I am the Lone Ranger, and my pack is Tonto as I strike out across the wilds of New Zealand’s South Island withouth Samantha to keep me company. *Sob sob* and all that jazz. I was more than a little apprehensive at the prospect of two weeks travelling solo, despite the fact that I had a [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Art Deco Weekend
November 25, 2008
Woohoo! Wellington is fading into the distance and the real blogging – about actual exciting things and stunning sights can recommence. Hurrah!
To celebrate being, once more, a free agent who doesn’t work, I ventured up to Napier, Art Deco capital of THE WORLD with the girlf, Laura and Mark. Friday was blazing and Laura and [...]
Returning to Rosemere
November 12, 2008
The world is starting to resemble a tube train at Epping – All Change Please. Not only is there now a new leader of the ‘Free World’ in a certain Mr. Obama (yay!), but even New Zealand’s Government has changed hands. Shunning the lurch to the left of their American cousins, Parliament here is now under [...]
Eastlondoncurlontour’s South America Awards – part 2
November 10, 2008
Hello and welcome back to this, the second installment of Eastlondoncurlontour’s South America Travelling Awards. Ladies and gentlemen, hold onto your hats because today, we leave the comfortably cosy hostel setting behind and venture out into the real world. That’s what travelling’s all about, after all. A virtual fanfare please! Here is part 2 – awards [...]
Glaring Omission
November 2, 2008
Eastlondoncurlontour is dismayed at its own glaring omission from part one of South American Travelling Awards. Best Fellow Travellers without even mention of Holiday Hotel Cartagena? Crazy Lucy and Jodie, irepressable Debs and all the others made Cartagena and Playa Blanca a hot, sweaty, messy kind of a dream. The best kind, you’ll agree. I hang my [...]
