Protected: News… of a sort

Next morning, the story of our Brazilian Hunk (who had come back in from his night out at about 5 am, just as I was waking up (this again was to become the pattern over the next few days – servalan and I decided it must be some sort of time-share scheme on the room……

Flagstaff, Arizona Apparently the time here is the same as it was in Nevada – no idea what those signs were about then. Leaving Las Vegas (hmm, wasn’t that a film?) took a lot longer than we’d planned., Firstly because we all slept in after our night on the town, but also because the crack…

Yesterday marked the first step towards reopening the CBD, locked behind the red zone cordons since February. Only a very small step in actual space terms, just a couple of blocks, but psychologically a very important one, as those blocks make up Cashel Mall, so badly damaged in the earthquakes that only four or five…

No, not *that* kind of pox! But the doctor confirmed I have definitely got chickenpox. And as I’m highly contagious I’m under orders to confine myself to the house and not go back to work until at least Monday. I expect I’ll be getting a lot of reading done over the next few days. I…

The next morning we packed up the tent again (“assisted” by the campsite’s resident cat which came to check us out and beg for breakfast) and headed for Dunedin. We were booked into a campsite in Portobello, so once we got down the bay we put up the tent and then headed down to Tairoa…

…who keeps asking for photos of her favourite kiwi cat: George “assisting” me with my trip planning… And a bonus: the sketch I made of him in the corner of the notes I was making: