Kia Ora!

Today is Waitangi day, the national day of New Zealand, which means that I have the day off, and a good opportunity to give a bit of an update…

So where am I?!

Obviously I’m in New Zealand, and since the weekend I have been settling into my new home in Masterton where I am working at Matahiwi Estate. To see how I got here from Sydney and where I’ve been in the mean time, have a look at the ‘Where am I’ map which is fully up to date.

Since I finished working at Kemenys wine merchants on New Years eve, I have been so busy enjoying myself travelling around, the website has suffered a bit from lack of updates. So here’s a brief rundown of what I’ve been up to for this past month, and follow up with more in depth posts…

After celebrating the New Year at Tom’s place, I had a few days left in Bondi to finish off my Surf lessons before my friend Tim joined me for a couple of weeks in Tasmania, where we enjoyed exploring the rugged landscape and visiting some wineries.

Then it was off to New Zealand, arriving in Christchurch, where I quickly got myself some wheels, in the form of my trusty steed ‘ZeeZee’ a 1994 Mitsubishi RVR (I’d never heard of them either) – then after finding a couple of fellow backpackers, we set off on a sprint-lap of as much of the South Island as possible over the next two weeks or so

Not far off halfway through my year away now – and what a lot I’ve seen in just six months! Now that I’m settling down for a while, I will get a chance to catch up on my writing, and let you know how I get on with the 2008 vintage at Matahiwi.

Thanks for reading – do stay tuned for my catch-up posts, for now though, I’m off to the music festival in the park that has been laid on for Waitangi Day!