Hastings, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Fruit picking, aka SAS training
Apr 30, 2005 (9 photos)

Oh lordy, that was a tough 4 weeks... But good fun in the end! My first day of picking was so hard, I nearly cried! I had thought that it would be difficult, but didn't realise the fact that I was so clumsy meant that I would drop about 50% of the ...

Leaving Lake Waikaremoana
Feb 29, 2004 (2 photos)

... Napier. We had all thoroughly enjoyed the tramp around Lake Waikaremoana. There was no question about why this was one of the Great New Zealand Walks. Now that we had been hiking for three and a half days, our packs felt pretty light on our backs, and ...

The East Cape
Feb 8, 2006 (3 photos)

After the excitement of the rugby we headed off to Martinborough, wine country. We didn't have any wine but we did have the most amazing chocolate cake known to man! We camped overnight at a lovely campsite next to a lake. We took a drive out to a ...

I've not been up to much most things are ...
Dec 29, 2002

... them, no boiling first!). We earn't a compliment from the chinese saying it was the best meal they'd had since coming to hastings! Now, if you think we get changeable weather in the UK, you ain't seen nothing. Bearing in mind that it's the equivalent ...

Hastings
Dec 14, 2007 (1 photos)

Paul & Diana's wedding @ Te Awa Farm Winery.

Okay it's christmas eve i worked a half-day ...
Dec 24, 2002

... ). On to other subjects: Mystic shops, you know, the sort that sell crystals and books on enlightenment. Well, I've noticed that new zealand seems to have a fair few of them (three in hastings alone, a town of 50,000 people). Exactly how selling ...

Road trip with James Laura and Ian
Apr 11, 2007 (23 photos)

Well we meet up with Ian mate James and what a top guy he is and well as his girl friend, Laura. Well we head straight out, well after a cup of tea and a slice of chocolate cake, HOW I LLLLOOOOOVVVVEEEEE DE CCCAAAAKKKKEEE. Well we head to the nation park ...

BOXING DAY
Dec 27, 2007

Boxing day, a good day to eat left overs and watch the cricket on TV.

Pre-travel entry!!
Jan 28, 2009

Been here for nearly a month now!! Came down from the Jones' up in Hamilton just before New Years!! I wanted to start my travels but Vicky made me see that staying and working here to earn a bit more cash before I started my travelling would be good, ...

Waipawa - a brief visit!
Mar 4, 2009

... Vicky collected me from the bus stop! Went back to the house, met Margery, their friend visiting from the UK, and learnt of all the new things Charlie could now do since I had been away (he gets into the pool now!) We went off to visit Paul while he was ...

A lazy day in HB
Dec 28, 2007 (1 photos)

Coming to the end of our meat pie trip downunder, wet but warm today inthe bay. Jenn enjoyed another flat white coffee and I enjoyed another steak and cheese pie. Big Fella's wedding tomorrow @ 5pm @ Sileni resturant, looking forward to it. Cheers G & ...

If u could c what I can c when I'm picking peaches
Jan 15, 2006 (5 photos)

Right then last day in hastings hoorah! my ...
Jan 5, 2003

Right then, last day in Hastings, hoorah! My last day at work was yesterday. We've been getting up successively earlier to try and beat the heat (tops out at about 27 at the moment, ut with no cloud or wind, it's hot, burn time is about 10-11 minutes, ...

Hawkes Bay
Dec 13, 2007 (1 photos)

Home town relaxing & visiting friends.

Downunder
Jun 27, 2004

... by mistake - caught the wrong bus!), Belise and Mexico the second time around, my California roadtrip and finally my first month in New Zealnd. To get you all exicted i also have some photos, but at present am not computer savi enough to know how to add ...

Boxing Day
Dec 26, 2007

Boxing Day, a good day to eat left overs and watch the cricket on TV.

Cornwall Cricket Club
Dec 15, 2007 (1 photos)

Visit to the old cricket club http://www.cornwallcricket-hastings.org.nz/index.html

campervan capers!!!
Jan 25, 2008 (1 photos)

... and down Te Maka Peak, it was lovely, and hard work!!!! but brilliant views, tonight we are in a backpackers place in hastings cause the van has a clutch problem!!!!!!!!!! but rather it happens now than when we are up some mountain somewhere and it is the ...

Today i started my first day in my new ...
Dec 10, 2002

... you're thinking). And then there's the cars. A guy I met in Wellington (a professor from Sunderland, studying goldmining in New Zealand, I didn't ask) said that it's kind of like 50's America, with people in the small towns having nothing better to do ...

Okay so i've been thinning a week now (only ...
Dec 14, 2002

Okay, so I've been thinning a week now (only half-day on Sat). I now have dirt under my nails that's down too deep to reach with a nail brush (not that I can find one to buy) and is going to take a decade to grow out. And I'm picking up a nice ...

Art Deco capital of the world
Jan 24, 2007 (10 photos)

... met up with Katie, an English girl that I knew from my travels on the east coast of Australia. Shes been travelling and working in New Zealand so it was great to catch up again. On my second day in Naper I met up with Jay - a friend of my cousin ...

hastings to auckland
May 15, 2008 (25 photos)

well i left hastings at 9am after seeing my kids in the morning and having a frantic morning which started at 6am...i got up to have a shower then decided that id make my last coffee and in a state of rush locked my room door behind me...after ...

Christmas in NZ
Dec 25, 2007 (1 photos)

Christmas back in the bay, Kiwi style.

Frustration in Apple Land
Mar 12, 2005

... Coke! It's the little things, I tell you! What an overall crappy day. I found out later on that one of my new mates here, a Scottish girl named Vicky, seems to think that I'm an angry person! I tried to explain to her that I'm ridiculously patient and ...

Good Riddance to Bad Apples
Apr 19, 2005

... to have escaped without completely killing myself. Ok I have dents in my shins from leaving on my ladder, my left shoulder has a definate new pain I've never felt before, I have a tiny spikey piece of apple tree embedded in my finger, and I'll never eat ...

apples
Mar 9, 2008 (14 photos)

hallo alle zusammen! Die letzten zwei Wochen haben wir hier in Hastings mit arbeiten verbracht. Es war ganz ok, aber traveln gefaellt uns doch ein bisschen besser als arbeiten :) Auf alle Faelle war es eine echt coole Zeit auf der Apelplantage! Wir ...

Career Fruit Picker
Feb 19, 2005 (2 photos)

After my six week stint picking pears in Australia I'd always talk to people about my experiences on the farm with a certain fondness of it. I have no idea where that fondness came from because I've been doing it here in Hawkes Bay for a week and I really ...

the first bbq
Mar 23, 2008 (12 photos)

well here we are at muzzars (murray)place my old work mate, he is honestly the bbq king. the only guy i know that can cook almost anything without fail on the bbq.its the first of a few farewell get togethers before i leave as they are also leaving for ...

What a strange town.....
Dec 9, 2003 (3 photos)

... have another mass of time to kill. All in all a bit pissed off at the mo!!!!!. 13/12/03 It's 4 days into our Hastings experience and me and Brace have both successfully managed to avoid all kinds of work!. Bradda has been working hard, up at 6:30am ...

apple picking
Feb 24, 2008 (15 photos)

... der Film, auch wenn wir nicht alles verstanden haben! :)) 24/02/2008 Sonntags ist immer Bauernmarkt und dieser hier in Hastings ist besonders gut. Es gibt wirklich guts Obst und Gemuese und coole Musik. Ansonsten ist in dieser Gegend aber ueberhaupt ...