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Having left the sleeping trombone to slumber further I made a quick exit ready for the 8.50 bus to Taupō. It was an hours journey of which today there were no incidents and arrived just before 10. In my head I had planned a rough schedule and knew I wanted to see the Māori rockContinue reading “Day 7: 5 hours in Taupō”

I finally managed to sleep, 💃🏻💃🏻 well better than any nights sleep so far. Today started with an early 8.30 departure to Rotorua. Sadly there was no fancy breakfast, just a classic cheese and ham toastie from the cafe at the bus station and a poor flat white. I thought perhaps getting the bus wouldContinue reading “Day 6: A broken down bus and some New Zealand culture”

A better nights sleep than the previous nights but still woke up early! Surely I’m almost out of this cycle 🙏🏼 . The first stop of the day was to a cute litlle coffee shop near to the Sky Tower – United Coffee Nation. Now I love a breakfast bagel but this bagel topped offContinue reading “Day 5: Wood hits the jackpot”

So you would’ve thought a day of exploring Singapore in 30 degree heat would lead to a good nights sleep – who was I kidding? I think I slept for 3 hours out of the potential 6 I could’ve had = nightmare. However, thanks to Woods wisdom a few weeks a go I booked myselfContinue reading “Day 3/4 – Jet Lag 1 – Charlotte 0”

A solid sleep ✅ feeling refreshed, who am I kidding when have I ever felt refreshed?!?! Breakfast, garlic noodles and some grilled chicken – the import and manufacture of chewing gum is illegal so people will just have to deal with garlic breath 😂😂. First tour of the day – the yellow line open topContinue reading “Day 2: Singapore Sling”

A speedy journey up to Newcastle airport, a breeze through security and 3 hours to kill pre departure to Dubai! Number of times I’ve cried uncountable- and I can’t even tell you why, well I can the first one saying goodbye to Milo. What do you do when you have got 3 hours to kill,Continue reading “The adventure begins..first stop Singapore”

So the blog is back. I am back. It’s been a colourful few years. So my last post was back in Salamanca for the wedding of Inés, Summer 2023. For whatever reason, I can’t actually remember, I didn’t continue the blog. It just stopped. No doubt I was hungover, hot and struggling with life thatContinue reading “Guess who’s back back again….”

Day 1 A lie in until after 9 – finally a rest. I think I’ve mentioned a few times that I find it difficult to stop, but that is exactly what I did on day one. Actually I lie, I ended up watching the first half of the football, having 2 espressos, and heading offContinue reading “Back In My Happy Place”

When we all thought 2020 and 2021 couldn’t get any worse in rolls 2022. Now I’m not going to lie the beginning of this year wasn’t the worlds worst…lockdown was a thing of the past (just about) things were on the up. I finally celebrated my 30th birthday albeit 2 years later, we got backContinue reading “2022 horribilis annus- the Romans got it right”

Tonight I got nostalgic, it has been two years since I was “flying solo” so I read through my previous blogs. It’s been over a year since I wrote my last blog on 3rd May 2020. A lot has happened since then. But let me start with a post I wrote on 23rd August 2019Continue reading “How things have changed…”