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I tried to post this last night, but for some reason WordPress, or maybe Firefox, wouldn’t let me. Tonight I’m (sadly) using Microsoft Edge. Fingers crossed it works. I’ll say one thing. The Grand Mercure is a hang of a … Continue reading →

It wasn’t such a rush this morning, but we went down for breakfast – in the Ruapehu Room. There were various fruits available, bacon, scrambled eggs, fried tomatoes, sausages, hash browns, hot cakes, pancakes, mushrooms, baked beans, pastries – small … Continue reading →

I didn’t get much sleep last night. I got up soon after putting the light out to turn the air conditioner on. They had it at 16˚, which I thought sounded a bit cold, so I turned it up to … Continue reading →

I know, that’s not a very exciting heading, but I haven’t had time prior to this to try to get this entry into my blog sorted. I’ve been too busy with trying to create this year’s Christmas card (fail, so … Continue reading →

Behind the doors of a top secret base on a South Pacific Island…  A short note: As I’ve used a number of Maori words in this report, I will try to give you some idea of how to pronounce them. … Continue reading →

We’ve made it home safely, and I’ve spent all afternoon unpacking, reading over 100 emails, and posting the last two days’ blogs. As today wasn’t so interesting, I’ll hold off posting it until tomorrow. Night, night. This is how interesting … Continue reading →

31st July 2016 I had a good night’s sleep. D.C. reckoned she was too hot to sleep. After getting washed and dressed, and having half a “One Square Meal” bar each for breakfast, we went down to check out of … Continue reading →

We’re moving out of the Bay Plaza Hotel today and the WiFi’s not so good at the Waterloo nor the Station Hotel, so I won’t be updating my blog again until we get home on Monday afternoon. See you then. … Continue reading →

Today was another lovely, fine, almost cloudless, almost windless, day. We had our porridge and fruit for breakfast and then got ready to go out. Today we were planning on going to Zealandia. This is another place that we’d been … Continue reading →

I haven’t had the chance to write up today’s blog, (I haven’t finished yesterday’s yet!), but here’s some photos from today. Remember these are 2.4 times human scale. During the night the wind roared against the side of the building. … Continue reading →