It’s the end of the week and we’ve spent it walking and walking and walking. Everything is so close that catching a vaporetto (water taxi) is unnecessary. Although we do have tired paws at the end if the day. Rather than a post every day, here’s a round up! Day one saw us just wandering …
Up and at ’em at the genteel hour of about 9am — we both had fantastic sleeps and are completely stumped at where to start. This is partly due to the lack of coffee and minimal food yesterday, as sleep was a priority. We leave the apartment and head in the direction of the closest …
A 13 hour flight that really doesn’t rate describing other than mentioning that Air New Zealand are MUCH better than Swiss Air, so there. We went through European customs when we transferred at Zurich (a handy thing to do when your connecting flight leaves in 45 mins), so we got off the Fokker 100, leaving …
Up and at em in a leisurely way this morning. Coffee found and then off to the ferry terminal to go across to Kowloon. A whole different area, Kowloon. More hawkers and people wanting us to get tailored suits. Grand hotels like the Peninsula and the Langham and much wider, semi-calmer streets. Back on the …
After much sleep in the most fantastic hard, clean bed we nosed out of the hotel for breakfast. Coffee and a pain au raisin later and we were ready to face the world. With four rubbish Harris Knees between us (one post-Winter trauma) we elected to do a Big Bus Tour for the day and …
So apart from a couple of nana naps on the plane and in the hotel, I’ve been awake for about 40 hours, now. Still thinking coherently, but short-attention span stuff. Anne and I arrived about 6am local time and managed to find the hotel, Mingle on the Wing, without drama. Go us! The were several …
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I’m on dinner tonight (it’s my turn ;-) and have been perusing recipes (bloody vegos) and looking for things to do with pumpkin as I happen to have one about my person. I turned the page (I know, a physical book, an object even) to an innocent recipe for Pumpkin Soup. No fancy add-ons or …
On the street off mine, there used to be a fushnchup shop, a dairy and a butcher. Supermarket strategies and population put paid to that over the years and it’s probably a Good Thing ™ that there isn’t a shark’n’tatie shop too close to where I live. However, I have occasionally lamented that the closest …
Before I go on – thanks to y’all for sticking with this experiment! It’s been real ;-) And well my favourite song is a tricky beast. But the following is right up there. It’s by Paul Kelly from the album Post, and I fell in love with it on a train between Wellington and Auckland …
Ohhh I’ve learned many things – how to calculate the new GST in FMPro; that there’s a difference between “cold seat parachutes” and “ejector seat parachutes”; that apparently it’s not as de rigueur to comment on the end of blog posts these days – responses are more likely to show up on the places linking …
This is me some time last year….. And this is me a couple of weeks ago: Physically, not a hayload of difference. Hair is longer with more grey in it. But that’s about it. However, let me tell something to ju! My lifestyle has changed somewhat. I started freelancing in the middle of …