on nz

well i'm here
or there if you're reading this from home
i'm in new zealand
palmerston north to be exact.
as i said it's a couple of hours north of wellington

so it took like 4 months to fly to nz or well it seemed to take that long anyway
flew dublin london 1hour (plus an extra 1hr 20mins on the tarmac due to stupid ground crew)
london to hong kong 11hours 15 minutes (good food on the plane, nice airport)
hong kong to Auckland 10 hours 45 minutes (food not so good but had 2 seats for myself!!)
Auckland to wellington (and a fire in wellington airport meant we had to sit for ages waiting to get off the plane, silly fire)
and then a 2 hour drive to palmy

only comments on the journey are these
firstly traveling for 87 days isn't that bad at all
i didn't get dvt or cramp, the movies were good and i slept a good bit
take off from hong kong.... wow
flying in over Auckland.... wow (kinda reminded me of postman pat, it's all hilly)
Auckland to wellington... hugging the coast all the way absolutely beautiful

so i'm in palmy anyway
it's bigger that i imagined
and a bit like all those cities and large towns you see in american movies
all the roads are 4 lanes and there are really nice old buildings right next door to warehouses
i have to say it's growing on me
the people in shops and stuff are so nice
even in the golden arches
they ask you how your day is going so far
it's nice
it means you get to talk to people even though the nearest person to me that i know
would be about 5000 miles away in Bankok (hi andy and laura)
thats nice

i have a mobile phone that people from ireland can't text to!!!
how weird is that?
i think if i text an 087 number they can reply to that text within 24hours but other than that
it won't work
crazy kiwi's

anyhow
that's about it for the minute
i'll post again soon