the travelling salesman
that's what the man feels like, and i'm like the accompanying monkey with the accordion! ha well no, not really, cos i'm not part of the money making business part.
we've been on the road a lot for L's work. had a nice relaxing (relatively, if you ignore all the housework/renovating/errands bits) january, then it was back to work for the man. well, someone's gotta earn the money right? :p i'm the dutiful supportive woman behind the hardworking man.
we spent 3 long days (long for him cos of long shift; long for me cos of boring town!) in Timaru (no offense, Timaru-ites!) and drove back very late last Sunday home. Spent the Sunday cleaning cos this weekend we've a dear friend visiting from sg. Then Sunday night drove 2.5 hours south to Invercargill, which is a lot bigger looking and modern feeling than I'd expected. L really likes the hospital here and can imagine us working together here, it's huge and very new. Well I told him wait at least 3 years for that, I haven't even started yet! Start in 2 weeks' time.
We drove down to the southern most town in NZ, Bluff. Here the State Highway 1 starts (or ends, but I think starts, since it's the oldest settlement in NZ, I think) quite undramatically. We did a nice long walk along the cliffs on a track. Got really desolate near the end, and very spectacular. Reminded me of both Italy near Cinque Terre cos of the winding path along the cliff and Greece in its raw desolate emptiness.
Where the track started was a signpost, I guess a rather famous one in tourist books. It stated we were only 300km off being equidistant from the South Pole and the equator. Strange to imagine, cos heading south from here would only take one through lots and lots of ocean. Some islands and some small S Am settlements, but that's it. Northwards from the same latitude north, would be lots and lots more land, cities, people.
Was strange to think about it, seeing as it felt we were at land's end, which technically is true, but we weren't that far from the equator at all.
No we didn't take a picture of the signpost. Heaps of pictures of it on the net though.
Looking forward to C coming to visit, we've to head off right after work today, I've got to get everything together packed and ready to zip off. He'll be at the airport waiting for us and contrary to what one would think, I really doubt it takes any time at all to get off the plane (probably walk down a flight of steps to the tarmac) and pick up luggage (might or might not be a "belt", I'm thinking they probably heap the bags in a pile and you pick!) so I hope we'll be on schedule today!
Oh and Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone!
we've been on the road a lot for L's work. had a nice relaxing (relatively, if you ignore all the housework/renovating/errands bits) january, then it was back to work for the man. well, someone's gotta earn the money right? :p i'm the dutiful supportive woman behind the hardworking man.
we spent 3 long days (long for him cos of long shift; long for me cos of boring town!) in Timaru (no offense, Timaru-ites!) and drove back very late last Sunday home. Spent the Sunday cleaning cos this weekend we've a dear friend visiting from sg. Then Sunday night drove 2.5 hours south to Invercargill, which is a lot bigger looking and modern feeling than I'd expected. L really likes the hospital here and can imagine us working together here, it's huge and very new. Well I told him wait at least 3 years for that, I haven't even started yet! Start in 2 weeks' time.
We drove down to the southern most town in NZ, Bluff. Here the State Highway 1 starts (or ends, but I think starts, since it's the oldest settlement in NZ, I think) quite undramatically. We did a nice long walk along the cliffs on a track. Got really desolate near the end, and very spectacular. Reminded me of both Italy near Cinque Terre cos of the winding path along the cliff and Greece in its raw desolate emptiness.
Where the track started was a signpost, I guess a rather famous one in tourist books. It stated we were only 300km off being equidistant from the South Pole and the equator. Strange to imagine, cos heading south from here would only take one through lots and lots of ocean. Some islands and some small S Am settlements, but that's it. Northwards from the same latitude north, would be lots and lots more land, cities, people.
Was strange to think about it, seeing as it felt we were at land's end, which technically is true, but we weren't that far from the equator at all.
No we didn't take a picture of the signpost. Heaps of pictures of it on the net though.
Looking forward to C coming to visit, we've to head off right after work today, I've got to get everything together packed and ready to zip off. He'll be at the airport waiting for us and contrary to what one would think, I really doubt it takes any time at all to get off the plane (probably walk down a flight of steps to the tarmac) and pick up luggage (might or might not be a "belt", I'm thinking they probably heap the bags in a pile and you pick!) so I hope we'll be on schedule today!
Oh and Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone!