Gisborne

This is about my travels around the world with my family! We'll be gone for about a year, and we'll be all around the world!

Here we go! After a brief stopover in Calgary, we head to Christchurch, New Zealand for Part II of our Big Adventure. Here, Rod will work for the Canterbury Health Initiative and Amanda and Kate will attend Cashmere Primary School. I will be full-time ...

... so why not. After all who doesn't enjoy spending 9.5 hours on a bus. I spent most of the day travelling and arrived in Gisborne around 5:30pm. I spent the evening walking in the town, checked out a few of the monuments to Capt. Cook. There are several ...

... of Europe and a French winemaker who had tried over 300 different wines in the last 10 days. I wouldn’t have said that Gisborne is exactly off the beaten track but it appears that many people do think that therefore it becomes more of a real town ...

... (For a 23yr old Tom seems quite 'old'.. He goes to bed at 9.30, is asleep before 10 and is up at 6...) I didn't really like Gisborne, there was just something about it.  But the peace of the night was nice - the best bit was having a Morepork calling ...

So after a scenic drive through the Waioeka gorge we arrived in Gisborne. Unfortunately the weather didn't play its part for the whole time we stayed in "Gizzy" but hey you get that sometimes. We decided the Top Ten holiday park had by far the best ...