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South America 2008

Our South American adventure began in Quito, Ecuador in October. Quito is a large, sprawling city with not too much for tourists, but we did enjoy walking around the Old Town and checking out the views from various points around town. Our next

Most Recent Entry: Monday, October 06, 2008

Life in the U.K

In April we headed up to Oxford to witness the all-important occasion of Dave's last rugby game. It was freezing - just like being back in good old Wellington! After the games there was some general carousing at Dave's rugby club and a couple of lo

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 19, 2008

Orkney, Easter 2008

For Easter this year James and I took the train up to Edinburgh and met up with the Ritchie family to join them on their Orkney roadtrip. We had an eventful first day on Friday, as the road took us up into the Highlands and the snow started to fall.

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Italy

Matt, James and I got some very cheap flights on Ryanair, and so headed to Pisa for a weekend. Our hotel was right by the Leaning Tower - we could see it from our balcony! It really does look like it could fall at any time - very strange to think how...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, February 08, 2008

Tenerife - Christmas & New Year, 2007-8

Being Kiwis, we're not really sold on the 'cold Christmas' thing, so this year James and Ricky had the idea to head to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. We were initially a bit dubious, having heard terrible stories of awful concrete resorts full of 'B...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, December 21, 2007

Rugby World Cup 2007 - Leg Two

From Munich we headed back to France for the final ABs pool match against Romania. We took the train to Geneva, where we stayed the night. It was a long trip and we all took the opportunity to doze and drink lots of water for our poor beer-filled kid...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, September 27, 2007

Paris

Since Brigitte heads home to New Zealand in a few months (boo!), she had the great idea of one last jaunt to Paris, to see the Musee D'Orsay. James and I tagged along. It was very exciting for us as the Bialys are lucky enough to have a car, which me...

Most Recent Entry: Monday, September 17, 2007

Rugby World Cup 2007 - Leg One

Our first stop on the road trip was Aix en Provence - this is a really pretty place, exactly what you'd imagine a Provence town to be like. We stayed at a small bed and breakfast and hung out by the pool. In the evening we walked into town - the ...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, September 14, 2007

Amsterdam...the return!

As much as we loved our time in Amsterdam, one thing was annoying - it was cold the whole time! So we decided the time was right to head back for a weekend of fun (and hopefully sun!) Our weekend companions were Matt, Andy, Dan and Charlotte. We s...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, August 24, 2007

Rock Werchter - Belgium, June 2007

In my humble opinion, this was the best festival ever. Truly top stuff. The lineup was utterly amazing - we saw Beastie Boys, Muse, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Chemical Brothers, In...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, June 28, 2007

USA 2007

Leaving Monument Valley a day early, we headed to Page, Arizona. It's a small town situated by Lake Powell. The lake is man-made, it was formed when Glen Canyon Dam was built in the late 1950s. The lake is huge and attracts hundreds of houseboaters ...

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Cricket World Cup 2007

Grenada was the first stop on our Cricket World Cup trip. We flew from NZ, via LA, which took something like 2 days altogether - crazy! But it was worth it when we arrived and woke u to the beautiful view over Morne Rouge Bay. Our first cricket ga...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, April 24, 2007

New Zealand, April 07

The main purpose of this 'whirlwind' trip back to NZ (we were only there for a week) was for Brigitte and Mat's wedding, which was fantastic. But we also managed to squeeze in two nights in the Coromandel with Mum and Dad, and see our families and l...

Most Recent Entry: Monday, April 02, 2007

Prague - New Year 06/07

After our week of sunshine in The Gambia, we had a single night in London before heading back to the airport. This time our bags were full of warm winter woolies - we were headed to Prague to celebrate the new year. We were meeting up with Kent, Bokk...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, December 30, 2006

The Gambia - Christmas 2006

James and I decided that we wanted some 'winter sun' for Christmas, and our travel agent suggested The Gambia. It's a 6 hour direct flight from Gatwick, and average December temperatures are about 28 - 32 degrees...so after a bit of research, we booke...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, December 23, 2006

Cardiff, November 2006

James, Dave, Amelia and I drove to Cardiff to see the All Blacks play Wales at the Millennium Stadium. The stadim itself is very cool - and the atmosphere is just amazing. The Welsh rugby fans are great fun to watch with - we sat by a welsh family wh...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, November 25, 2006

Lyon - November 2006

James, Amelia, Liam and I took off for a weekend in Lyon to watch the All Blacks play France. We won the game by a huge margin, and it was a fantastic weekend of drinking and fun. Kent was also town, along with Ricky and some of his mates. On Sat...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, November 10, 2006

Croatia, September 2006

We had been hearing lots of good things about Croatia, and especially 'Sail Croatia'. The idea is that you spend a week or so onboard a 'sailboat' (they actually use their engines most of the time) exploring some of the many islands off the coast of C...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, September 15, 2006

Life in the Netherlands

We decided to head to Belgium to spend a weekend in Bruges/Brugge - it's not a long drive from Holland. We left on the Friday (James was conveniently sick) and on the way stopped off at Madurodam. It's quite cheesy but also cool to see - there ar...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 29, 2006

Dublin - March 2006

As many of you will know, I have a special fondness for St Patrick's Day - because it's also my birthday! (And Dave's, my birthday buddy.) So this year I was really spoiled, James bought us tickets to Dublin - yeah!! We flew out on the morning of ...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, March 17, 2006

Bruges, February 2006

Bruges (or Brugge to the Dutch) is the perfect weekend break town - it has enough attractions to fill a weekend, but is also small enough that you don't have to rush and try and cram things in. Plus it's really picturesque and charming - quite romanti...