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Normal walking service resumes – phew, that’s a relief

16 August 2008 1 Comment

Yay, normal service has been returned to the Kaitoke Forest.  It was music to my ears to learn from our neighbours that the path through the forest has been cleared after the storm.  Regular readers might recall that one of our favourite walking routes had been blocked by fallen trees. We hot footed it up [...]

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Walks take battering all over

2 August 2008 3 Comments

The track behind our land links Tunnel Gully with the Rimutaka Rail Trail.  It’s a popular route for walkers and cyclists.  It is of course one of our regular dog walking tracks with a great route that loops over a stream and back giving the sense of a circular walk when in fact it’s not. [...]

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A walk on the wild side

1 August 2008 4 Comments

After a day indoors yesterday it was time to venture forth with the bassets.  We figured a stroll along the Kaitoke Hill and Pylon loop just across the way would be a perfect way to get our daily exercise fix. It turned out to be a walk on the wild side.  One of our favourite [...]

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All for this!

19 June 2008 1 Comment

Today was quite a big day – our residency approval in principle came through. All we need now is a new stamp in our passports and pay our migrant levy and we are home and dry. We’re celebrating with fush n chups and champagne. Hmm.. what a combination! I took this picture from one of [...]

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The land and house that never was

10 May 2008 Leave a Comment

Loyal blogger readers will remember that our house building dreams haven’t entirely run a smooth course. For new readers, here’s the crux of our story. Anyway, we were out yesterday with the bassets walking the Rimutaka Incline Trail which is a recreational path that follows the line of the old Rimutaka Train Line. Lo and [...]

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1 May 2008 Leave a Comment

They say you can’t beat Wellington on a good day! Today I was reminded of that. It was a bit dark, dank and dreary up in Kaitoke so I set off in the rain for appointments in town. As I travelled down the Hutt Valley and into town it was like someone had opened the [...]

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Rambling the pylon way

6 April 2008 Leave a Comment

When we were building the house we’d often scoot up to site have a snout around and then head off for a walk on one of the trails close by. Since we’ve actually moved here we haven’t been out walking so decided yesterday that today was the day that we were getting back into the [...]

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Photoblogging – more to come

1 March 2008 Leave a Comment

MT’s been photoblogging this weekend at the Kaitoke Regional Park. This is just a five minute ride in the car from where we will. It’s an amazing place of natural beauty with plenty of walks and swimming holes in the river for those who want to cool off. It’s hard to capture the sense of [...]

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“Queen Victoria Day”

17 February 2008 Leave a Comment

Cruise ships are a regular sight in Wellington, usually so big to make the cake tin stadium look like a muffin case. The latest cruising attraction to arrive this weekend was the brand new $676 million, 90,000 tonne ship – the Queen Victoria – stopping off as part of its maiden voyage, a 15-week world [...]

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When rugby turns to party

3 February 2007 Leave a Comment

Whilst Jonny was into winning ways in the Six Nations, Wellington has been invaded this weekend by the annual International Rugby Sevens Competition. Held at the caketin there are 34,500 people all cheering their favourite team (not)! In reality, the caketin becomes the biggest party venue in NZ with everyone using it as an excuse [...]

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