Wash & Surf Laundromat/Internet Cafe Te Anau, Fiordland, NZ December 22, 2007, 5pm Greetings from Fiordland! We arrived this afternoon after a pleasant but overcast drive from the Catlins, where we had a short overnight stay. After checking in to our B&B, we got on a boat and headed out across the lake to visit […]
December 21, 2006 Larnach Castle Intermittent rain showers and, this morning, some hail! Perfect weather for dolphins and albatrosses. We’re off to pay them a visit before continuing on our way southwards. Looks like (fingers crossed) the weather should improve by Saturday, our day on Milford Sound.
December 20th, 6pm Larnach Castle, near Dunedin, New Zealand 10 degrees Centigrade & cloudy Well, at least it’s not raining any more. Our delightful spell of weather ended this morning with grey skies, which quickly turned to rain as we got out of the Banks Peninsula. We then spent most of the rest of the […]
Sunday, December 17th, 8:45pm Great Ponsonby B&B, Auckland We’ve had a great stay in Auckland, with a number of highlights. Yesterday we took a ferry out from the harbour to Waiheke Island, 45 minutes away. It’s a lovely tranquil place, dotted with wineries. We rented a car by the ferry terminal there and explored a […]
Friday, December 15th Great Ponsonby B&B, Auckland, New Zealand Kia ora! That’s hello from New Zealand. We’re winding down after a fairly busy day, which started far, far too early in the skies over the Pacific as our overnight flight descended into Auckland International. Yesterday was our last day in Hawaii, and we took our […]
Aloha! It’s 11 am in Hawai’i, and I’m writing this from the business center at the Turtle Bay Resort. Anne and I arrived here late on Sunday evening after a long but smooth journey from Toronto via Vancouver. 19 hours of straight travel accomplished, we were pretty exhausted by the time we got to our […]
Spring is over, and summer is now unofficially here: the morning was hot (19 at the moment) and the day’s getting hotter (high of 31!). To celebrate, the TTC’s maintenance staff staged an illegal and unannounced strike this morning, so we got to walk to work. What a jolly time. Anne and I have had […]
We’re in Paris! Anne and I are over for a week of fine art, fine food, and fine times. The weather: cool, cloudy today, but generally comfortable. The people: French. Lots of great art: the Musee d’Orsay, the Musee Rodin, the Pantheon, la Cathedrale Notre Dame, and today, the Centre Pompidou. And we’ve seen a […]
Anne and I were in San Antonio, Texas for the weekend, while she attended a conference. In fact, she’s still there; her conference wraps up today and she’s flying home tomorrow. We had decent weather, warm enough for t-shirts and shorts during the day (though the shorts were ill-considered for museum visits given the Texans […]
A while since my last post (again, and I’m sorry!) so some quick updates on the news front. My work continues apace, and Anne is, if anything, too busy with her work. My birthday came and went pretty quietly on the weekend with the main activity of the day being a trip to see the […]