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I won’t lie, the Taupo Cycle Challenge was bloody hard! It’s interesting how quickly you forget, though. The very next day I decided I want to do it all over again next year. At our wedding a couple of months earlier, Dee managed to convince Isaac and I to take part in this madness. We’d…
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We spent the night at one of our most favourite places – Warm Earth Cottage. Beautiful gardens, running creek, outdoor wood fire heated bath, big breakfast. Our Photos
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Cat – she came to us in our time of need and delighted us with her funny antics and affectionate disposition. She visited us every day for a few months. She totally changed my mind about cats. But one day she was not waiting at the door for us in the morning. A few weeks…
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Its Auckland day long weekend and there’s jet fuel in the air. As usual during my lunch break from work I pedaled my little bike on down to the airport…a little busier than usual. Normally I sit there alone and relax whilst a few cessnas practice taking off and landing, gyroplanes hover about and the…
What better way to finish off a Monday afternoon – lets go fly a plane. Meg decided to throw me into a Cessna 182 for my birthday and see if I could crash it. Sadly I disappointed her and took off and landed without incident. She decided to give me a short introductory flight, I…
Our final stop before jumping on a long list of flights back to Brisbane – Helsinki. An unusual mix of cultures, quite Scandinavian with a dash of Russian and Eastern Europe thrown in. It was our first snowed covered city in a long time. The brisk air, the gritted streets, the romantic lights strewn throughout…
So far so good. A little bit of jumping around with flights but we’re up north, far north. Been a bit of a hectic few days, wrapping up things in Edinburgh and leaving our Scottish home and jumping on three planes. Yesterday we flew from Edinburgh down to London then onto Helsinki. Got in late,…
Well it was an early start for a Saturday, well for us anyway. We’d organised to go for a bit of a hike up through the Pentlands Hills, with some new friends Renata & Pawel. We work with Renata at RSTO and they just recently made the move from Paisley to Edinburgh. Last week we…
Well aren’t we lucky… We just had Isaacs parents come to visit not too long after we had Megs parents visit, we really are spoilt. We did the usual Edinburgh site seeing stuff – the royal mile, princes st, arthurs seat, you know.. Edinburgh. Ma got a bit cold walking around the base of Edinburgh…
Well we had planned to stay near Milan in Lake Como, but found at this stage of the game it was more trouble than it was worth. It is a little out of the way from Milan and would’ve made our next leg far more difficult than we anticipated. We thought it would be a…
On the tedious train down to Sorrento we glanced out the window at the wonderful views of the Mediterranean, whilst looking on the other side there seemed to loom a large cylindrical mountain…Mt Versuvius. As we passed through station “Pompei – Villa dei Misteri” we saw some ruins perched on top of a nearby hillside,…
Unfortunately it was raining and cloudy while we were in Florence. Nevertheless we managed to join in a free walking tour, which took us around the city. We checked out the Ponte Vecchio (“Old Bridge”) which is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, noted for still having shops built along…
After a restful day in our apartment we made our way to see the old cite of Carcassonne. Our room was so dark that we slept most of the day thinking that it was overcast and rainy outside. However, when we opened the shutters at about 8pm we were faced with a perfect sunset. We…
After leaving Granada we traveled up via another night train to Barcelona. We had our own room on the train with a bathroom, which included a shower! Can’t say I’ve ever showered on a train before… We arrived in Barcelona on Sunday morning and began the walk to our hostel when we came across some…
Yesterday we rose early to join a tour into the desert where we camped out in the dunes for the night. This tour (via mini-bus) took us up the Atlas Mountains again, but this time continued over and into the edge of the Western Sahara to a place called Zagora, just spitting distance from the…
We have become quite the bargaining team, Isaac and I. We go to a shop in which we see something we want. We inspect the item until the shop owner approaches. We ask how much, then gasp and carry on at the outrageous price they offer. Then the negotiations begin: they say “Name your price”.…
We’re back in Marrakech! Well we did enjoy our trip to the High Atlas Mtns although seems we got a bit of a tummy bug and spent a chunk of it on the loo 🙁 So unfortunately spent the best part of yesterday indoors. To make matters just a little more uncomfortable it was REALLY…
We are at the southernmost point on our journey (Marrakech), from here its only up. Sorry no pictures as of yet. It was a pretty drab day, overcast and rainy and an overnight on a train. Concentrated mainly on the travel, with over 1000kms or travel down and starting to feel it a little. Caught…
Got up nice and early and headed to the train station with what we thought was heaps of time but… turns out day light savings put the clocks forward 1hr and no one decided to tell us…YAY! No thats not right, okay missed the train. We had checked out, had our bags with us and…
Strolled along the beach across the the other headland of Monte Igueldo. Beach was abuzz with all manner of activities on such a super saturday. Kids playing soccer, people out sailing, paddling kayaks and generally lazying about sunbathing. Headed up Monte Igueldo on the funicular, a very steep train carriage thingy, for some awesome views.…
We are finally here, 27hrs of travel and surprisingly we have caught up the time pretty well. Got into Paris @ 630am caught the train into town, dropped off our backpacks and headed out. Was very impressed with Gare-du-Nord, will have to take some pics of it. Walked down Blvd Rochechouart on the way to…
1. Paris – Orleans – Blois – Amboise – Tours 2. Blois – Bordeaux – Gujan Mestras (seafood) – Arcachon Basin (Coastline, pine forest hikes, fishing villages) 3. Bordeaux – San Sebastian 4. San Sebastian – Madrid 5. Madrid – Seville (stay) – Seville – Algeciras – Tanger – Marrakech – Marrakech – Casablanca –…
Backpack Invest the extra money to get a comfortable backpack that fits well. Your backpack is your constant companion and the key to comfort and convenience on your trip, so take care to choose the right one. You’ll be glad you did! Anything larger then 4500 CUI is going to be more trouble then it…
12mths Travel & Work Plans March – Sept (7mths) – UK UK work Sept Mid Travel Paris, North France Sept End – France Do a Chalet Host course for 1wk, involves cooking etc in Chamonix (great for B&B and hosting, possible option in NZ) Oct-Nov – Europe (between UK & start work in France) Travel…