Well I finally some news to blog about after a slow slow slow period. We’ve moved out of our Auckland city center apartment and in with our good friend Hotslots Costin in the nearby suburb of Grey Lynn for a brief stay before heading off on a 3 week tour of the two islands at the end of the month. I’m getting really rather excited at the thought of getting out of Auckland for a while and as an added bonus Ill actually have something proper to blog about. No confirmed plans yet but it’s likely that we’ll head directly to Wellington (a.k.a Wellywood) which is the capitol of New Zealand and then onto the ferry and across to the South Island which is the more rugged and picturesque of the two islands and home to attractions such as Queenstown which is described by Lonely Planet as the ultimate tourist trap resort town, and also Milford Sounds which served as the location for Middle Earth in the filming of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Unfortunately most of the other film locations such as the shire, Home of the Hobbits had to be deconstructed after the filming and the landscape returned to its natural state. Ahhh well. Maybe they might reconstruct it when the upcoming filming of ‘The Hobbit’ Begins. Only Smarties have the answer.
Before heading off we trekked up one tree hill (as suggested by one Pat Culliton ;D) to see the monument placed there to commemorate settlement of New Zealand in or around the year 1000AD by Maori and later in the 1800's by Europeans. There use to be one big tree there on top of the hill but one day a crazy Maori went up with a hatchet and chopped it down in protest against injustices done to the Maori by the European Settlers. The trees were seen as a representation of the European settlers being non indigenous to the hill and having been planted by the European landowner some 200 years earlier.
In an update of an earlier post of things that have different names here, The Common Flip Flop is called a Jangle here or Jangle and Hellman's the Worlds Best Mayonnaise is called Best Foods Imagine that. Wonders never cease to amaze. There ya have it Folks. Stay tuned for more exciting adventures around the south island.
TaTa4Now Kiddies
Lee
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