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... with a little sadness and lyrics that are intelligent and never oppressive. One to check out! The second trip was themed by a gentle piece of electronica called A Place in Time by Mundane Music. It is only 28 minutes long and thanks to all the included family-life-ambient-sounds (snippets of conversation, kids talking and such like) it sounds rather like something a creative dad made in his garage. Very listenable to ...

... know what I mean...looking forward to it!).<br><br>Other aspects of this time away from "real life" have, upon reflection, enhanced my experience here. Just being away, being anonymous, and knowing that no one can reach you to bother you about something that came up at work can work wonders to heal a person's spirit. It relaxed me. Yes, there were difficult times here, emotionally, because while you can physically absent yourself from your normal routines, it's ...

Weather: as of now, the sun is rising, there's some lovely frost on the grass, and it's refreshingly chilly<br>Mood: uncertain, woke up not long ago<br><br>How would you like a big slice of beetroot on your burger??? In NZ, that's how it's done. I've been promised a taste of this ...

I was up at an ungodly hour in the morning or at least a time at which if I was god or any other all powerful being I would have still been asleep. But due to my lack of all powers, I had to catch the ferry back to North Island and when I booked I thought early was a good idea. <br><br>The sailing was calm and uneventful enabling me to appreciate the view, sleep and watch a truly awful film about dancing, a rough sea (not ...

... Bye bye North Island and thanks for the 90 Mile Beach, Rainbow Warrier, Bay of Island, Jon &amp; Robyn, Rotorua, White Island and Art Deco Napier and off to something completely different. The Sailing took 3 hours and was lovely, all smooth sailing and beautiful views, especially when we got into Marlborough Sounds, the gateway to the South Island. We landed in Picton, checking into the nicest backpackers, The Villa, and chilled, getting ready for our 7:30 ...

... tide and were pulled into shore where we beached and the waves dumped huge amount of water into the kayaks and we were soaked but got out of the kayaks and were able to get back out to sea.  We rowed all the way around the bay it took just under two hours.  After that we went to lunch at Mac's again and then headed back to the house and got ready for shopping.  On Friday the shops stay open late to ...

... on the beach to entertain us. After watching these penguins for awhile, we walked back up to the cliffs and decided to walk along the fence line for a bit. The fence was there to prevent humans from going onto the penguins land. But it did not prevent the many rabbits and the feral cat we saw that unfortunately was probably eating the young and weak birds. Along the fence line we soon saw 4 penguins, 2 young ones and 2 older ones. There ...

hey everyone! currently i am in wellington new zealand! it was a long but beautiful day. it has been in the 80's and 90's most of the trip. we were in waitomo yesterday and when black water rafting and repelling in to the caves. it was so fun. i learned about the local glow worms that arent acctually glow "worms" at all but maggots. the reason why they glow is because of there fecal matter and sex ...

... more nights because I'm gonna visit a friend that I don't know yet - just by Facebook, because it's a friend of a friend in Munich. Let's see if she's worth it that I stay several nights there and that I have this fix date which I couldn't change because she took some days off just because I'm coming... I don't know... I don't have a good feeling... (And I really hated the situation some days ago when I wanted to stay longer at Queenstown for example, but were not able to...)

... Informatie bleek gesloten (duh, tis zondag), dus snel even een internet cafe ingedoken om mijn overtocht naar het Zuidereiland te boeken.<br>Daarna snel even naar de Mac geweest, om vervolgens eindelijk naar de film te gaan die ik mijn hele trip in Nieuw Zeeland al zien wil: Narnia. Narnia is hier een soort sprookje, geschreven door C. S. Lewis (inderdaad, die ook Alice in Wonderland schreef) en bestaat uit de zeven Chronieken van Narnia. Het eerste deel is nu ...