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Passing through Palmy
... day on Thursday, and again on Friday. I couldn't tell you what I actually did at their house in Palmy.. I don't think I did anything at all.. It was nice anyway. When Friday afternoon arrived, my bags were all packed and loaded up again into the car for the 2hr journey to Wellington. Shirley-Anne and Dan had to go down to Wellington anyway to ...
River Valley Rocks
... painting. From there down to the showers where we had to wet our hands and back up across the veranda into the lodge. My partner herbert and I did pretty well at first but stumbled a little at the end and really lost our rhythm but still put in a top 7 (out of about 15) performance with 2 minutes 38 seconds. Louise and Olly were eventual winners smashing everyone’s times but to be fair louise was just dragged around as Olly sprinted her round ...
Snow, Snow and more Snow
... transfers (basically where Europeans arrived and stole the land illegally from the local tribes) but did not realise just how ingrained the importance of the Maori is in the day to day culture.
Generally in the country there is a lot more respect paid to them than we had imagined which was very interesting to experience. Chris also spotted his first Maori woman who had the trademark tattooed chin making him do a double take.
We ...
Half-time score
... in Palmerston North on the North Island, and therefore weren’t affected by the quake at all. In fact, we didn’t even feel it.
News of the earthquake did however prove to be a bit of a distraction as we were desperately trying to plan the South East Asia segment of our trip. I have to say a big thank you to Kerry, who did an enormous amount of work on planning South East Asia while we were at home, and without that effort we would, no doubt, soon be ...
Konsti war da!
... um Fotos zu machen und dann sprang der Wagen nicht mehr an:-( Da das natürlich mitten im Nirgendwo, irgendwo in den Bergen war, hatten wir auch kein Handyempfang um beim AA, dem neuseeländischen ADAC anzurufen. So musste Kai in das nächste Dorf trampen um ein Telefon ausfindig zu machen. 1 Stunde später wurden wir dann in das wunderschöne Haast abgeschleppt! Dort wurde uns dann gesagt, dass die Benzinpumpe kaputt wäre. Das kam Jasmin irgendwo her ...