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Travelled to Birmingham/ Went to fix laptop/ Self development

Monday/Rāhina We trained from Manchester to Birmingham and I was going to work on this blog. Laptop buttons for this site did not work. I tried, I got Bill to try, and I tried a computer in the hotel. It worked on the other computers, so my lap top was definitely the problem. I told Bill about Mackeeper and that I had bought it to try and fix it. He said it sounded like a scam. I gave it up and I noticed I wasn't that good about giving it up, so I wrote to Kath who has been partnering me with ...

Swimming/Kaunga at City Suites, Self development and Manchester Day

Sunday/Rātapu I have been swimming about 20 lengths every morning. The pool is stunning. Mostly I have had the pool to myself.  This morning on my swim I see this guy hanging out by the lockers. The lockers are 2 metres left of the spa and then away from the pool by another 2 metres. He has a hairy back and my immediate thoughts are - He is not the kind of guy I should be here by myself with! I tell myself all is well, and not to be so silly. Then he is turning and looking at the pool and ...

Cricket/Kirikiti Manchester

Saturday/Rāhoroi...

City Suites, 16 Chapel Rd, Manchester and Getting ready for cricket/kirikiti

Friday/Rāmere Walked to pick up tickets from Old Trafford Cricket Ground....

Aquarium visit and Goodbye Monterey

Thursday/RāparePacking up to leave, spotted this out of bedroom window. A big cruise ship....

Washing day in Monterey

Wednesday/Rāapa...

17 Mile Road Trip

Rāhina/ Monday...

Last round Ko au te hahaupōro Ko te hahaupōro ko au

Rātapu/Sunday 16th June  Last round. Bill backed Rose and I backed Rory for a back massage.  As neither of us won and our feet were sore, we massaged each other's feet :). The golf is history. Gary Woodland is the winner. ...

More Hahaupōro/Golf at Pebble Beach

Saturday/Rāhoroi 15th June...

Hahaupōro/Golf at Pebble Beach

Friday/Rāmere14th June  Trying to watch at 7th hole....

Golf/hahaupōro (Pebble Beach)

Thursday/Rāpare 13th June Today was all about the golf/hahaupōro. Bill worked out, and thought we had walked 36 holes. I was happy with that figure and I have very sore feet. Pebble Beach is very scenic from every hole, it was 14 degrees Celsius, you had to keep moving to keep warm and I loved watching experts play golf. Ko au te hahaupōro. Ko te hahaupōro ko au. (I am the golf and the golf is me.)...

Exploring Carmel-By-The-Sea

Wednesday/Raapa 12th June We did some exploring of Carmel-by-the-Sea - a quaint town which is similar to Princeton, with coffee shops and boutique type shops. The difference is Princeton has the university, Carmel-by-the-Sea has Pebble Beach Golf Course.  It is a square mile village. There is a no high heels law, and there are no street addresses.  Thirty years ago when Clint Eastwood was Mayor of Carmel he  did not want to citify Carmel and rejected house- to-house mail delivery ...

Aptos Beach

Tuesday/Rārua 11th June...

Leaving New Zealand

Tuesday/Rārua We left our home in Auckland at 3.30 pm (via Anna our daughter in her boyfriend - Mark's car) saying goodbye to 23 Cedar Rd for the last time after 25 years living there.  We were on a 7.45 pm Air NZ flight heading for San Francisco and Bill whispered in my ear “I have got emailed that Air NZ took our lowest possible offer for a One-Up upgrade that I pitched for a week ago, and we are going business class.” That was music to my ears! Getting out of Cedar Rd has been ...

Welcome to our journey

Naumai, welcome to my travel blog/ whakairanga rangitaki 2019/2020. (That is interesting there is a word in Māori for blog, when they did not even write 200 years ago!) As some of you know I am interested in Māori ways, partly because they lived off the land with no pollution, they were the first humans who lived in Aotearoa, and I am learning their ways as well as their language. In this blog you will learn some Māori words and ways as I learn and can, if you ch...