless times, all good fun. But I’ve always […]
To the Eery North FEAT. SAND DUNES
12. December 2013 Today we left Russell, unfortunately leaving Hayzybobzykins who would be starting her job there the next day. To clarify things I just drew myself a map of where we went, though it does not really show well online… SOZ. Google map it. (Up the east coast, up to the very tip, […]
First day in NZ: Off to Russell!
10/12/2013 klo 22.27. I am officially very good at conquering jet lags. After flying to New Zealand, I went to bed at half nine/tennish and woke up at half eight in the morning. Amazing sleep. Granted I was quite tired this afternoon and evening, but still, lol to all the scary stories of “how it […]
Aberystwyth 2 Gatwick
(Due to lack of wifi during the travels, there is a bit of a back-log in the publication of these…) 7/12/2013 klo 18.12 Yo. Hello from EAT. at Gatwick Airport, which has neither plugs nor wifi. Won’t be using my phone or laptop much on these flights then… Oh well. I have books. And […]