The Last Goodbye

The Last Word…A Final Goodbye

It’s been a long time coming.  This end, this final goodbye.  I guess in many ways I’ve been avoiding it.  Do I really want to write an ending to this chapter of my life, to this past year that has opened so many doors and closed so many windows?  These [...]

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Ko-Pacabana!

So I landed in Thailand just over two weeks ago.  The last stop on my mammoth adventure.  To say it has come quickly would be an understatment.  I could sit and pine for the months I have left behind.  But I have the rest of my life to ponder…for now, Ï’ll just enjoy the land [...]

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Singapore

In Singapore, instead of there being a Starbucks on every corner there is a shopping mall.  I’m not kidding.   Imagine being a poor female who has been living in the same clothes out of a backpack for the last 8 months.  Torture I think is the best way to describe it.  Everything was so new, [...]

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Bula Bula Bula!

So after the slightly depressing air of my previous blog, I feel some joviality sound be dispensed into my future attempts at enlightening the world, or rather my parents (and anyone else crazy enough to waste their time reading my ramblings!), of my latest escapades. The place to start is ‘BULA!’ After all, it is [...]

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There’s something about New Zealand….

I have honestly had to restart this blog so many times it is actually funny. You know those writers who surround themselves with dozens of screwed up pieces of paper whilst sporting a bemused look on their faces? That is me at this precise moment. Of course, the pieces of paper are metaphorical but you [...]

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A little Easter Magic!

Ok…so I know it’s been a while and yes, I know its also been a couple of weeks since Easter.  Alas, I have no defence other than I have been exceptionally lazy.  But dear friends, here I am once more to fill you in on my Easter weekend and Auckland antics! 
Despite living my little ‘Friends’ fantasy [...]

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MISSING: A Lion, a Witch and a Wardrobe.

Moeraki Boulders:
So, as it turns out, the people/aliens/midgets (delete as appropriate belief) who ‘built’ Stonge Henge have been at work in New Zealand….except this time with boulders!  On a beach in Moeraki some years ago, someone or something, randomly placed a series of large black boulders.  They have become infamous as no one knows, much [...]

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Milford Ast-Sounding!

Do you know the difference between a Sound and Fiord?  I do….now…and Milford Sound should actually be called Milford Fiord.  But I won’t bore youw ith details, I’ll just talk about how simply breathtakingly heartstoppingly gorgeous it was to behold.  Yes, I realise all it really is is mountains and water…we’ve seen a lot of [...]

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Speed!

Shotover Jet:
Minus Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and the subequent love story, we starred in our very own Speed movie in Queenstown.  Instead of a bus however, we had a jet boat.  Instead of explosives strapped to us, we had our driver, Shane. 
The Shotover Jet, as it was called, was a must do in Queenstown.  The [...]

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Ice Ice Baby!

I could climb Everest.  It’s a simple statement representing a magnitude of an idea, but I feel that I could.  I mean, I’ve climbed the Franz Josef glacier (ok, half of it), how much different can Everest be? 
 Obviously I’m joking…maybe….but I do count hiking fr 5 hours up the glacier as one of my greatest [...]

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