Diwali: Festival of Lights *** Diwali: Festival de las luces
An Indian Festival in town, with live entertainment, market and food *** Un festival hindú en el centro, con actuaciones en vivo, un mercadillo y comida
We've landed! / ¡Hemos Aterrizado! October 18th 2008 About the videos (full screen versions available at the end of the blog text - use the small icons) *** Sobre los videos (versión de pantalla completa al final del blog)
1. The Gee Bees
NZ's no. 1 Bee Gees Tribute Band. They're so bad, they're brilliant. Doing a Haka (=Maori war dance) version of Tragedy. A tragedy indeed!! Poor Maurice must be turning in his grave!!!
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The story so far...
We sold our house in the UK back in 2005 to finance a round-the-world trip that would take us to 16 countries in 21 months. 6 of those 21 months were spent in New Zealand, during which time we fell in love with the country and its people; we even got married here!
We went back to the UK at the end of June 2007 but didn't quite settle, so in March 2008 we applied for permanent residence in NZ and this was granted on the 08/08/08. The Chinese were right, that was a lucky day! We arrived here on 18th October, with 4 suitcases full of dreams and hopes (and a few cloth... full info
