It is great to get a Banfield Blog again after 6 months of silence! And what a great adventure you are going to have: fulfiling one of your mothers lifetime ambitions!
But no mention of when you are going to visit Rocky again? It hasn't rained for weeks here. Great time to come to the UK: you need have no expectation of summer weather.
Do encourage your sis and ma to regenerate their blogs too. Even as I write you are heading closer this way. But sadly not close enough. Why don't you guys continue on after your climb and 'pop over' here.
Love from everyone in Mongolia xxxxxxxxxx
#1 Paihai Fan!
Rachy bean!
your blog is alive-an i get title of first 2008 messenger-yus!! Have an awesome time my girl-will miss you tonnes though! LOVE YOU
#1 Fan
No more blog entries? *sniff, sniff* Please can you keep us updated with hilarious stories from NZ too? I'll pay you! (In chocolate. Maybe.)
you have been a great, funny, inspirering guest! u are allways welcome! i´m sorry that i didn´t have more time for u... and that i talked all the time especialy in the hight
i hope everything worked out fine today! i´m sure your card was emty... so u couldn´t answer! well let me know how u are! and stay in touch!!! but we will anyway!.... EGYPT we are coming!!!!
Bye Bye
Love
P.S: a big warm hello from my parents
P.P.S: thank u for the schocki(i allready ate at least half of it!!!) and the cool Card form good old Kerkeri
Rach
hey sabine
yep i can make way to flat (hehe but if im not there by like 12 i will be lost, prob in bonn or something lol)
not sure wats up with phone... stupid electrical stuff!
see u and quark soon!
rach
Sabine
Hey Rach!
just send u an Text message but i´m not sure if u can reseve them at the moment! i wanted to let u know that i got your mail and that i´m so looking forward to Thursday! i don´t need to work before 6pm so we can spend some time together, i want to know all the details of your trip! Will u find your way to our flat? or should i pick u up?
See u soooonn
Love from Cologne
P.S: will have heaps of Quark and delicious Rolls for Breakfast
Mum
..now there's an idea - you opening a chain of 'hoick'free' backpackers around the world......just not quite sure how you make sure they live up to the name!
Glad you've been in the land of th eSound of Music, and are building on your early childhood education. And I dare anyone to say its not a great movie... it is!
Sorry you didn't get to kayak but don't worry there'll be plenty of chances once you get home to try out Kwaku/Kimberly and Kwame /Kent!
I'm off north this weekend to use K/K myself..
love
mum
xx
Corinne
Sup g ( how gangsta am i?) jj
Just thought you'd find this rather hilarious, today being a sunday i got up extremely early (8.00) and helped pull a train! It was a rather intersting experience since it was a) absolutely freezing b) i was the smallest high schooler there and c) we got beat by like two primary schools!
It was a funsraiser for that train in Kawakawa and there was an interschool competition to see which school could pull the front of the train down the main street of kawakawa the fastest! Let's just say we held the record for about 10 minutes!
Hope you're still having an awesome time.
Luv ya and miss you
Goblin xoxo
Alice
Mum, you should see if you can find a ride down to Chch and test it out! (PS, don't give up on them cos of my one experience!)
Eco-Friendly Transport Love
Yeah mum, there are a couple NZ sites but I have never had any luck with them (like the time I was looking for a ride to Dunaz), mianly cos they are not frequented very often but they are:
hitch.net.nz
Oh and it looks like the other one I knew of (carpool.co.nz or something) has disappeared.
But if you type in "ride share NZ" on Google you should find some.
And Rach, congrats on getting into it - same sorta stranger-interdependency which I luv so much in CouchSurfing! :)
Sabine
Oh Rachel!!!
That sounds horrorable! hope you appriciate(?) our quite little place here in Cologne or did you just never wrote down how anoying loud we are... (not that i´ve been told the other day), have a great time in our Capital! i´m so looking forward to hear your stories! Don´t forget to visit the Checkpoint Charlie museum!!! we miss you allready!
See u soon!
Love
P.s: i´ve been to the Travel agency today and they have the very cheap offers only one month prior the trip! .. so i´ll check it in the beginning of july!!!!
Hopefully Soon To Be Temporarily Deaf
>Nah i dont think we have it, was thinking that it wouldnt be too hard to set up. Just make a website and then thru word of mouth.
Havent been a tourist here yet, was so grumpy and exhausted this morning that I undergrounded it out to a lake and slept on the dirt ground (not as nice as sandy paihia beaches).
will be tourist tomorrow - now that i have some bright coloured earplugs!