Ok first I have to admit I stole the post title from RVA Bike Commuter but I liked it so much!
Here is my new bike which was $80 on trademe:
Thanks Dad for buying this for me!
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On the last day of summer school I managed to complete course approval (about four steps to confirm degree, papers and get a student ID) and find a great flat in Maia (on the way to Port Chalmers) and then I headed back to Christchurch on the Friday to sort out and pack up my stuff that I’d left at Mum and Dad’s house. We arranged to hire a big cargo van to move my furniture and Dad was going to drive it down and help me with everything on Wednesday.
On Tuesday just after lunch he took my car down to the local garage for a WOF and I was home alone when another major earthquake struck. Continue reading →
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My blog got hacked and in fixing it I’ve lost the photos. 
Well, I don’t have a recent enough backup of the database from before it was hacked to put them back in, and can’t be bothered doing it manually, so that’s that!
At least I got it up and running again by myself 
This afternoon I had orientation for the 3-week Bridging Chemistry summer school course I’m doing at Otago before I start Semester One. We got our timetable (9am – 3.3opm with an optional tutorial after that) and course outline and the lecturer told us what to expect etc. Continue reading →
On Friday 6th we left Tubingen reasonably early and drove through the Swiss border to Winterthur where Simone was living. I was very excited about seeing her again and she’d taken the day off work for us. We collected her and she suggested we go to a vegetarian restaurant in town for lunch before carrying on – she said it was different to what we get in NZ and much more choice and she was so right! They had all these amazing salads and hot dishes and little bits and pieces laid out as a buffet and you just take a bit of whatever you want then take your plate (or takeaway dish) and they charge you by weight. It wasn’t cheap, but then my plate was pretty full too because I wanted to try all the yummy-looking food! So we had a delicious lunch before we decided to drive to Lucerne and have a look there before heading to her parents near Interlaken. Continue reading →
After we left Hamburg the GPS navigator said we’d get to Lauda about 4.30pm, but in the end there was so much roadworks that it was just after 6pm. There were quite a lot of places where the motorway was cut down to one or two lanes in each direction and I got so sick of crawling along in first or second gear. We didn’t stop anywhere on the way other than driver changes and toilet breaks and I think we even ate lunch on the go.
Lauda was full of cool old buildings like these, I'm sure they've actually been "renovated" to look like this though, as we saw an ad in a window for it and they look far too fresh and clean and new.
When we got to Lauda it was dark but the navigator took us straight to our hotel in the centre of town (a very small town!) and the guy was expecting us and very friendly. Continue reading →
We arrived in Hamburg late afternoon on Monday 2nd November. Reece’s sister and brother-in-law had rented an apartment within walking distance of town, so we were able catch up on washing which was great, and they had dinner organised for us too. Continue reading →
Roadside Snack Stand at Lauwersmeer National Park in the freezing cold wind
After our second night at Monnickendam we headed north and drove along a huge dyke at Waddenzee, then started tiki-touring to to find somewhere for lunch (it was Sunday and everything was closed) and finally stopped at a little roadside stand at Lauwersmeer National Park at the start of another dyke. We climbed up the dyke and had a look along, it was quite high and the wind was absolutely freezing! So we warmed up with frites and hot chocolate from the snack stand before carrying on to Groningen where we were staying the night. Reece ordered a “Big Frik” which made me think of Scrubs and was basically a long sausage with sauces, and not as good as the picture looked either. Continue reading →
