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Culinary Excursion to Vietnam with Luke Nguyen
... the OMG moments when he showed a fertilised duck embryo being eaten, or swallowing the still pumping snake heart! All these stories and more gave us a glimpse of Vietnam and all it has to offer. Steven suggested we should one day go to Vietnam, and I said “yes, but only if Luke is going to be our guide, as I want it to be just like his TV show not just a regular tour! I want all the experiences that he has shown (excluding the duck embryo and snake ...
Out and about in Auckland
... they bungeed off the tower. It wasn’t Alex by the way, he was still passed out on the floor next to me from having ‘attempted’ to look through the floor panel. We also checked out the harbour which had some amazing boats that must have been worth millions.
Later on we met Angie after work and were driven along the coast near the harbour to see some more great beaches and check out where the rich lived. The houses were amazing with ...
Diving
... Zeit haelt, dem man hilft etc. Wir haben einige Sachen im Wasser gelernt und es hat richtig Spass gebracht! Ausser dass es am Ende doch ein wenig kalt wurde und dass wir ein kleines "Gewichtsproblem" hatten. Ich und noch einige andere wollten einfach nicht untergehen bzw. unten bleiben. Wir hatten zu wenig Gewichte drauf (och wie schoen, wenn zu wenig Gewicht mal das Problem ist ;-)...) und leider nicht genuegend als Reserve dabei. Dennoch war es echt ...
Sweet as
Landed in Auckland who knows when. A week later or something. Travelled into the future. Passport and all was cool. Lots of dogs. Loved them though. I stopped to get their business cards. There was a stand everyone walked past which had cards for each dog. It was great. The handler asked me if I wanted to adopt her one as it was close to retirement. I said the dog probably wouldn't like Ireland much. Little did I realise it rains just as much here. First person I talked to ...
What do I do now...
... he and his wife had already invited me to stay with them in there hometown a couple hours south of Auckland. As his wife put it, "I would need a motherly influence in my life if I was traveling alone." Too funny! She was also a huge fan of my FEAR THE BEARD shirt. She and her husband were so nice I almost took it off and handed it to her.
Once I was fully settled ...
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