Blogs from Oceania - page 6580

Well, here it is folks, a little overdue but high time we wished you all a very Happy New Year. I would like to say that we had a better New Year's than we did Christmas but once again the weather and a bunch of inconsiderate travellers once again conspired to dampen our spirits. It wasn't all bad news as we did head back over to Taita on New Year's Eve to meet David's son. When we came to New Zealand, we had hoped to make contact with David, a cousin of Glynn's mum. Meeting him was brilliant and when he told us he had a son who was dying to meet us, we were chuffed to bits. Aaron was certainly a chip off the old block. He had inherited David's laid-back approach to life and ... read more

Back to a big city and Wellington it was to see in the new year. Spent the day looking around Te Papa, a massive museum and easy to spend most of the day in, which is exactly what happened. Weather got worse in the afternoon with plenty of wind and rain, Wellington more than living up to its infamous reputation. Headed out for the evening to the main Civic Square for New Years. However the band and celebrations were cancelled due to the weather so went to a few bars in the main street and saw in the new year in an Irish pub, Kitty O'Shea's. Midnight came and went, nothing like the big countdown they have in the UK but a good night nevertheless. Checked out and packed up ready for South Island. But first ... read more

Three years ago I came to the conclusion that New Years Eve is, in fact, overrated. I had spent one to many 31st of Decembers shivering in the rain at the Bay, listening to crappy DJ's at the Bentleys or worse still staying home coz there was nothing else worth doing. Thankfully, New Years Eve 2005 was a major improvement, with a road trip to Robe, a lively pub, lobster and great company. New Years Eve 2006 set to build on this new tradition and when I decided I was coming home for Christmas a lot of my excitement came from knowing that I would not miss out on the Robe trip. After an early start dropping Mum and Dad at the airport to fly off to Coolangata, I headed to Cherida's house to wake up ... read more

Another long time with no news from us! sorry guys, would love to say we've been far too busy but that'd be a lie, would love to say there's been nowhere to access the internet, but that'd be another one(play stick cricket or write a blog??????? hard choice really!) Basically after nicky left we had a nice chilled out time up to the point of meeting Bobby (for those of you who don't know, Rob's (friend from blackpool ) sister and hubby emigrated to oz a year or so ago, he's come over for a month to see here and with circumstances working very well managed to catch us for the last week we were in Oz! Awesome! And very very heavy! So we're in singapore now, and so far have done nothing but chilled out ... read more

Sunday 31st December 2006 For an 'alternative' New Year (instead of the usual pissed-up version) we decided to give 'Party Pills' another go (after getting advice on what we did and didn't want, based on last time). We took them and watched a Manga DVD called Appleseed, which borrowed plot from Greek mythology and was very deep... These party pills definitely had a more pronounced effect... The film took an extra hour to watch because of our constant pausing to discuss it... Then Lisa started feeling really ill - nauseous. I wasn't as bad, but did get a very hot/cold flushes and was immensely interested in the detail of everything - including a cat over the road (which I initially suspected to be a carrier bag) which I spotted out of the window and had to ... read more