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...
Dec 21, 2017 | South East Asia
We headed off with Daniel on our 29 hour journey to Wellington, New Zealand via Auckland. We have an AirBnB over Christmas big enough for the four of us and Cameron’s girlfriend Eithne. We are meeting the two of them when Cameron finishes work. It has great...
Dec 15, 2017 | South East Asia
We’re careering off on Tuesday 19 December to South East Asia for almost 3 months. We’re going via New Zealand for Christmas to visit Cameron and Eithne (that’s pronounced “Enya” – some thing to do with Gaelic – don’t...