NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Nov 2011 | Views [903]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011 | Views [1071]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 6 Jul 2011 | Views [1028]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 13 May 2011 | Views [796]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 Apr 2011 | Views [818] | 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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011 | Views [1237] | 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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Views [945]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 31 Jan 2011 | Views [928]
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 >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 7 Jan 2011 | Views [965]
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 >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 25 Nov 2010 | Views [974]
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 | Friday, 19 Nov 2010 | Views [1232]
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 >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 18 Nov 2010 | Views [1009]
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 >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010 | Views [910]
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 >
FRANCE | Monday, 8 Nov 2010 | Views [863]
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 >
FRANCE | Sunday, 7 Nov 2010 | Views [814]
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 >
FRANCE | Saturday, 6 Nov 2010 | Views [926]
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 >
FRANCE | Friday, 5 Nov 2010 | Views [895]
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 >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 3 Nov 2010 | Views [1122]
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 >
SPAIN | Friday, 29 Oct 2010 | Views [1162]
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 >
PORTUGAL | Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 | Views [990]
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 >
SPAIN | Friday, 22 Oct 2010 | Views [946]
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 >
SPAIN | Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 | Views [979]
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 >
FRANCE | Monday, 18 Oct 2010 | Views [950]
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 >
ANDORRA | Monday, 18 Oct 2010 | Views [858]
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 | Saturday, 16 Oct 2010 | Views [755]
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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