Kia Ora The last 10 days had been a blur and Monday saw Martin leave and head back to the UK but we did have all day before he needed to be at the airport. Once I had collected him from the hotel we called into the bike shop to check out our new bike and it looked better than I had expected all shiny and new and definately worth the wait. The weather outside was lousy and we met Andy at the wharf and I took them to Takapuna Beach Cafe for lunch as we tucked int...

After a busy weekend the week was going to continue along the same theme,Mel had to go to work and earn us some money and I had arranged to show the lads around the beautiful city of Auckland. I stepped off the ferry and walked the one block to Martin's hotel passing in and out of the sunshine as it got lost behind the tall buildings.We had Andy's hire car to get around today,we stopped off at Savage Park for some great views of the city and followed that up wit...

Monday was a strange day as the daytime passed so quickly but the evening was a different story both Mel and I were huffing and puffing around the house by 7pm.We did salvage the evening by pulling out the scrabble which did the trick. I spent part of Tuesday sorting out things to do with my mate Martin who was arriving on Friday.It was then onto making a homemade beef and ale pie.I got broken off half way through to go and fix my neighbours TV which was playing...

Kia Ora When we left you last week we were heading into autumn and I said we might need to keep an umbrella with us at all times and we were not wrong the rain kept on coming. On Tuesday there was drizzle falling again and I set off for a real walk around "tiki tour" I had no idea where I was going but set off (with my brolley) to see where I ended up.After 2.5 hours walking around and finding some new places I returned home a little wet and I hadn't ...

Kia Ora guys It was Easter Monday so Mel was off for the day,because of the car trouble the first job this morning was oil for the car.It turned out we needed a litre and the car garage took care of it for us.Because the shops were shut yesterday it meant that we had to do our grocey shopping today,it reminded me of Xmas Eve at home as the place was packed with people,it is amazing what one day of shop closure does!!!! Tuesday wasn't too eventful ,I put the fin...