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Happy New Year – 2025!
That, more or less, was the poem I sent to my friends as a Happy New Year greeting. I had it all ready to go at about 12.30am, but the Wi-Fi wasn’t cooperating. So I tried to send it in … Continue reading
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Tagged kaikoura, New Zealand, picton, railways, south-island, travel
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New Year’s Eve – Counting Down…
31 December 2024 I was awake at 6.30, so I decided to get up-to-date on my blogs. But my laptop started running out of juice, so I went into the lounge and plugged it in. And got up-to-date! And typed … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, fireworks, history, new-years-eve, restaurants, travel
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Two Islands
30 December 2024 This morning, we started out at the Thunderbird Café, where I had French Toast without cream and lemon honey ginger tea. I would really like something healthy like porridge, but nowhere seems to have anything like that. … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, botanic-gardens, cable-car, cooks-strait, New Zealand, picton, travel, wellington
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We Survived… Just.
29 December 2024 This is being typed, whilst sitting on the Bluebridge Ferry “Strait Feronia” on the 30th. Having left at 1.34pm. But now we’re looking back to a different form of transport. Our long bus trip finally arrived in … Continue reading
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Tagged downtown-backpackers, family, New Zealand, parliament, toss-woolaston, travel, waterloo, wellington
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Never by bus again
28 December 2024 Even though we had the ceiling fan turning, I found it too hot during the night. Pen, conversely, found it too cold. If we have a similar arrangement later, we’re going to swap beds. We took our … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, auckland, bus, New Zealand, north-island, travel, travel-sickness
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A little breezy trip
27 December 2024 Today was slightly windy. Slightly, as in the forecast was for 39 km/h sou’sou’westerly winds. I’d known that this was possible since Tuesday and had been concerned. You see, Fullers 360 Ferries don’t like landing at Rangitoto … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, auckland, ferry, fullers, New Zealand, travel, windy
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Boxing Day
26 December 2024 The weather forecast for today was for showers and possible thunderstorms, so we made the decision to go for a walk to Islington Bay whilst it was still fine, and hopefully get back before the weather packed … Continue reading
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Tagged auckland, New Zealand, rangitoto-island, Thunderbirds, tramping, travel
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Christmas Eve
24 December 2024 (written 12:49 pm Christmas Day) Breakfast for me was a freeze-dried Back Country Cuisine “Supreme Porridge” (which has apple apricot) with some sunflower seeds and cranberries thrown in. Which I find really tasty. I also had a … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, bach, bear, ferry, penguin, rangitoto-island, travel
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And we’re off!
Here we go. Blog day one… With no photos. If I can believe my smartwatch, I walked 21182 steps over 15 kilometres today. Most Saturdays I walk to Kuranui Bay and then on the way back I stop at D.C.’s … Continue reading
2024/2025 SCALLYwag Safari
Hello everyone What’s this? A new blog entry? Yep. That’s because my English pen pal, Pen, (and I always want to write Pen pal because of it), has decided that she wants to see the pōhutukawa in flower and is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, 2025, adventure, New Zealand, Pen, Scott, travel
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Purupuss's Purrings 