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Cambridge Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cambridge, New Zealand
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Last Day of Races
Our last day of races was yesterday. I'd love to say we were awesome and showed everyone else around how we do it in California. The reality is that it was the first time that we had ever been in a boat together. Well, that's not true. The first time we ...
Horses cats and dogs and puppies
Catherine and Greg have border collie puppies, and the kids ran them around until they were tired. The kids never tired of the puppies, and had to learn how not to get chewed on! Great ...
Waka Ama
... to watch. On the stage updates are televised throughout the day on the Maori television station about the big Waka Ama race here in New Zealand. It is a huge event for them and even the Queen of the Maori people was here to greet us during the opening ...
Zipping through
I can't really say I'm impressed by the north island, although to be fair I think the best places to see are probably the coromandel, bay of islands and oop north. The rest of it just seems to be standard issue towns with roads between them so I've ...
The Boatshed Cafe
From the moment I got to the Boatshed Cafe, the entire Clark family made me feel so welcome - like I was one of the family. Funnily enough, I fit right in to. Robyn and Richard have three daughters: Phoebe (14), Maddy (18) and Rebecca or Bex (20). But ...
new life awwww
somewhere near hamilton , catching up with my old travel buddy, shes 5 months preggers, oops nice . Man she can cook , her Boyfriends a lucky guy, ...
Only surviving Lord of the Rings set!
... a very small, little town called Matamata (about an hour northwest of Rotorua). Because of the Tolkien Estate's resistance to allow New Zealand to profit off Tolkien's story, and also because New Line Cinema has a policy of destroying all their sets ...
Another mince pie darling?
... by quaffing our fair share. "Did you know a mince pie has 8 million calories?" - SHUT UP SCROOGE! However, it is New Zealand and it is sunny so we have entertained ourselves by traveling in the Nissan Sunny to a few local attractions. The ...
It's Christmas - but not as we know it!
... on the 27th of December, to the South Island, so in the mean time we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. More importantly, we've popped some photos on the blog of our North Island adventures for you to view. However, ...
Last entry
... was a welcome sight and after the drive to Devonport, the chatting over coffee and the advancing of the watches another hour for daylight saving, we finally made it to bed at 2.30am. Apart from our drive to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon, our trip is ...
Preparation
Grand Pacific Cruise Sun Princess Our trip will begin on Sunday July 13 when we leave Cambridge and drive to Devonport, Auckland. Here we will stay with Colin and Marian, and once again we will impose on them to transport us to the ...
Old people and moving house
... things out Unfortunately Dad seems to think they will use EVERYTHING we move...once again...old people. We spent about 3 trips between Auckland and Cambridge and I missed out on seeing my cousin who was over from Perth. Argh! Not helping ever again. ...
>T minus 6hrs & 10minutes and counting
Usual last minute pandemonium, checking documentation, tidy up's, luggage checks, etc. Expecting shuttle in one & half hours, it's then we can feel like the "Great Adventure"has really begun. This is the first venture out of the Southern ...
Lake Karapiro
arrived in Cambridge for my 3 weeks work , which in turn i got accom for free.. i was about 8 KM outside Cambridge based at Lake Karapiro (Karapeeerooo ) , was corrected a couple of times ..must learn to pronounce the places i am going to , does not hold ...
Off to the farm
Well, When I started this journal I said that I was going to enter in an entry about once a week. It seems it is more like once a day right now. I blame jetlag. Beacuse there is a three hour difference when I wake up at what feels like ...
10 minutes out of Cambridge and Hamilton
... winter sun on their deck for a couple of hours. Very pleasant too. We will venture out on day trips further from Cambridge, weather dependent of course. The temperatures have certainly dropped and we can now feel that winter bite. Stay well until next ...
camberwick green
A shot back to the days of village cricket played on the green , a brightly coloured police station and a white washed church bathed in sunlight. the journey on to rotorua took on a surreal light as everything was a glow with an awesome sunset of pinks ...
Monkeying Around (5 days with the Gibbons).
... of your clothes and stung your skin. Matt let us know that this was the worst weather that he had experienced in New Zealand. Ever. We passed 3 hours sitting in the Auckland airport McDonalds nursing coffees to try and persuade our bodies that it was ...
There at last
After being picked up by my relatives at Auckland airport we made it to Cambridge (well, Leamington technically) and I was finally here. The plan is to spend a week or so with my realtives, get a car then head off on my adventure looking for places to see ...
Quiet day at the office
Short entry for today. Other than a quick trip into Cambridge; a town that is a cross between an American western town and the UK's version of Cambridge, for supplies, we did next to nothing. We started the long process of "developing systems for ...
Christmas in summer
... Suzanne, Kane and Hayley were round to open presents (Paul was round all day too so I have, at last, met the entire New Zealand contingent of my family) and finally a traditional New Zealand Christmas dinner of ham on the bone, with scallops wrapped in ...
Watched rugby in the Prince Albert
Tom and Jane took a trip to the West coast and booked us in for a night at the Cambridge campsite a night early. Camilla and Alan stayed at Waihi beach and walked further round the headland to the deserted beach we had seen the night before but had not ...
Uncle bobs
... dinner was awesome too. Thankfully I didn't make as much a fool of myself as I did previously while playing fuzzy duck. A few new games were played introduced mainly by the drinking game guru Dan Postles. That night we all slept in a big hall on ...
An die Arbeit!
... ganz besonderen Charme! Drei-Gänge-Menü geht auch, alles eine Frage der Logistik ;-) Wir sind seit Samstag in Cambridge bei unserem ersten Wwoofing- Job auf einer 30ha-Farm mit Schwerpunkt auf Salat und Kräutern. Leichte Arbeit zum ...
On The Road Again
All set to leave around 7.30 am for our 8 hour drive in the truck (a bit slower in the truck) to catch the 6.30 pm ferry from Wellington to Picton............ http://www.travelpod.com/members/kiwigal ...
zu besuch
Gerade sind wir bei Leonie, einer au-pair-freundin von Larissa, für eine Nacht. Heute abend lecker zusammen essen und chillen. Morgen gehts dann los nach raglan. ...
Lots To Catch Up On
... up bright and early for a flight to New Zealand! After getting up at 4.30am and arriving at 10pm in Cambridge, where Stuart and Di live in New Zealand it is fair to say I was rather tired! I received a warm welcome on arriving however and quickly felt ...
Living in Cambridge
... version of everthing I've been up to! I am now doing Stray, a hop on hop off bus journey around the South Island of New Zealand so I will write another post soon about these adventures. I am currently half way through my trip, in Queenstown with a glass ...
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