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Each journey begins with a single step... Two kiwis escaping from the island to explore strange new worlds and boldly go where thousands have gone before... . .

Movember already

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Nov 2011 | Views [877]

Hmmm, it seems that 2 monthly suits the lifestyle here better, or is it just that as we grow older time passes more quickly? We are into the warmer weather and now sleep with our windows open to hear the birds in the bush behind both for the evening ... Read more >


AAGGHH September already! 2 months has passed!

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011 | Views [1049]

My promise to myself was to blog at least once a month, surely it has only been a month... Kent's birthday tomorrow, the 7th, that means it's September mmm, the last blog was 6 July. I guess a lot has been going on (she says thinking hard). Lots has ... Read more >


Mid-winter July in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 6 Jul 2011 | Views [1006]

It has taken longer than expected to get back on here, our apologies... We have now moved into our 'new' home, it's big brick place on the side of the small mountain called Mount Ngongotaha situated right beside the small city of Rotorua. We have ... Read more >


Muddily May

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 13 May 2011 | Views [770]

We daily run the gambit of changing climate, today we had an extremely misty morning which developed into overcast then the sun came out in the afternoon but by 5pm huge black clouds came over and down came the rain. It has been a good month. Kent's ... Read more >


April in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 Apr 2011 | Views [790] | Comments [2]

We have had some much cooler weather in the end of March and definitely feel autumn on its way. This is a magic time in Rotorua with the beautiful colours on the trees going from yellow all through the range to a deep red. The sun still has plenty ... Read more >


the big C

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011 | Views [1210] | Comments [1]

This month has been a real doozy!  At the end of February Carol was recalled to see a surgeon after a routine mammogram showed that she had breast cancer. After a biopsy we were told she had grade III infiltrating ductal carcinoma, meaning that the ... Read more >


Living back in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Views [925]

We are both working and living here in this beautiful city, Kent at his old job and Carol is delivering census forms for Statistics NZ. Our census day is March 8th, deliveries up until then and then collections after if people fill in the paper forms, ... Read more >


Living back in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 31 Jan 2011 | Views [906]

Today is Monday the 31st January 2011 and it is a holiday (Auckland Anniversary Day) for the Auckland province which includes Rotorua somehow, even though we are part of the Bay of Plenty province... Any holiday is a good day right! Not that Carol ... Read more >


And finally home again

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 7 Jan 2011 | Views [912]

We arrived back in NZ on the 3rd of December, today is the 7th of January and that month has flown by. As yet we are still not settled and have been buzzing about like bees in a bush over the last few weeks. The first week was spent in Auckland staying ... Read more >


Gold Coast, Australia

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 25 Nov 2010 | Views [939]

We arrived in Brisbane at 9.30am along with 6 other flights from all parts of the globe. After customs, getting our bags, and immigration all took so long we were wondering if we would ever get out of the airport when yeah a uniformed lady directed us ... Read more >


Hong Kong

HONG KONG | Friday, 19 Nov 2010 | Views [1203]

Our Qantas flight left for Hong Kong 12.30 midday, Friday 19th from Heathrow. We flew for 12 hours and arrived in Hong Kong at 8.30am Saturday. Carol's family had given us great directions and all sorts of options on how to get to their apartment. ... Read more >


Last days of UK

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 18 Nov 2010 | Views [956]

It was lucky that we came across from Europe early as the day after our ferry crossing a storm swept down the strait for two days and the seas became so rough that the ferries stopped sailing. It cleared on Saturday and we headed back down to Dover ... Read more >


last days of Europe

FRANCE | Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010 | Views [870]

We drove from Paris up to Bologne Sur Mer where we spent the evening with Clara & Gilles-yann who we had met and travelled a little with in South America. We caught up on our travels, they have been to NZ since we saw them last, and spent the night.... Read more >


Paris touristy bits – 8 November

FRANCE | Monday, 8 Nov 2010 | Views [837]

Up and on the road by 9.30 with the computer telling us it was only 4 degrees celcius – yeah right – yes right! It was bloody freezing out there. By the time we got to the centre it had also started to rain, any colder and ... Read more >


The Louvre, Paris, France – 7 November

FRANCE | Sunday, 7 Nov 2010 | Views [789]

After talking until 2am with Nazih we were up at 8 and getting ready to head into Paris to the Louvre museum. We had been briefed by Nazih on how to negotiate the bus, suburban train and metro system and had no problems ... Read more >


Versailles Palace, France – 6 November

FRANCE | Saturday, 6 Nov 2010 | Views [874]

This morning we were up and organised for the 9am start only to find that there was some sort of strike meeting on at the palace and opening was delayed until about 10.30am. Kent is off his leg at the moment and has to get ... Read more >


La Loire, France – 4 & 5 November

FRANCE | Friday, 5 Nov 2010 | Views [871]

4/11 – We spent a dreary morning in the city of Tours finding the Tourism Office (huge but right in the centre) then finding a park (used a handicapped one in the end) and finding out info about the area. Got some supplies ... Read more >


to Bretagne (Brittany), France 30 October to 3 November

FRANCE | Wednesday, 3 Nov 2010 | Views [1055]

30/10 Rained all night, it's quite nice sleeping in a nice cosy spot with it on the roof, but cleared in the morning. Long straight roads today, fairly boring, on the southwest of France to Bordeaux but no views of the coast.... Read more >


Matamorisca, Spain to the beginning of France 27 – 29 October

SPAIN | Friday, 29 Oct 2010 | Views [1139]

Alfonzo and Natasha's house is cool, rebuilt using recycled stone and wooden beams from demolished old building on their section and Alfonso has done a lot of the work himself. They have two lovely wee girls who were a ... Read more >


West to Salamanca, Spain then NE Portugal and back into the NW of Spain 23 – 26 October

PORTUGAL | Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 | Views [971]

We crossed the huge flat plains to Salamanca and on to the border of Portugal. We discovered the Portugal radio stations play music yeah! The border between Portugal and Spain is the huge river Douro, flanked by terraced ... Read more >


Avila and Gredos, Spain 20 – 22 October

SPAIN | Friday, 22 Oct 2010 | Views [913]

Domingo's mother and sister were so welcoming and kind, they fed us in the evening and we caught up on our washing as well, in the morning his mum was very worried because we didn't want to have breakfast (we find we usually ... Read more >


to Zuera and Zaragosa, Spain 19 October

SPAIN | Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 | Views [953]

Next morning we headed for Zuera, Spain which is the home town of an old beau of Carols, Domingo. We had rung his mother earlier and discovered that Domingo went into hospital in Zaragosa last Wednesday and were invited ... Read more >


Montrejeau & Lourdes, France 18 October

FRANCE | Monday, 18 Oct 2010 | Views [925]

We came to a roundabout that circled a HUGE rock (una mas grande roca!) and on the other side was the old border to exit Spain and enter France. Before we knew it we were in Montrejeau and turned up a hill and ended up in a ... Read more >


Spain and Andorra 17 & 18 October

ANDORRA | Monday, 18 Oct 2010 | Views [838]

We entered Spain at Puigcerda, having been diverted around the town of Bourg-Madame because of a big market day and losing our way and completely missing going through the old border post. We had to stop at a garage and ask where we were in relation ... Read more >


France 15 & 16 October

FRANCE | Saturday, 16 Oct 2010 | Views [732]

We skirted Montpellier taking the road out by the Mediterranean Sea but it wasn't that exciting and the wind was still up and still cold so the beach wasn't the place to be. It is a sandy beach down this way, not pebbly like the beaches further ... Read more >


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