Category Archives: Week 1

Deep (Yet again I am out of titles)

Today was a day of deep meditative reconciliation. Well actually today was a day for doing almost nothing as the weather was not at its best. We had torrential rain and gale force winds all night and well into the afternoon. … Continue reading

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Pancakes

I am finally up to date with the blog, hopefully I can keep it this way. I have just discovered one entry that didn’t get published. If you scroll down the page there is a “new” entry form the Cook Islands entitled … Continue reading

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The 60’s revisited

Starting with this post I have reduced the quality of the pictures to make the uploads smaller. The higher quality ones were taking forever to upload and sucking up all the bandwidth. Let me know if they are OK, in … Continue reading

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To the North of the South

A beautiful start to the day with blue skies and good visibility. After breakfast we headed out to find the northern most part of the South Island, a place called Cape Farewell on Farewell spit. We headed out of Nelson  … Continue reading

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If Those D@mn Wipers Turn on One More Time

Just a quick note, the blog is running a few days behind “real time”, as internet is not as easily accessible as I had hoped. The blog is being written each night, and is uploaded when I can get the WiFi going. … Continue reading

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From North to South

Really must try to get the sleeping under control, for the last week 9PM bed seems to have become the norm, but wake up time hasn’t got correspondingly earlier. Must be all the fresh air! We hit the road about … Continue reading

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Goodbye Paradise Hello NZ

At 5:33 the minivan arrived to take us to the airport, check in was quick and easy as we had purchased a departure tax sticker (NZ$55 each!!) the day before. However passport control was slow, well at least for us … Continue reading

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