What, a blog post about a convention that was only two weeks ago? What is this madness?? So, yes, the Aus/NZ Bookcrossing convention (or unconvention, technically) was the weekend before last, on Stewart Island. Stewart Island is not the most obvious place for a convention (for the foreigners, it’s that little island at the very…
Saturday 23 April, 11 am, at the convention We’re about to have a guest speaker, and I’m not sure whether they’ll be speaking in English or Greek, so this seems like a good opportunity to catch up a bit. So, after Zeus’s temple we wanted to try and find the Lykia where Aristotle taught. It…
Friday 22 April Another long and super busy day. Last night, of course, was the pre-convention dinner. We made it there only a few minutes late (at the expense of not having had time to go home and get cleaned up and changed first, as we’d hoped to), and quickly spotted the other bookcrossers. Of…
Thursday 21 April 2016, 3 pm, Athens In a seafood restaurant, having just gorged on greek salad, boiled wild greens, eggplant dip, fried zucchini, squid, sardines, mussels… just a light lunch 🙂 We’ve been on the go all day, so I still haven’t managed to sit down and write. But, briefly back to the story…
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10 pm (Bangkok time) – somewhere over Indonesia, three hours from Bangkok I woke up from a half-sleep just in time to see one of the islands of Indonesia below us. It’s pitch dark, of course (according to the flight info screen thing, it’s 11 pm locally), but the islands are…
Sunday We were up and about way too early for breakfast again, so we decided to make the most of the fine morning and headed back up into the Aorere Valley to the Salisbury Falls. The waterfall is quite a small one, but you could see from the surrounding rocks that it must be a…
Saturday: We were both awake bright and early, and Dangerous Kitchen (which we’d planned on breakfasting at, having perused their menu the night before) didn’t open until 9, so we decided to head over to Te Waikoropupū Springs (or just Pupu Springs, as they’re more commonly called if you want to avoid all those syllables). …
k, I know I promised to tell you all about my holiday when I got back, and I really did intend to spend yesterday sorting out all my photos and making release notes and writing it all up, but I ended up having a totally lazy day instead and got absolutely nothing done. And most…
As promised, notes from my Wellington trip. They’re a bit disjointed, because I didn’t keep a proper travel diary, just noted down things that I wanted to remember to include in my blog. Of course, I could write them up into proper paragraphs and stuff, but where’s the fun in that? 😉 Wednesday There’s a…
The rest of the trip over went smoothly. I slept on and off most of the way from Abu Dhabi to London, but was still pretty tired by the time we reached Heathrow. Then I had a 4-hour wait for the bus (which felt even longer, because I was too tired to read, so spent…