Jan 8, 2018 | South East Asia
We didn’t take the Road to Mandalay. We flew there. Firstly we spent two nights in Yangon. The first day we wandered around town, starting in the market. I find the local markets fascinating for the range of strange foods that we don’t get back home. Yangon has a...
Jan 2, 2018 | South East Asia
We spent a night in Auckland before flying on to Hong Kong on 30 December for 2 nights. We arrived late afternoon and tried to go up on the Peak Tram for a night-time view of the lights of the city. There was a massive queue so we went for a few drinks instead to Lan...
Dec 27, 2017 | South East Asia
The earth moved in bed last night. Unfortunately it was due to an earthquake. It was 3.6 but that’s pretty common when you live over a fault. We visited Zealandia for a guided tour. Zealandia is a project to restore an area of nature to it’s pre-settler...
Dec 26, 2017 | South East Asia
Christmas in the Southern hemisphere is a bit odd. We had to go to the beach on Christmas day. We decided to do Christmas differently and have an “upside down” Christmas. So we did Turkey kebabs on the barbie. In keeping with the Kiwis’ lukewarm...
Dec 24, 2017 | South East Asia
Wellington is the windiest city in the world. Despite that, most houses are built from wood and corrugated iron. Now I know where the inspiration for “The Three Little Pigs” children’s story came from. Fortunately there’s no sign of the wolf. I...
