I've never really been into sailing but if you lived in New Zealand over the past two weeks you needed to have been completely and utterly incommunicado not to have heard about it or even seen the two huge catamarans gliding across the water like planes. Oracle, Team USA won, but the end result seems to have been more a matter of who had the most ( Read more... )

Note to self, when a walking track states "please note that this walk does include one steep area", what they mean is the look out is on the top and you're climbing all the way up the hill to reach it! Admittedly once I got my breath back the views were spectacular, but my knees weren't half complaining on the way down.

I like long walks, ( Read more... )

Estate Agents are an interesting and persistent lot. We're getting to grips with the way the Kiwis do business re buying and selling homes, but still find it difficult dealing with so many different agents from the same Agency! Like the idea of Open Homes at the weekend, but I'm not too sure I'd want any old person off the street looking through my ( Read more... )