Happy Xmas!!
First of all to say happy Christmas to everybody back home! Hope you have a lovely restful day and enjoy your holidays. Secondly, somewhere in a bar in Ilkley, the Skipper will be drowning himself in Tetley's to celebrate another passing of a year of his life...sorry I'm not there, but I hope that you and Phyllis have a goodnight. Chappers, if you're up there, can you buy the young whipper snapper a beer from me?
Pleased to report that the sun came out and the cloud lifted on Friday and revealed New Zealand to be the most spectacularly stunning place on earth. The countryside is just amazing! Think Wales, but without the male choirs and Wrexham lager and put in on a much bigger scale. It is just incredible, miles upon miles of rolling green hills, volcanic mountains and crystal clear lakes. We got upto Lake Taupo and saw the Huka Falls, the Craters of the Moon (A geothermal region, where the ground literally smokes - in fact Skipper, I would have for once, loved one of your ever so interesting lectures of igneous rock formation at this point for a change!), and thankfully the blue sky enabled us to climb to 15,000 feet and jump out of a aeroplane with little but a knapsack and a trained instructor for company.
Breath-taking is not the word! You are desperate for it to stop, just so you can take in the views, but unfortunately gravity has the effect of pulling you down to 5,000 foot in a minute 10 and then you get 4 minutes of parachuting. By this time, I was stone deaf as the pressure difference had caused my ears to fail, but it truly was an amazing feeling! I'm sure Lila will bore you all with the DVD that she had filmed off her coming down in due course (all set to Guns n Roses as a musical backdrop)...we're were buzzing for the rest of the day!
Then it was back to tin-can for a drive back down the north island, where we pretended to be Hobbits at the base of Mount Doom. Sorry, David you would have loved to have seen it. You can see why Peter Jackson choose NZ as the setting for Middle-Earth. It's just as the book describes.
We've just got back to Wellington and are planning to have a celebratory drink or two. Not for Christmas, celebrating that we manged to survive 4 days in a 2-berth without causing serious damage to each other! Then, it's back to Melbourne on Christmas day to see Warney retire and England lose the Ashes 3-2.
Have a good christmas all
Ant/Swiss/Rigsby/Bally/ Casper
ps Chelsea, huh. Looks like a weekend in South Wales in late February beckons. I can't believe my brother has booked a skiing holiday that will mean that I miss the 2nd leg! You owe me big time Bro!
Pleased to report that the sun came out and the cloud lifted on Friday and revealed New Zealand to be the most spectacularly stunning place on earth. The countryside is just amazing! Think Wales, but without the male choirs and Wrexham lager and put in on a much bigger scale. It is just incredible, miles upon miles of rolling green hills, volcanic mountains and crystal clear lakes. We got upto Lake Taupo and saw the Huka Falls, the Craters of the Moon (A geothermal region, where the ground literally smokes - in fact Skipper, I would have for once, loved one of your ever so interesting lectures of igneous rock formation at this point for a change!), and thankfully the blue sky enabled us to climb to 15,000 feet and jump out of a aeroplane with little but a knapsack and a trained instructor for company.
Breath-taking is not the word! You are desperate for it to stop, just so you can take in the views, but unfortunately gravity has the effect of pulling you down to 5,000 foot in a minute 10 and then you get 4 minutes of parachuting. By this time, I was stone deaf as the pressure difference had caused my ears to fail, but it truly was an amazing feeling! I'm sure Lila will bore you all with the DVD that she had filmed off her coming down in due course (all set to Guns n Roses as a musical backdrop)...we're were buzzing for the rest of the day!
Then it was back to tin-can for a drive back down the north island, where we pretended to be Hobbits at the base of Mount Doom. Sorry, David you would have loved to have seen it. You can see why Peter Jackson choose NZ as the setting for Middle-Earth. It's just as the book describes.
We've just got back to Wellington and are planning to have a celebratory drink or two. Not for Christmas, celebrating that we manged to survive 4 days in a 2-berth without causing serious damage to each other! Then, it's back to Melbourne on Christmas day to see Warney retire and England lose the Ashes 3-2.
Have a good christmas all
Ant/Swiss/Rigsby/Bally/ Casper
ps Chelsea, huh. Looks like a weekend in South Wales in late February beckons. I can't believe my brother has booked a skiing holiday that will mean that I miss the 2nd leg! You owe me big time Bro!
posted by Ant | 2:46 am
1 Comments:
Bally
congrats to your lovely lady for surviving the trip in the camper with you and i wish you both a wonderful christmas and new year.Just had an email about the winter nets on sundays starting on the 21st Jan, so whilst us minions are getting our eyes in youll still be over there on a jolly, youd better get some practice in whilst away as the fight for places could be quite intense. Dont give us a thought in the freezing fog you have a wonderful time.Dick Medhurst
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