http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Angus--Jo---Ailsa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Angus Jo Ailsa en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:59:23 +0000 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:59:23 +0000 Just the 10 months since we were in Singapore but better late than never I've had these photos loaded against this blog for months so I really need to put a few words around them and hit the 'publish' button.I'm struggling to remember much now but I clearly remember how hot and muggy it was I can only imagine how hot it was for 3 month old Ailsa as at least JoAnn and I had sweat glands And http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-270335.html Kia Ora This is ridiculous 8 months later and I finally remember to write this up Oh well here goes..not sure how much I'll remember nowI think we spent about a week and a half in total at my Mum Dad's new house in Kincraig in what is now the Cairngorm National Park. Its a cracking house in a wonderful area that has come to mean a lot to me over the years since we started holidaying the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Aviemore/blog-268122.html Kia OraTime to catch up on our trip of about 5 months ago How time flies...Ailsa is 8 months old on Tuesday After a brief stopover in London for me to visit a software company that we're working with at the moment JoAnn headed up to Edinburgh ahead of me with Ailsa I arrived in a cold capital to a lift in warm car from my mawinlaw. We spent about 10 days with her in Currie in all with http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-268114.html Kia Ora and a very happy new year to all just the 4 and a half months too late Well I started to add the photos for this blog in January and here we are in April and I'm finally getting round to finishing this one off.Before I get onto Hong Kong here's our new contact details having moved house in Feb121 Creswick TerraceNorthlandWellington 6012New Zealand6404 475 7439Ailsa is doing great http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-237819.html Kia Ora campersIts been sometime and I thought it best to do one of these before we go off on holiday for a month.Well hasn't life changed for us Its been fantastic so far Ailsa is a wee star not just because she sleeps right through the night yay but when she's awake she clearly enjoys life wants to learn and smiles a lot which is all great stuff She turns heads when she's out and wil http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-221454.html G'day cobbersThis almost certainly the last blog before the arrival of Galloway jnr due 16th September so be prepared for less exciting blogs with photos from travels it'll be mostly baby snaps and tales of puke poo and lack of sleep from now onAnyway just a quickie on a couple of recent trips across the ditch to Aus. I work for the Bank of New Zealand which is part of the National Aust http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/blog-191227.html Kia Ora readers. Irsquom last taking a moment to knock up the final blog from our South Island trip of almost 5 months ago now From Queenstown we headed down the road to Te Anau the gateway to the spectacular Fiordland National Park which is the largest national park in NZ and forms part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area as designated by the United Nations. There are 15 fiords in http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fiordland-National-Park/blog-175722.html Howdy all.....Irsquoll pick where I left of which was leaving Wanakakaka in Buzz and heading Queenstown NZrsquos adventure capital. Queenstown sits on the shores of the majestic lightning bolt shaped Lake Wakatipu in Central Otago and is about a 50 minute drive from Wanaka if you take the hilly but direct route through the Cardona Valley like we did. After parking up at the Creeksyde To http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/blog-164379.html Kia Ora campers I'm continuing my trend of blogging approximately 3 months after the event. Indeed I'm heading towards 4 months with this one. We took just over a week off work at the end of February to do our longawaited campervan tour of the lower South Island which wersquove been dying to do since we mover here in March 2005 yes it was over 2 years ago. The last time we toured the S http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/blog-158644.html Now where were we.. Oh yes...t'was the day after the Sevens and the boys were on a road trip or should I say a river trip. We were heading up north to canoe down the Whanganui River. After rehydrating and generally getting in shapes for the journey we stocked up on supplies and began the 5 hour drive. I took McLellan aka Radar as per last blog in our Golf and Morrison aka Padre and Johnst http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wanganui/blog-151954.html Kia Ora chapesses and chaps and welcome to the first real blog of 2007. I can't believe that I've taken so long to write this blog that summer has now been and gone After a very slow start summer eventually arrived in early January and continued on a warm sunny and dry theme until just last week. Last week's weather madness was a cheeky wee storm that blew in with lots of rain thunderstorms http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Coromandel/Hahei/blog-126858.html As some of you will know I took part in a sponsored moustache grow for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. This occured in the month of November or should I say Movember which the month was renamed to for the purposes of the charity tache dash.I raised over 400 which was great and the office team The Mo Szyslaks raised about 1200 in the end. As a reward for the generosity of so many people I http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-115393.html OK so it's now Christmas time but I have been kind of busy No excuse really good enough for taking so long to do a blog of a holiday we took 4 months ago although I did have a big exam etc etc.Anyway in case you haven't guessed we went to Fiji in August for a wee winter warmer break and this is the story of that holiday If I can remember any of it....NZ was having a poor winter weatherwis http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Mamanuca-Islands/blog-90669.html I suppose a benefit from having such a cold and wet winter is loads of snow on the mountains and we took full advantage a few weeks ago when we headed up to Mount Ruapehu in the central North Island for a long skiing weekend. As before we stayed in Ohakune but this time we stayed in a place called The Hobbit Motor Lodge New Zealand's first Mev Berwick themed accommodation. It also suited JoAn http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Tongariro-National-Park/blog-84632.html Hi all from a very wet New Zealand. We've had a weird winter weatherwise overall very wet but we've also had some beautiful weather in between all the crap and gloriously many of those days were on weekends This blog is just a general update on what we've been doing and an excuse to add loads of photos showing Wellington on the nice winter days. One some days we've been able to sit out on http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-75342.html Good old Queen whatever you think of her and her family she does get us a day off every year. We took advantage of this year's Queen's Birthday public holiday to go away to Taranaki for the weekend.The 'naki is the peninsula sticking out of the west coast of the Central North Island and is about 6 hours drive from Wellington. We didn't fancy doing the whole drive in one evening so we stopped http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/New-Plymouth/blog-72724.html Hi all another belated blog that's almost 2 months behind. This is getting a bit like my project at work but not quite as late or over budget of course.Hope you're all well and enjoying some warmer temperatures what I saw of the sport last weekend Golf from Wales and footie from old trafford showed that things were nice and sunny. Its also very sunny here at the moment if a touch parky e http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-64853.html I have been meaning to do some more blogs for so long but there always seemed something else that was more urgent can't whink what though. Anyway its an ugly weather day today there's been a few of them recently you'll all be delighted to hear so its a perfect chance to reel off a few lines and share some photos.JoAnn's Mum arrived a couple of weeks after my folks had headed off and it wa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-56039.html Its shocking that its taken me so long to get round to getting this blog sorted out no excuse really My Mum Dad left us about 5 weeks ago but then JoAnn's Mum arrived and well we've just been busy Doing what I don't know.It was so great to have my Mum Dad visit we had a fantastic time showing them around and I know they had one of the best holidays they've ever had. I think its fai http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington-Region/Wellington/blog-46784.html Wow itrsquos been so long since I managed to do one of these you must have thought we were dead or in prison. Luckily neither of these is the case we've just been very busy especially with first my Mum Dad and now JoAnn's Mum visiting us. More of that later....Apologies in advance for those of you who were hoping for dramatic photos of New Zealand scenery....sorry to disappoint youI http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-42330.html