Today I woke up at 11:30am! Jeff woke me up in the middle of the night saying that he couldn’t sleep. After that I couldn’t get back to sleep until almost 4am. I woke up sometime in the early morning, heard the rain and went back to bed. Yep. I said rain. Great huh? It Read More »
7/16 Today we had some nice lectures. Nicolas Friend (who I found out today has a son named Rupert Friend, who is dating Keira Knightley or something, yikes) talked about the power of props and poses in portrait paintings. Alliteration, woo! Dr. Wright cuts the bull, and I love that. One painting that sticks in Read More »
Right…lets bring things up to date a bit. The family from Yorkshire very kindly offered me a lift back to Auckland so I could get the bus down from there to Rotorua-a backpackers haven of a geothermal area in central North Island. A little strange to say the least, sitting in the back of their Read More »
Having started my journey on the ‘ Magic Bus ‘ I’m now aware of the drawback of using this type of travel. As it takes passengers to tourist spots on route , you’re in for a long wait if you don’t want to participate. Yesterday we had a stop at the Glowworm Cave that have Read More »
From Auckland we drove down to Rotorua, about 250 kms. On the way we stopped in Cambridge, a quaint little village founded in 1864. The scenery along the way was beautiful and we really enjoyed the freedom of having our own car. On arriving in Rotorua we stopped at Kuirau Park, a series of hot pools Read More »
We woke up early, as usual, allowing me time to become once again numbed and appalled by morning TV shows in UK-related countries. During the show, the host spilled coffee on herself and showed us all some muffins one of the crew had baked for her. On another show, the hosts openly mocked the guest, Read More »
Set off from Raglan via the Waitomo glow worm caves, very cold and lots of stalactites and stalagmites as well as the glow worms!!! Arrived in Rotorua and Rosie met me, strange to think we hadn’t seen each other since 1982.!!! Met up with Keith at the house and later Liza and Brent came to Read More »
Friday, September 21st, 2007 Good day ladies and gents! The Jewel Tower is a medieval tower (so cool, I know!!) built c. 1365 to house Edward III’s treasures. It’s our third day in England and I’m already so in love with the country! The British phrases are super cute. Here’s some of my newly acquired Read More »
On Thursday we made our way into London Blackfriars Station and, armed with scalding coffee, made our way down the riverside walk on the north bank of the Thames, where construction projects dominate the landscape and joggers on lunch from professional jobs huff by in the breezy but somewhat polluted air. Cranes tower above the Read More »
Wow… Edinburgh is absolutely gorgeous!! Granted, I was only there for a little over a day, and we only stayed in the old town, but it was just as I had imagined it. Honestly, I think Edinburgh is one of my favorite–if not favorite–places I’ve visited so far. We arrived at Edinburgh airport in the Read More »
