Omahu Motor Lodge Hastings
327 Omahu Road Hastings, North Island, New Zealand
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Cape Kidnappers on a Tractor
This day starts with a lot of sunshine and I enjoy this beautiful morning with a jogging tour along the beach and harbour of Napier. By the way I check out the National Tobacco Building, a perfectly Art-Decó styled building in the "newer", by the earthquake uplifted part of Napier. After breakfast we are checking out and leave the sunny Napier southwards and drive about 30 min. to Hastings. There we stop at a Backpacker, but the manager ...
This little piggy...
... the bikes and all consuming a piglet sandwich (leftovers from bbq) on the seafront he made it home in a pretty respectable time. He assured us however that he still had the energy to go to the park where we had a ride on a train, followed by ice-creams all round. Need I say he was a little tired that night. All the excitement no doubt! At least we managed to complete our West Wing series 2 marathon before the library had the chance to deny anymore renewal ...
Day 28 Tue: Hastings.......lets make haste
... and I will be staying in Welly for the ones here on the weekend coming. We will catch up with them on their return. We are staying with Gary and Loraine this weekend. Loyalties are now clearly divided for the coming games. South Africa play Australia, Wales play Ireland. Steve and I have picked our teams and not withstanding that Ireland put Australia in an awkward position having to now play SA and then potentially NZ to get to the final, I will be going with ...
Bikes and beaches
... br>
Also, I seem to be getting older in my habits. I mean, who has ever seen an 18 year old wearing bicycle clips and a fluorescent jacket? But when the nice locals have a game of open-the-car-door-onto-the-nearest-knob bler-brit-on-a-bike, I'm quite grateful that I can be seen from space.
Anyway, the bikes were from NZ's answer to eBay (Trade Me) which for ...
The mystery of the electric blanket....
... apparently. Not only will she need to take the car next time, there is a whole playground and farmyard attached.
By the way, for anyone wondering, water drains in an anticlockwise direction here. If anyone would be kind enough to observe which way it goes down their northern hemisphere based plughole tonight to settle this once and for all, I would appreciate it.
Getting into the job a little more. ...



