Thursday, August 31, 2006



This is a satellite picture of Mission Bay, Auckland, we'll be stopping near to the centre of this picture. The little blue circle near the top left of the picture is a well-known Mission Bay landmark, a fountain that lights up at night. It's very odd to think that we'll be looking at this in a few days' time. It's a small world, as I write this in Caversham, England, I'm listening to Radio New Zealand, streamed off the Internet.

Click on the satellite image to make it larger.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Next week we'll be leaving for a three-month visit to New Zealand and I've started this blog to keep friends in touch with what we have been doing there. We'll be based in Mission Bay, Auckland, but intend to travel around both islands and fit-in a week-long visit to Sydney as well.