Number Eight
Travel Blogs from Tauranga
The Mount and the City
... car auction. It was pretty neat to see but we only watched. Our trip to the big city also gave us a chance to do some big box store shopping. We are finding some real gems at The Wharehouse (like Walmart) for cheap. We are getting ready for the big Christmas Parade next week when the town starts to get really busy. We are going to volunteer at it and then run in the Santa Clause fun run on the 5th. Look for some pics of mr and mrs clause in our next ...
Horses, Hobbiton, and One Horrible Morning
... siblings, turned out to be a bit of a handful- both had learnt to pull at parts of their lead ropes until they landed on one that'd untie their quick release knots , and we ended up with Rusty escaping and Evie pirouetting on my foot (which, I may add, is still a bit bruised!) in an attempt to join him. Needless to say, we quickly assigned one person (Tom) as 'head guarder and dissuader of escape attempts' and the other as 'undoer/doer-up of buckles as quickly ...
Una de cal y otra de arena
... Nos fuimos a la pieza y no salimos por un buen rato.
Ese día estabamos con un humor de perros, las cosas no nos estaban saliendo para nada según lo planeado y para colmo veíamos como la cuenta del banco solo mantenía su curva descendente. Lo pensamos bastante y dijimos ok, nos equivocamos de lugar y nos equivocamos en no habernos ido antes de acá, la semana que viene nos vamos y empezamos de nuevo en otro lado, las cosas tienen que mejorar.
Al día siguiente ...
Ein Tag eines "arbeitslosen" Backpacers
... schreiben wollte. Um den vielen schmatzten Malaysianern während des Frühstückes zu entfliehen, ging ich eine Etage tiefer. Dort traf ich wieder auf Peggy und Bianca. Beide hatten heute wegen „schlecht Wetter“ frei bekommen.
Da keiner so recht wusste wir in den Tag starten sollten, fuhren wir zusammen mit dem Auto nach Tauranga und tranken in einem Café einen Cappuccino. Wie ...
Day 205
... 8217;s pitch black.” Holy f**k. I went third, and just about managed not to have a coronary. It was actually surprisingly okay and easier than I expected. Then it’s a case of crawling, squirming and kneeling through little pitch-black tunnels and holes, all the while with water pouring past you. Abseil number two involved actually abseiling down the torrential waterfall – in total darkness. That really was an ass-clenching moment I can ...