New Zealand
While arriving here is worth mentioning, I've only been here a day so there's not much to report. The flight went well, despite being the smallest plane I've ever flown on. We made some pretty alrming adjustments coming into (windy) Wellington- I leant over to the scared looking girl across the aisle and said "it's ok, they're just dodging the low-flying kiwis".
Wellington is small, freindly and cheap for a capital city. After Oz the beer is crazy cheap, and GOOD- no more shite lager that's fizzy enough to strip the enamel off your teeth, I'm talking thick ale, actual beer you can't see through. I give it a month before I got up a waist size. Or not, because on saturday I'm booked on a week of Magic Bus tours, over to the south island and round to Queenstown, with much energetic hiking/ kayaking/ extreme sports bollocks on the way. The pass I've got is flexible as hell- can jump off at any town on the route, and jump back on the next bus through, or the one in two days, or the one in 10 months. This is perfect for me, as I'm kinda worried about ending up with a group of annoying 18 year olds on the tour bus- being able to get off for a day and let the current crop of dickheads sail past appeals greatly. It also means I can take my time round the south island, which will give it a chance to snow before I get back up north to the snowfields- it's not a round the world trip without at least one snowboarding injury, and with my famous sense of balance and grace I'll be lucky to get away with one.
The accents here are great- it's like being in Flight of the Conchords but without all the singing. Can't understand a word anyone is saying yet, but that's fine because they all think I'm South African so speak extra slowly for me. Except for one group of girls on the plane who decided I speak like Jimmy Carr. Which I do not.
At some point I should probably do a wrap up post of Australia. I'll add it to the to-do list, which also includes the secret dare thing from a couple of posts ago- but that's all in hand, I've got a couple of designs cooking up and Auckland is meant to be good for tattoos so I'll look at getting it done when I get there before I fly out in 1-2 months (or so). OMG SECRET SLIPPED OUT etc.
Mostly because I want more ideas. I'm almost certainly going to get a science/geek one- preferably to do with my degree in some way so it's more of an end of era/ graduation celebration thing rather than just a macho chest-beating excercise to save face after a certain girl dared me. Location will be on the back (I'm not crazy!), probably small enough to fit on one shoulderblade. I've been looking here for inspiration, but I need more- bombard me with ideas! Send them to me!
Wellington is small, freindly and cheap for a capital city. After Oz the beer is crazy cheap, and GOOD- no more shite lager that's fizzy enough to strip the enamel off your teeth, I'm talking thick ale, actual beer you can't see through. I give it a month before I got up a waist size. Or not, because on saturday I'm booked on a week of Magic Bus tours, over to the south island and round to Queenstown, with much energetic hiking/ kayaking/ extreme sports bollocks on the way. The pass I've got is flexible as hell- can jump off at any town on the route, and jump back on the next bus through, or the one in two days, or the one in 10 months. This is perfect for me, as I'm kinda worried about ending up with a group of annoying 18 year olds on the tour bus- being able to get off for a day and let the current crop of dickheads sail past appeals greatly. It also means I can take my time round the south island, which will give it a chance to snow before I get back up north to the snowfields- it's not a round the world trip without at least one snowboarding injury, and with my famous sense of balance and grace I'll be lucky to get away with one.
The accents here are great- it's like being in Flight of the Conchords but without all the singing. Can't understand a word anyone is saying yet, but that's fine because they all think I'm South African so speak extra slowly for me. Except for one group of girls on the plane who decided I speak like Jimmy Carr. Which I do not.
At some point I should probably do a wrap up post of Australia. I'll add it to the to-do list, which also includes the secret dare thing from a couple of posts ago- but that's all in hand, I've got a couple of designs cooking up and Auckland is meant to be good for tattoos so I'll look at getting it done when I get there before I fly out in 1-2 months (or so). OMG SECRET SLIPPED OUT etc.
Mostly because I want more ideas. I'm almost certainly going to get a science/geek one- preferably to do with my degree in some way so it's more of an end of era/ graduation celebration thing rather than just a macho chest-beating excercise to save face after a certain girl dared me. Location will be on the back (I'm not crazy!), probably small enough to fit on one shoulderblade. I've been looking here for inspiration, but I need more- bombard me with ideas! Send them to me!