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A Field Trip, not a Holiday.
After nearly two weeks of travel I am finally back in Christchurch. I've spent the past hour sorting through my photos, trying to scrape together the memories so that I can form some sort of a logical account of the blur that the past two weeks have been. Does that sentence even make sense? Damn, I never knew traveling was so taxing. At least I …
The Rooster and the Needle.
Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands - my new favourite place in the entire world! I wonder if I'm going to say that about every new country I go to?
My arrival was less than ideal - it was 1.30am, belting it down with rain and I had no idea whether my hotel was expecting me. Thankfully, they were and I collapsed gratefully into bed. A dull …
Raratonga - rrrrather !!
We miss Raratonga in the same way Frank Lampard misses open goals. Every time we think of it. I mention this national humiliation only because we watched Fat Frank miss the proverbial cows **** with a cricket bat for the last and most important of his 148 attempts in a tiny hut 20 yards from the beach at 5am in the morning. And that was the only …
Reunion in Rarotonga
... and visited the local market where it was all happening .
The harbor where we were was not such a good place and although, after a day we no longer had another boat rafted to us we did have the dredge working 24 hours, so it was a very noisy and dirty place. The wind had also swung to the north and was coming straight into the harbor and the swells with it had us leaping up and down and straining the ...
R & R in R
The last few days have been rest and relaxation in Rarotonga. Our days have consisted of eating, sleeping, attending happy hour, driving around the island, more eating, walking on the sand, getting another pedicure, more eating, having a beer, swinging on the hammock, reading and more reading. We attended another spectacular Island Night at the Crown Beach Resort. This time we ...
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