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Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga June 1st 2010

Como verán en las fotelis, pasamos un cumple muuy lindo!!! No habíamos trabajado en toda la semana por la lluvia y como no podia ser de otra manera ese día trabajamos, por suerte fueron 4 horitas y nos fuimos a casa!! En la semana que tuvimos libre hicimos las tortas varias y empanadas!! Sepan que le ponemos mucha onda ya que no hay dulce de leche y lo hacemos con leche condensada, y las empanadas es masa de tarta recortada igual quedo buenísimo. Nat deleito a las cumpleañeras con una súper Vainitiorta, (no encontramos galletitas de chocolate). A la tarde soplamos las velitas y a la noche hicimos fiesta en casa y salimos por ultima vez a la Fiesta Latina lo pasamos súper lindo!!!!!! Muchas Gracias por los saludos!!!!! Besos!!!! Las girls!!! ... read more
Preparativos!!
Preparativos!!
Preparativos!!

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga June 1st 2010

I am happy to be employed and I’m even more happy about the fact that I’m doing something that can be called Kiwiana (think Canadiana). However, picking kiwi fruit is fairly hard work. You throw a harness over you shoulder with a large wire reinforced bag that rests in front of your stomach, and start picking your way through the orchard. The vines are supported by wires strung along posts that have been set wide enough apart for a tractor and trailer to drive between. The tractors pull 3 4’x4’x2.5’ bins and we fill them as quickly as possible. We get paid $12 New Zealand per bin after tax, but it doesn’t matter how many people are working on them. 12 people working means $1 per person per bin. The fewer the people the bigger the ... read more
The Orchard 2
The Lines
Kiwis

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga May 28th 2010

Hey everyone, Whangarei was a bust for the job market so Kerstin and I have traveled down to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty (not to be confused with the Bay of Islands). The hostel we’re staying at is called, I kid you not, “Just the Ducks Nuts” which just about made me spit out the water I was drinking (a similar incident happened when I had to explain to Kerstin and a girl from France named Julie what marital aid meant ) when I was told it was a viable option for our stay in the Bay of Plenty. There was a nice walk to a waterfall and through a little bit of Kauri forest (forest is a strong word as there were less than a dozen Kauri trees) and along the river back into ... read more
Top of the Falls
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Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga May 15th 2010

Hola a todos!!! esta entrada es para contarles los festejos del cumple de Nati!!! El viernes a la tarde Mechi y Pachi arrancaron con los preparativos... Comimos con nuestras amigas chilenas y el pololo de una de ella una buenisima cazuela de carne con papas que hizo mama pachi! de postre invitamos a parte del vecindario para cantar el primer Feliz Cumpleaños y los deleitamos con tarta de Kiwis que hizo mechi, (como no podia ser de otra manera) Mer y Paz quisieron sorprender a Nati y le dijeron que no iban a ir a bailar porque a el sabado trabajaban (lo cual era verdad) Nati no insistió ni un poco, no se sabe si estaba ofendida o si las chicas no eran tan importantes, pero como las chicas si se creían esenciales le regalaron una ... read more
Cumple Nati
Cumple Nati
Cumple Nati

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga May 1st 2010

Hola gente linda que nos sigue!!!! Pensaron que estabamos muertas o desaparecidas? No todavía... pero vamos camino a eso jajaja. Hace como un mes o un poco más que estamos viviendo en Papamoa, Tauranga. Vivimos en un resort super lindo, Pacific Palms Papamoa (www.pacificpalmsresort.co.nz por si son chusmas). El lugar es divino, increible y todo lo que se imaginen. La playa está a escasas 2 cuadras pero la verdad que ni vamos. En el resort contamos con pileta climatizada, jacuzzi y cancha de tenis. Ahora empezó a hacer un poco más de frío así que tanto no usamos esas cosas, de todos modos nuestra casa es super linda! Ya vamos a subir fotos así ven un poco las instalaciones. Vivimos con nuestras 2 amigas chilenas Karen y Pau. La convivencia es de 10 así que todas ... read more
Mt Manganui
Previa enTauranga
Previa enTauranga

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga January 18th 2010

Tauranga for New Years Celebrations! So the hitching began looking to replicate the same success of previous efforts. Within minutes we’d been picked up by a nice guy on the way to pick his boss up from the airport. Great, airport in Tauranga would be just fine, that was until 10 minutes later when he pulled up at Rotorua airport and let us out. Grrr! We were grateful for the lift don’t get me wrong but now we were perched next to a fast flowing busy main road where the likelihood of anyone being able to see our sign as they passed, never mind have the time to pull over, was slim. However we gave it a go and as luck would have it a white Land Cruiser pulled up with our host driver for the ... read more
Raewynne with her daughter, mum and dad
On the beach by Mount Maunganui
Rock pools at the base of Mount Maunganui

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga December 28th 2009

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Hello! Hope you all had a great Christmas and kept warm! We certainly enjoyed ourselves in the sun! It was very different celebrating Christmas without any snow!! Christmas for us consisted of eating pancakes, bacon (kiwi style) eggs and fried shrimp in the morning- It was most delicious! In the afternoon, we basked in the sun with our hostel friends and chilled out. In the evening, our hostel had a potluck dinner which was very delicious and we brought surprise spread and it went over well. Although they didn't have seafood sauce we substituted it with salsa. Our hostel "mom" baked a traditional kiwi style dessert called pavlova roll with fresh fruit along with peanut clusters (we know them as "haystacks") . Later in the evening, we jammed with ... read more
Christmas Brunch
Carla in her Santa Hat
Cranberry  Juice

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga December 21st 2009

How are you all? Well, I shall spend my first Christmas away from the UK and it feels a bit strange. As summer is kicking in here in New Zealand it seems odd that the sun goes down at 9pm at Christmas time - how can kids be in bed for Santa when it's still sunny? I will begin the travel part back in Sydney. Hmmm... My last entry slated Sydney but to some extent I think that coming from Manilla direct to there was perhaps too much of a contrast. Sure it has wonderful weather and the the landmarks we have come to recognise - the opera house and harbour bridge are worth a look, it just felt a bit like the UK, only with more convicts. In fairness I did quite like it ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga December 4th 2009

Advent, Advent ein Lichtlein brennt - der Countdown hat mal wieder begonnen. Linus Geburtstag, Nikolaus, Weihnachten und Silvester... eine einzige non-stop-party!... read more
ade 2009!
einmal im Jahr...
ohhh, ahhh, ...

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga November 28th 2009

Seguimos aca en Tauranga. Mañana nos vamos para Gisborne. Esta semana cambiamos de opinion excesivas veces, pasamos por todas las opciones en los ultimos 3 dias. Desde ir a trabajar a una fabrica de comida de perros, hasta hacer woofing, hasta comprar un auto...de todo!!! Nos frenamos con el auto por Paz que es la mente fria del grupo, si fuera por mer y nat ya estariamos en un autazo!ajajaja Nos decidimos por Gisborne porque parece que por alla hay trabajo. Conocimos a una francesa aca en el hostel asi que nos vamos con ella en el auto (ella habla perfecto castellano asi que seguimos sin practicar ingles jajaj). Conseguimos trabajo en la fish factory (paz y nati) pero fue too much! Fuimos hoy sabado a trabajr 6 horas haciendo packing, a Mer la contrataron para ... read more




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