Bade farewell to the Resurgence today and made it to Picton in time to catch the 1:15 PM ferry instead of the 2:20 PM we'd booked.  Inter Islander rated our crossing as "moderate".  We left one rental car on the South Island and picked up another in Wellington.  It was pretty quiet downtown except for a 2 night rock concert featur...

Once we got settled in Wellington, it was time to . . . stop having fun and apply to graduate school. For about 6 weeks, we spent every free moment with our computers, writing essays, filling out forms, requesting transcripts, etc. However, we still managed to squeeze in a few multicultural celebrations and one epic mattress mission. With all of...

Hola, how're-ye'all doin. Sorry i'm not replying to any of youe e-mails individually but will get around to it eventually. Took the day off work today cos felt really shite yesterday cos i went on the party pills. The whole hostel dressed up and i decided to dress up as Alex De Large from A Clockwork Orange so i got a white shirt, didn't have a ...

It's been weeks, well a lifetime, leading up to the moment when i sang on stage for the first time. I realised i had a fear of singing when i not only was afraid to sing in the shower in case anyone heard, but found i was even miming in church, when even tone deaf old dears were singing to the heavens without a care. It took me a long time to re...

Wellington is as windy as everyone promised it to be and then some. Yesterday there was a freak storm on the South Island and apparently they had snow in Christchurch (the biggest city on the South Island). This is the first time it has snowed there in September in over 10 years - just our luck and today parts of the North Island were supposed t...

Well that's the tour well and truly sorted. Were the Lions that bad or were the All Blacks that incredible? Well if you've any interest in that question you'll already have your opinion formed by now. You're lucky it wasn't informed by the NZ sporting press though. Pure drivel most of it. Daniel Carter - 11 out of 10, Brian O'Driscoll is a whing...

06/09/04 We arrived at the InterIslander ferry terminal at 9, checked in and boarded at 9.30am. After six weeks exploring the South Island it was time to head north again to catch up on anything we may have missed the first time round, and at 10am the ferry glided away along the Queen Charlotte Sound before turning right into the Tory Channel th...

18.28 - To my disgust, my alarm clock woke me up this morning even though I knew it would when I set it last night! I quickly had a shower and got ready to go to work. After a quick breakfast, I started. Basically all I have to do is wash up and make coffee which isn't very difficult. To make it worse, it was really quiet and the time dragged on...

We're now in sunny, windy Wellington, which is currently nursing a collective hangover from its Lord of the Rings premier party last week. There's still signs of the film everywhere though, most noticeably in the form of a huge dragon sat on top of the Empire cinema where the event was last week. We would have been tempted to have a look inside ...