I love everything about rain.I love the smell of it, I love the feel of it when it first starts to fall, I love the sound of it when you are sitting inside and can hear it falling through the trees. I especially love the feeling of it as it drips down my neck and shoulders.Most people think I am insane when I say I love rainy dismal weather and that it is the best to go for a run in (which it is, try it sometime) but it is true. There is something so incredibly p...

There is a distinct sound when your shoe gets stuck in gooey mud and is painstakingly wrenched from the vice like grip of the watery clay that makes me smile...which is very good, because there was a lot of that during my hike through the Waharau National Park in Hunua this weekend. Before departing on Friday to drive the hour and a half outside of Auckland I was vaguely aware of the fact that it was supposed to rain. By the time I arrived at the little campsite ...

New f***ing Zealand.I am in New Middle Earth, New Narnia, New....home (Narnia is on their postcard stamps!)... now that that is over with, I can get on with it.Okay, so my last entry was not exactly what I had imagined, though I claimed not to be crazy, I kind of still was.After 22 hours of travel, then mountain biking, trekking, getting up early, walking more, seeing a museum, not sleeping, getting a new flat and needing to food shop so I can stop eating Thai fo...

Son of a b****. It has been a LONG couple of days. I do not think I have been this tired, or this confused in all my life. I don't even know where to begin, or if I even should begin at the beginning. Well, lets work backwards. I am sitting in a supermarket, making use of the only free WiFi for miles in this tiny little cafe off shoot. Its not bad, but there seem to be no outlets anywhere, if you come to use the internet, apparently you don't come for very l...