NZ Wanderings

Our time in New Zealand is sadly over. I am writing this from Bangkok airport, halfway back to the UK. We've had a fantastic year, with ...

It's my last weekend in NZ and I was supposed to be packing up the flat. The weather this morning was good though, so I couldn't res...

I'm fast running out of weekends before I go home, but Ken was insistent on a trip down to Mount Ruapehu for some snowboarding. Obvious...

Saturday in Auckland dawned grey and rainy, and there was a severe weather warning for heavy rain in the Kaimai Ranges . This wasn't qui...

I had another kitesurfing lesson on Sunday. This time I managed to stay upright for decent periods and almost stay upwind, quite a big impro...

My employer, CHP Consulting , organises annual conferences where we get together to catch up, find out what the company's plans are and ...

Things have quietened down a bit since Sophie left - we had been trying to squeeze as much as we could into her last weekends here, and I ha...