Blogs from Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 6

Nous nous arrêtons sur quelques site de tournage du seigneur des anneaux en chemin. Les phoques ne sont pas présents pour notre venue à Wellington dommage... j'en verrai sûrement ailleurs, la cote est belle ! Elle pourrait faire penser à la cote bretonne, ou de la réunion Je file chez Rebecca et Patrick des amis de Xtophe présentés cet été à Gex. Leur maison est parfaite au calme, au dessus des studios de production de Peter Jackson. Le temps est maussade pour notre arrivée ce mercredi. Ils prévoient la pluie pour jeudi, chose faite ! Je visite le musée Te Papa avec Susan, le Bee Hive ( parlement, super intéressant d'assister à une séance d'assemblée nationale!) et cuba street. Cette ville est géniale, petite (à taille humaine pour une capitale), faite sur des collines. Aujourd'hui il ... read more

Well, this is a first - we are now in New Zealand and I haven't finished blogging our South American adventure! My excuse is that we decided to move house almost as soon as we arrived home from our last holiday in April and the time spent preparing our house for sale, selling, searching for a new house, buying a new house, moving house and making it feel like home resulted in zero time for sitting down to finish the blog!! For those who want to know how we spent our last few days in Patagonia you might want to scroll back to previous blogs. I am making a concerted effort to finish recording our last holiday simultaneously with writing about our time in NZ. Gidget and Finbar started their holiday yesterday when I dropped them ... read more

Yes, Busy, but really not. Just enjoying being home here and enjoying the various things we have happening. We seem to journey back and forth to Amy's a lot and we have now caught up with most people after our time away. With the school holidays happening in late September we had Holly and Ella at home with us and then we all headed up to Hastings. Di is going into work on the odd day and it is amazing how time flies. On the last day of September Chris and his friend Kristoffer arrived from Norway for a weeks fishing in Turangi. Di and I picked him up at Napier airport early Friday and after a couple of hours with Amy, Jeremy and the kids Chris, Kristoffer, Jeremy and myself headed off for the 2hour ... read more

We have now been home for 2 weeks, sort of. One week at home and then up to Taupo for a couple of days to inspect Annemarie and Carrardos new house. Most impressed and we know that it will serve them well for family holidays. Di and I still think about a move to Taupo as we love it there so much, but committing to leave Wellington would be very hard. From Taupo we went over the hill to Hastings to catch up with the kids. So nice to see them and have lots of hugs. We did have some trepidation returning to NZ during August, into the cold weather but we have been pleasantly surprised at how lucky we have been with very settled weather and not being to cold. Also quite busy catching up ... read more

So apparently 'Winter' was here, rather than coming (excuse the 'Game of Thrones' reference, I am now hooked and all caught up!?). Along with 'Birthday' season for Ceri, Heidi, Me Tracy and Jade. Ceri started the ball rolling, with her special day being the 10th June when we went to the Hippopotamus Restaurant and Bar located in the Museum Hotel, to celebrate. It's a rather oppulent venue, with great views of the water and renowned for its Art. I'd had a drink in there previously, with Nicole when we'd caught up over Easter. This time, it was for a, 'Hip High Tea', that afternoon which included a cocktail and a GF option. Whoooo Hooo! ?Executive Chef, Laurent Loudeac had lovingly created a beautifully presented, selection of sweet and savoury morsels for us to scoff which was ... read more