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Published: March 8th 2010
First days back
Had to go and check out some coast...2010 is whizzing by! Here we were, thinking we still had plenty of time to enjoy the summer after our wedding, and it’s gone! We are having some much needed R+R after working solidly through our time in NZ, as well as organising our wedding.
The major feature of post-wedding bliss is the pleasant novelty of having time - several evenings were spent doing exactly what we felt like, be it eating pizza, walking around town or drinking with friends. Indeed, the previous sentence speaks volumes about our the tenor of our intentions this summer - as we look at photos taken over the last couple of months, a tale of time spent friends and family unfolds. In more wistful moments we wonder where all the time went...
A few days after the wedding, we looked at the calendar and realised with a fright that there were only a few weekends to play with before our departure. So we planned away - we managed some time in Whangarei with Mon’s folks, an overnight stay on the Awhitu peninsula , which has managed to retain a very old-New Zealand feel, and of course our biannual favourite: Splore, the world’s best festival. Imagine
At work
These are Mon's managers. She assures me they did actually work every so often. a coastal regional park and plonk several stages and a whole lot of wacky art on it to make a place that receives 7000 people and a swathe of international artists rather well. Blazing sunshine made it unbeatable...
Much of our conversation has centred on our future plans, which we had plenty of time to think and talk about during a North Island tour to see some mates and rellies. I intend to do an MA in either international relations or development studies, possibly in Brighton, and Mon has set her sights on a yoga training course. We’re still not sure where we’ll settle, but as you know certainty is a rare commodity with us... Monique has put her name down for a Vipassana meditation course, and we have been asked to house-sit a converted barn that is listed a historical building on London’s Green Belt. Gaah, it’s a hard life...
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