Biking Ahuriri Conservation Park
It was a new area to us: the trip to the Ahuriri Conservation Area was a great area to explore. Located 20km outside Omarama, it was a long drive up…
Biking Welcome Rock
With a good weather forecast we headed to Garston to ride the Welcome Rock trail. This is a private trail that the owners have hand built on of their High…
NZ, Covid-19, and out & about
In Laos Covid-19 started to gain momentum. On the 18th of March we got word that Thailand was going to close its borders so we began a 2 day process…
Winter trip to NZ
We went to NZ to see family, friends, ski and look at the Bannockburn section. Paula only had 9 days before returning to work and Andrew managed 15 days. Flying…
Speedy times in NZ
Before we came back to Laos we had said we would commit to a couple of events – one of which was a trip back to NZ to join in…
Off to the East Cape
I had never been to Gisborne or the East Cape, and Andrew had only spent a very limited amount of time there. It was February, supposedly mid-summer and the area…