Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge
Travel Blogs from Riccarton
Getting Out of Town
... School to meet Rod's colleague. We were greeted by a group of teenage girls who were tending to the horses and just generally enjoying themselves. The keeper of the stables showed up soon after and Amanda and Kate were invited to to meet the horses and go for a little ride. What a beautiful surrounding for riding. After you catch the horses (they usually come :-) The girls were taught ...
The last word
... cooking facilities.
Their money - every note looks the same and there are still 1 cent coins. The 5 cent is bigger than the 10 cent. I never quite got used to it. The 1 cents are not worth having.
I'm sure I'll think of lots of other things but that's it for now.
Rightio guys, enough from me. Back to reality now for us, back to work and lots of bookwork to sort out. Catch you in real life soon.
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A whole lotta love for NZ!
... Mum) and really good bars. We stayed there for 4 nights, so got to experience the best places! Oh and there's a burger place called Fergburger which we were told to we had to go to, and we found out that they do burgers that are literally a big as your face. It's such a popular little place but really good food. We also found out that when you're not the soberest and just want the meat from a burger which no actual burger, they fully sympathise ...
At last!
... my first day there since then. I have not been required to drive roller trucks for them, just mostly been doing “***** work,” such as measuring the depth of trenches for the digger drivers and keeping them informed of the measurements. Pretty boring, but at least I’m not getting ordered about all the time. There is a team leader who is very bossy, I tried to help out using a compactor to compact the ground in straight lines. ...
I'm Back!
... Iofs ar det inget ovanligt, haha.
Pa tisdagen var det daligt vader sa vi tog det lungt hela dagen. Det storsta vi gjorde var att aka in till PAKn’SAVE och handla lite igen. Sen drack vi lite te, igen. Jag ar en te drickare men inte jamfort med Paul och Rob!! Och pa kvallen sag vi nagra avsnitt av Father Ted pa datorn. (The Tunnel of goats! Hahaha!)
I onsdags skulle Paul forsoka fixa sin mobil som helt plotsligt slutat ...