Hastings Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So ... where was I? New Zealand? Yes I believe I was last in New Zealand when I became distracted and well my blog was no longer blogged. I am currently many mikes from there but the memories are still fresh in my mind and ready to jump from there to my page. Well screen.

Myself and Gisele hit it big time with our second WWOOF farm. I do...

All attempts to get the kids to bed earlier so they'd wake in time for an early start failed and we dragged them into their chairs for a 9am departure. Instead of taking SH2 towards Hastings, we ended up at the top of a very narrow hill in Wellington with nowhere to go except down. Very narrow and windy. Got a good photo though. Finally found ou...

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 apples that I picked! I got absolutely covered in scratches and bruises from fighting with the tree...

Well, we arrived here 2 days ago with the hope of work and a fairly lively coast town in the air....and got neither!. Instead we have a very strange town and lots of time to kill, let me explain. The plan was to meet Brad here then start work picking fruit almost immediatley, this hasn't quite worked out. We arrived to be met by Brad who told us...

This always happens, whenever I get enough stuff to warrant a travel log, I always forget half of it - despite sitting here trying to remember last time, I forgot to mention: My rather unpleasant experience with an apple covered in bird poo. Nice and squahy too, that wasn't something I wish to repeat again I can tell you. And either thursday or ...