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June 20th 2012
Today I had my last ride round the inlet before heading of on my adventure on Friday. Captain Martin arrives down from Greytown on Thursday night, and then we are off to the airport bright and early to fly to Christchurch at 6.45am. Wait around for a while then off to Singapore for a 5 hour stopover then onto Frankfurt for a 9 hour stopover. Finally onto Dubrovnic, where we arrive on the evening of the 23rd. A bloody long trip but I'm sure that when we get there we can sit back and relax for the night before starting to ready the yacht for the trip. Now I'm starting to get excited. A few more photos of the beautiful Pauatahanui inlet for practise sake. taken this morning in the misty rain but with no wind. ... read more
June 19th 2012
I am now becoming excited about heading off on Friday. The follwing photos are more for practise than to be informative and are all of Pauhatanui Inlet as I either walk or bike around the inlet. There are also a couple from the house. As from Friday there will be more interesting{I hope} ones to look at.... read more
Approaching departure date.
Published: June 18th 2012Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington
June 18th 2012
Only 3 more full days to get everything sorted. Starting to get a wee tickle of excitement coming through. It has been so cold, but I keep on telling myself that this time next week I will be moaning about the heat.... read more
June 14th 2012
Friday next week is departure date, and from then on I will hopefully have heaps of material to make this blog an interesting site to look at. At present, I will continue to practise and and try to make perfect.... read more
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June 9th 2012
Up at the crack of dawn and into Wellington with my brother-in-law before 7.30 – desirable to “beat the traffic”. David went to work, leaving Valda and I to explore and to buy our final gifts for family etc. We started off by walking around the harbour area, taking in the atmosphere of the buildings etc. Wellington has done a good job in making the harbour an interesting place to walk around. During the day we explored the shops looking for tourist gifts to take back home and found two extremes - cheap tacky souvenirs and very expensive gift shops, but found nothing in the middle. It was our fault of course for leaving things to the last minute to get our presents. We took the cable car up the hill to the Botanic Garden – ... read more
Tuesday 6th and more practice
Published: June 5th 2012Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington
May 27th 2012
I have just retired from a career in retailing and the oppurtunity to join a friend on his yacht, sailing from Croatia to Turkey, from mid June to early Sept, was just too great an opportunity to miss. So, the preparation begins. Cycling and swimming daily, the cycling around the beautiful Pauhatanui inlet, hopefully will get me fit enough to handle all demands.... read more
April 29th 2012
Wellington Our last stop in the North Island was for a weekend in Windy Welly! And boy it lives up to its name. We arrived there stiff legged (walking like penguins, seriously) in the afternoon and got checked into our city centre, waterfront campervan site! It was pretty cool to be sleeping and using toilets/showers in the city centre. One of our neighbours even decided to avail of the facilities by walking with only a towel covering them across the site to the shower… I think the option of changing clothes in there might have been wise?! So John needed to get a haircut and we went in search of a place while taking in the feel of the city. It was clear there are definitely an eclectic mix of people living here and there was ... read more
April 23rd 2012
First off I would like to say I'm sorry for not updating this sooner. I got pretty busy with school work and writing a blog just didn't appeal to me. Anyway, for the second part of my break (which was almost a month ago) I went to Wellington. Wellington is more of an artsy town so I wasn't really a fan of it. It was nice and cute, but I couldn't live there. It is also the Captial of New Zealand. While I was there I went to the Te Papa Museum which was massive. It's the museum of New Zealand and has six floors. It took me awhile to go through everything but I enjoyed it, especially the section that contained Maori information. I also went to the Wellington Museum of City and Sea. This ... read more
