It’s 9:30am Tuesday the 20th here in New Zealand as I write, though the server is likely to place a timestamp of Monday afternoon since it’s in New York EDT time. The 16 hour difference between NZ and NY has been the most confusing. We did manage to call home a few times and I […]
Getting Lost in Northland
We drove north again yesterday in order to dine at the Sawmill Cafe in Leigh. Since we had driven past it the day before, and Leigh is on a decent sized road near the coast, no problem, right? Well, at the circle in Matakana we turned left instead of going round the circle to go […]
Adventures in Northland
We are staying in a motel in Orewa, along the east coast about an hour north of Auckland. On Saturday Bill took the reigns, driving us north on Hwy 1. It’s the biggest highway here, but only two lanes, one for each direction, and occasionally a passing lane. The highway runs parallel to the ocean […]
Highlight of the trip
Here’s a highlight of our trip – taking Leka the ferret to the Helensville vet!
Auckland Alehouses
We’ve been enjoying Auckland’s local alehouses – two that brew their own: Shakespeare Tavern and Galbraith’s Alehouse. Shakespeare was fun, very Irish Pub-like, including a chatty and friendly Irish bartender. Galbraith’s knocked our socks off. Really. We tried samples of Bob Hudson’s Bitter, Bellringers Bitter, Bitter and Twisted ESB, Full Nelson (brown ale) and Grafton […]
Update May 15th
Well, blogging has not been a smashing success. Lots to tell and pictures to show, but the combination of being busy and sometimes iffy internet have combined to make the blogging spotty. We are in New Zealand now and about to roam around Auckland. The internet here is great so I uploaded some pictures to […]
Melbourne
Melbourne, our first stop, was a very topsy turvy time. All that jet lag, and then traveling out to the suburbs to go to the first ever Australian Ferret Symposium, and then back to center city again kept all our marbles bouncing around and around. We had a great time seeing old friends and meeting […]
Greetings from Oz
After a horrible drive to JFK, we had a pretty easy trip to Australia – as easy as a 15 hour flight packed in coach can be. A bunch of On Demand movies made the trip go much easier. (I watched Gone Baby Gone, The Savages, Talk To Me, and Margot at the Wedding.) Bill […]
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