April 15th, 2010
We took a road trip over the Easter break to see Sarah (Ian’s Sister) & Clinton in Blenheim, leaving Thursday afternoon we drove down to Wellington to catch the 3am ferry across the Strait to Picton before a final short drive to Blenheim getting there in time for breakfast.

Friday afternoon we went out to the mouth of the diversion for a bit of fishing and for me some photography – I definitely had more luck than the others :-). Saturday a bit of retail therapy was required in town before hitting St Clair vineyard for lunch and a bit of wine tasting, just to be able to properly compare the wine we tried 3 other vineyards, my favorite being forrest – lovely desert wine. Sunday we headed to the Farmers market for breakfast and of course purchasing some fine local produce, then had a easy relaxing day at home. An early start (8am ferry!!) on Monday to head back to Auckland, stopping at the Southward car museum. We had a good trip home, traffic wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting – just a shame about the speeding ticket – oops.
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September 12th, 2009
Been back in New Zealand for 5 weeks and we finally bought a car today. Was quite keen to get a manual Toyota station wagon. After watching TradeMe for a while, we finally found one up in Dargaville at http://www.dargavilleford.co.nz/.
It’s a 2002 Toyota Camry, 2.2 litre, manual with 141,000 kms on the clock, New Zealand new with only one owner. After a nice drive back, we’re happy with the purchase.
Here’s some more pictures: http://2lostkiwis.com/gallery2/v/2009-09-12/
Some more details on the car here: http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=aqr307

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May 30th, 2009
Saw this guy and his cool machine a few years ago. Cycled there last Saturday and he was back and I had my camera ready. Click on the photos for the video. Here’s Phils website: http://www.myspace.com/akafilm
Tags: bath, Phil, street performer
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April 1st, 2009
This is my company! The name now officially registered with companies office all ready to start when I get home to NZ.
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March 20th, 2009
An annual event for us with Richard, Ian, Adam & Friends was great fun as usual, this year I did particularly well in choosing my beers, following my skilled analysis of which names sound the best, and did not choose any I didn’t like. I was a little disappointed in the lack of bearded men this event normally draws – the men of the south west must have finally found razors. After beer we had the necessary curry to round things off.
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