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Mon, 3 Dec 2012 | By andrealaragan | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Originally from the Philippines, me and my family will get our NZ citizenship next year. I'm a BSc Neuroscience graduand and will be a graduate in May! I feel like I've been studying continuously so I am putting off further study until I really know what ...
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Sat, 1 Dec 2012 | By thekiwireporter | Photo Gallery
Hobbits and bicycles
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Sat, 1 Dec 2012 | By thekiwireporter | Views [846]
This week has been the hottest since I arrived and has seen the mania of The Hobbit and a new arrival to my life!
On Wednesday I did some filming, had a massage! Then I strolled into the city centre to see if I could get a glimpse of The ... Read more >
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [289]
Up early and out the door door for a two hour ride to Lake Manapouri to begin the bus/boat/bus/boat trip to Doubtful Sound, a rainforest at a similar latitude to northern Maine. through mostly spitting rain, we saw penguins, shags, gulls and a ... Read more >
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [270]
Began the morning with a short run on bike path path which runs about ten feet from our back patio. Our hotel is right on Lake Waktipu and the bike path runs a mile or so along the Lake before heading out of town. It was quite a luxury to run early in ... Read more >
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [266]
A lazy day from dawn to dusk. We are staying at a very nice hotel right on the lakefront a few K outside Queenstown. We have a very nice two bedroom unit with a large kitchen and livingroom and a deck outside. The accommodation is especially nice because ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 | By thekiwireporter | Views [268]
It is a month into my stay here.
The start of the week kicked off with a meeting with the Red Cross Emergency Disaster Management team, which, as some of you saw, was a successful meeting and am part of the team now (see 'Boiler suit' story). Then ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [241]
It looks as if we've come to another country, though to be honest, I've said this before on this trip. The palm type trees are nearly gone now, replaced by much more familiar looking trees, but on closer inspection the maple leaves are attached ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [369] | Comments [1]
We woke in Betty's Bach (from bachelor, a primitive waterfront cabin), with eyes opening wider and wider at the display of all sorts of water birds (my current favorite is the Various Oyster Catcher, a lot like a Raven with bright red eyes, long pointy ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [721]
I am sitting in bed, the sun is pouring itself over me through our window. It's a slightly hazey dazey, we are not sure this is just the air or if there is some ash in it from Tongariro which decided to belch after over 100 years of dormancy, or maybe ... Read more >
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [248]
Had breakfast with Robert and Beth and headed off at 8 for Dunedin. Stopped about halfway at Fleurs', a highly recommended restaurant well off the beaten path on a bay overlooking the coast and had a suburb seafood chowder and salad. Then after a brief ... Read more >
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [296]
Our itinerary called for a train trip to Arthur's Pass. By the time we arrived in Christchurch it had become obvious to all of us that spending our one day in Christchurch on a train heading away and then back in the evening was not the right answer.... Read more >
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [300] | Comments [2]
we said goodby to Rosie after breakfast and headed off for Christchurch to visit Robert and Beth Winn-Wiliams, also friends from our days in Guelph. We had two options--a coastal route through Marlborough and wine country or a mountain route through ... Read more >
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [294]
We had a wonderful day of touring twitch Rosie yesterday up to Pupu Springs at the top of the South (island). Our friend Rosie said she wanted to drive and we understood why after only a short time. The hill we went up and over took ... Read more >
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [342] | Comments [1]
Claire opted for a day poking around in Nelson and visiting with Rosie. Mark, Pat and I headed off about west northwest to Abel Tasman National Park for a day of "tramping" and kayaking. The park is inaccessible by car. We drove as close as we could ... Read more >
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