Blogs from Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 8

Familiar faces, the smell of eggs and sun burn!!! Its funny we spent less time on the plane between Fiji and New Zealand than we did in the bus getting from Auckland airport to Tauranga. I mean we’d heard the roads weren’t great and their “motor ways” are well not even duel carriageways, but we didn’t really think we would be sitting down for so long. We had got on two buses, the first we were hurried onto at airport after asking the lady at the stop if she could just confirm something for us…”hey you two, British people, this bus is yours” even though the one we were due to get wasn’t for another hour, we’d just arrived early to ask and check. So we got on anyway and confused the driver with our reservation ... read more

Enjoying the Sunshine back in Tauranga Hello folks! For the past two weeks we have been hanging out in Tauranga with our friends from Germany, Chile and US. We have been learning a lot about each others country and even trying to learn how to speak Spanish and German! We even learned how to cricket and quickly learned that the game never ends. One day last week, we all headed to McLaren Falls which is south of Tauranga. It was a good day had by all! We also climbed the Mount again and this time it was much quicker! We all decided to pick kiwifruit flowers for a local contractor here in town. We finally started on Tuesday Nov.10. At the end of each day you weight in and then get paid by the kilo. ... read more

Oh mein Gott, bald ist Weihnachten - und wir sind noch gaaaar nicht im Weihnachtsfieber...... read more

Der September started - nun seit sieben Jahren mit einem Paukenschlag, Tim's Geburtstag. In diesem Jahr soll's mal kein gewoehnlicher Geburtstagsrummel werden, sondern eine Uebernachtung... halleluja. Drei Chaoten hat er eingeladen zu einem Gruselgespenstergeburtstag, gleich am Freitag an seinem Geburtstag. Tage und Naechte vorher waren natuerlich schon schlaflos - fuer alle von uns. Gut, Freitag gegen vier nachmittags, der Spass beginnt. Los geht's mit Fledermauskuchenessen - kann man sich auch schenken, die Jungs sind so aufgeregt und kriegen kaum einen Bissen runter, lieber spielen... ach ja, ab sieben sind die Maedels tabu, Boys only! Nach dem Kuchen gibt's eine Runde Geschenke auspacken und ausprobieren, danach ruft Mama (zur Wahrung der Ruhe) zum Geisterbastelwettbewerb - die Jungs kleistern, pappen, malen und reden reden reden ueber ihre genialen Geister (wie sie stinken und schl... read more

10th July, 2009. Going Home What a day (a very long one at that), up early, out to Riverside in Los Angeles to pick up the RV (had been at Richardsons Service Dept for a few warranty fixes), then back into the city to drop the RV off at the shippers, bit more to it than that as we had to secure everything for shipment, including removing the microwave and electrical appliances as USA voltage is 110 compared to our 240. Gifted the appliances to the people at the shippers and finally headed off to the airport at 3pm. LAX airport is just like all others, a great place to spend some time (like 5 minutes), we were there for 8 hours, amused ourselves reading and sitting on our butts. All aboard at 11pm and lift ... read more