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Waves Motel Orewa

Cnr Hibiscus Coast Highway and Kohu Street Orewa, North Island, New Zealand

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Week 1: The end justifies the means

A travel blog entry by epbrody

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... They will be joining the grandparents club in March and again in June. We spent a very quiet day reating, unpacking, and just getting our bearings after lengthy but mostly uneventful travel. The most exciting thing that hapened enroute was that one of our bags got damaged. When we collected it in Los Angeles, we went to the baggage claim office where they promptly gave us a new bag, gave us a place to repack, and we were on our way. I thought the ...

Don't stop me now

A travel blog entry by dwiths

... consult of the map showed me that I could still get to the SH1 on this route so I continued on.  The route took me into the suburbs of Auckland, and three laned roads and traffic!  Suddenly different driving skills were needed!  I finally made it onto the SH1 which turned out to be a motorway, taking me over the Auckland Harbour bridge (nowhere near as impressive as the Sydney one). Finally I arrived at my destination of Orewa Beach, which ...

På tur med børnehaven - og lidt opdateringer

A travel blog entry by fogjustesen

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... l om tid, men han prøver virkelig at være stærk. Fjerner de alt for hurtigt-løbende tårer, mens han siger "farvel, jeg skal nok blive ok, og I kommer jo og henter mig lige om lidt!". Det kan vist knække et hvert forældrehjerte. Det svære er dog, at vi ikke kan "aflevere" ham til en voksen, der kan trøste ham, da han som sagt trækker sig fuldstændig pga sprogbarrieren. Vi er derfor pt ikke klar over, hvad fremtiden byder på. Men de seneste dage har han haft meget ondt i maven ...

Heading South

A travel blog entry by alicia.

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... against his mother's bosom and his feet against his father's chest, and pushed his parents apart, thus allowing life to begin on Earth. So now, looking at Tane Mahuta, his roots are his hands pushing against his Earth Mother, and his branches are his feet holding his Sky Father away.

After the forest, we drove to Hokianga. It had stopped raining but wasn't yet sunny. We did a short walk to a lookout over the harbor and rough sea. Bob's old knee ...

An unexpected treat!!

A travel blog entry by mickeyanddawn11

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... in to the little town. There wasn’t much there except for a butchers, a bakery, little supermarket and a pub, so that’s where we went. Was only going in for one but got chatting with a couple of kiwi guys and so had a couple in the end. It was worth it though as they told us about another laundry place and so we went there and got everything dried. Good job too as there was no way we could have got in to bed if we hadn’t!! We left Looby ...

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