Hi Everyone,
The last six days I have been in NZ. Certainly we get frustrated from time to time with the pace of things here but my trip to NZ has put that all into perspective. The trip was for a workshop with Outward Bound and they arranged for their Travel Agent to make all the bookings – the result was pretty awful ….. I was supposed to have electronic tickets according to the itinerary I received. The airlines were told physical tickets and so I ended up paying myself for the Ak – Wgtn leg. The Travel Agent handled my complaints poorly (in my view of course) so by the time I arrived at Vila for the 10.30am flight to be told that the flight left at 7.30am I was pretty bloody annoyed. Got it out of system today though with a 3 page letter of complaint – boy that felt good!
The weather here seems to be getting a little cooler – down to about 20 at night and maybe around 28 during the day – very nice. Our garden is growing well and we are looking forward to tomatoes, lettuce, kumara and melons. Otherwise we seem to be in a comfortable routine – vodka and pomplemousse at night, watch band of brothers, have tea, watch burn notice and then play cards. Maryann is having a purple patch at cards and I’m having to get used to being thrashed – must be luck surely!
Off to Sunesup next week so it may be a couple of weeks before our next up date.
Cheers
Vic and Maryann