Archiv für den Monat: Juli 2011

I got into Brisbane last night and met the friend I’m staying with at the train station after arriving in the city from the airport. The apartment building we stay in has more than 30 floors, a gym, a sauna and a pool. The weather is blue and sunny with no clouds anywhere and a temperature of about 22 for most of the day. The forecast for the whole week is identical, except for one day when it’s supposed to only have a chilly high of 21 instead. This is the depth of winter and it’s more or less like … Continue reading →

Yesterday I left Hawkes Bay and drove up to Auckland in Harry. I don’t know when I will get a chance to visit again and I’m going to miss all the friends that I made while I was here. The drive was fine – I had packed the night before and managed to get on the road fairly early for a change. I picked up a hitch-hiker just as I was leaving Napier and surprise, surprise, he was German. He was a nice guy and pretty funny, just a young kid over for a year of work and travel in … Continue reading →

Last night I had a farewell dinner with the family here in NZ. I had my last day at work on Wednesday so that I could help them to prepare on Thursday. Spent the day helping to clean the house, going shopping for supplies, and getting the cooking organized. Ok, I might have had a glass of wine in my hand most of the time that I was there but I really was helping too. I’ve never cooked for 14 people before so I made way too much of everything. The fact that only 10 of those people turned up … Continue reading →

Today was my second to last day working on the vineyards – it was a nice sunny day but there was a nasty wind all day which wasn’t so nice. I couldn’t believe it in the afternoon when, despite there being no clouds anywhere in the sky, it just started raining. A „sun shower“ they get called – the wind brings the rain over from the mountains and it made the most beautiful rainbow I’ve seen because there was still so much sun. The work itself was fine, except for having the sun in my eyes all day. Of course … Continue reading →

This Saturday I went to Central Hawkes Bay to visit P. and H. They have such nice properties down there – if you only had money to afford it… Of course by the time I got home from CHB and packed my stuff into Harry I was late leaving to meet B. in Tauranga. Even though I was running late I still had to stop in Taupo just to take a picture of Mount Doom which was looking great in the sunset with awesome clouds around it. I may have found myself speeding just a little trying to make up … Continue reading →