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From Napier to Whakatane
We were not in a hurry today. Our plan was to drive from Napier to Whakatane, a distance of about 200 miles and the hotel room at our destination had already been booked. So we took our time in leaving our neat little Pebble Beach Hotel apartment in Napier and our terrace with palm trees. First I [...]
Napier
Today we felt like shopping. And we needed some stuff, like a pair of shorts for me and an adapter to plug our mobile phones into the wall outlets for charging. Our apartment was “close to the city center”, but still it was at least a mile to walk. Looking at the map we could [...]
From Wellington to Napier
Our next destination was Napier. It was really a last-minute decision. We just selected Napier based on the weather forecast. The East Coast always has better weather than the West Coast. Wellington was far too cold for us. But first the road led us to the north along the west coast, so we did not get [...]
Windy Welly
Today I wanted to visit the Wellington Cable Car Museum and the botanical garden. We first walked to the Cable Car and on the way there Julia had found a friend already: A little bronze dog. We bought return tickets for the Cable Car although I was not sure whether we would go back by train or [...]
From Eketahuna to Wellington
After breakfast we first loaded our luggage into the car and then we went to check out and say goodbye to the hotel owner Colin and his wife Lynn. They had added up our bill, which totalled well over 300 New Zealand dollars. That is still quite a lot of money to spend in such [...]
Goodbye Eketahuna
The past few days I had continuously been working on Tallie and Henk’s PC between our outings. It was now connected to the Internet, but it was terribly slow. This was not only caused by the slow connection with a modem, but also by the PC itself: It had too little internal memory: Just a [...]
Gniffels in New Zealand
Before we left for New Zealand, Julia had done an interview with Echo radio about the CD “Wijs met Groningen” by the Gniffels. Today this interview was to be broadcast, so it would be great fun to listen to that together with Tallie and Henk. Jane too understands enough of Dutch language to be able [...]
Middleton Model Railway
Now that we were at Tallie and Henk’s anyway, there was something important I wanted to do for them: They have owned a computer for years and they want to get onto the Internet with it. But it won’t work! They do not have the technical knowledge and nobody seems to be inclined to help them [...]
From Taupo to Eketahuna
Lake Taupo has always fascinated me. You can’t miss it when you look at the map of New Zealand: New Zealand consists of two islands, surrounded by blue water, but in the middle of the North island you can see another patch of blue! In fact Lake Taupo is the crater of a huge volcano, [...]
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