Best Western Cherry Tree Lodge Christchurch

... for us (thanks Ni!) and were really sad to say bye - it felt strange thinking about continuing on travelling in New Zealand without her but we struggled on! The next day was better in Christchurch and I found the place started to grow on me - it doesn't have a big city feel which i like and I can see it would be a nice place to live. We set off on the road and no sooner was Niamh was gone and I was being asked to sit in the drivers seat - I was a bit ...

... solar system. It was really like sitting out in the night sky. LA Zoo was another stop on our LA tour. Not the nicest zoo i have ever been too but a good day out. In a very LA way, Loreta bought her toy poodle with her to the zoo and she was pushing it about in a pink stroller. Everyone was expecting to see a baby in there, but got the shock of their like when they saw it was her dog Bonnie.

Whilst i was in LA i took a weekend trip up to ...

... there over my shoulder was a big white, snowy, icy thingamajiggy sitting as proud as punch right there in the mountains. That was easy. Gee, I'm such a good wagontrain guide.... We piled into the wagons and ploughed on to meet the glacier. Out we get and after a couple of minutes, walk to the top of a hill for a better view of this glacier thing. A bit of a steep climb, but very pretty and not really a long way to walk at all. The platform gave us terrific views of the glacier & ...

... One was a guy from France who played the guitar and the other girl was from Japan and just learned to play the accordion 2 weeks ago and was really amazing. We talked to them later, and I found out that the Japanese girl was from Osaka which is where I lived for one year. So, we spoke a little bit in Osaka ben (the dialect there) and laughed a lot. It was really fun.

... lounge" met een stuk of 5 medebewoners op de 40" plasma wat DVD's gezien. Bij de balie van het hostel kon je tegen borg DVD's lenen, goed geregeld. 15-02: Ik wilde eigenlijk zo snel mogelijk op zoek naar een auto, dus ik ben vandaag gestart bij een adresje wat ik via internet gevonden had. Daar in 2 potentiele auto's een proefritje gemaakt (Mitsubishi Lagnum en Subaru Legacy). De Lagnum was toch wat duur voor wat je kreeg, de Legacy had wat punten van kritiek zoals slechte ...

... started on the 5th Jan. Very nerve wracking as i know nothing of Neuroscience or surgery apart from what i learnt in Sweden 3yrs ago (which wasn't much!!). They have all been great though and i have learned so much already and actually have been working for 7 wks already!! The accent causes slight problems as they have a phone system that is computerised and it speaks "Kiwi" not Scottish (how rude!), but other than that i am settling in ...

... were about five that stayed with us almost the whole time we were in the water. Don't have any pics of me with the dolphins, because sadly I was all on my lonesome, and the only official pic they took of me, I have obviously just been splashed because I am screwing my face up, so didn't much fancy paying for that. Therefore you will just have to believe me when I say that one swam so close I could have reached out and touched it, except we had been told ...

... in the Christchurch one way system (not quite the same as the Bermuda Triangle, but you'd never know from the way Katie described it later!) and I had a nightmare trying to get everything inside and upstairs without having anything nicked or food dropped!

It was during my 3rd load that Bex (my little sister) called, to make some arrangements for meeting later.

At the time I was carrying ...