New Zealand Road Trip
Hi Folks
We leave for a 4 week road trip across NZ in early Sept. would be interested to hear from anyone who's done the same. Any tips and advice greatly appreciated.
cheers
Your're Joking !!! No Way !!. We walked up and down those stairs a couple of times.
But the missus enjoyed it as there's quite a few craft stalls and designer shops along the walkway from the beach to the stairs.
A couple of nights after dinner and a few too many wines, we'd take the free bus that runs every 10-15 minutes up and down the hill.
Rompi coglioni
Indeed - LOL . My missus just told me I'm a fool for not checking at the hotel.
Ah well . I know for next time !!
Guess you just lost the brownie points you got for the Aukland/Queenstown flight
no - not quite. gotta think on your feet eh. So I says to her, there's no way I would've wanted us stuck in that lift halfway up the cliff.Would have ruined our day. And btw, you did manage to tone that butt of yours nice an tight during that holiday :)
Love it. Did you bump into Rudd in the diplomatic corp
How do you get from Naples to Positano I use this guy ( probably in Camorra ) with an old open top six seater Fiat . The ride is part of the holiday .
Hired a car from Rome to get to Florence then back down to Rome, Naples, Sorrento and Positano.
dont need a car in Rome, as you can walk most places from a well located hotel near Termimi or anywhere in central Rome. Bus or cab it to non city sites, Vatican etc.
i prefer to have car so we can explore nearby sites. On the way to Amalfi, stopped at Pompeii ruins. Drove past Positano to a couple of other small towns on day trips as well.
the road along the coast is extremely narrow. Most times we had to stop to let a bus or truck navigate a turn.
Did the seagulls crap on you in Sorrento
The first time I went to Positano was in 1974 . I was in a group of Bankers including MD of CBA and the MD of the then SBSA we were guests of Al Italia who were introducing the ill fated DC10 and Olivetti .
The next time was in 1981 I was representing the client in overseeing a commercial and took the Aussie crew there. In Rome we put computers on blocks in the Trevi but as Charles and Dusna were visiting the Bella d art police tried to stop us had to pay them off . Then at the coliseum . . ....
What were you advertising - waterproof mini computers LOL
Whats the Bella d Art ? Never been there.
Love the Colleseum grounds. The restaurants just across from it are fantastic.
WHat happened there ?
The arts police
At the coliseum we were there early in the morning before they opened to the public and we where doing a shot that started on the floor of the coliseum pulled back to a camrera on the walls then to a helicopter shot there was fog at the helicopter pad so we had to delay and pay to keep tourists out until we could complete
Then at times square....
Ok, I'll bite. What happened at Times Sq.
you were a filming a naked lady parasailing off the Empire State Building when .........
So there I was sipping champagne in the back of the open top old six seater fiat on the road to Positano when oops wrong story.
In times square we again had to be there early in the morning with a crew so as to avoid creating a problem with the crowds . We only wanted a shot of the cupola on the AT&T building but with people in the foreground . No people that time of morning or not enough . So I had to round up as many as I could and pay them to march back and forth in front of the cameras shopping hats and jackets on each turnaround laugh I could have pi... Myself
That was the night I chatted up Stalins granddaughter in a New York Bar
When....
10 more days to go . Woo hoo!
so wtf happened at the bar with Stalin's grandaughter. You're either one lucky dude or a b/s merchant. In any case it makes good reading.
Actually I am sorry I identified her now . She is alive and well . So let's leave that one alone sorry .
But I was on the road in India in the back of a merc having left Jaipur heading back to Delhi to catch SQ to Singers where my girlfriend Mei Ling was waiting to meet me at the Airport when ....,
Mei Ling huh?
i knew a Mei Ling once. The things she could do with a ping pong ball would blow your mind!!!
Do you know that Mei Ling is the sound of a bell in Chinese .
My Mei Ling was much more refined than yours and very well connected .
No did not actually. But now that you mention it, my Mei Ling always knew how to " ring my bell"
i think she was from the old Bugis Street of Singers. They've since cleaned up that part of town. Bugger!
Sure she was a girl
Just joshin' bro. Checkin' if you really were kosher!
So far so good :)
Ahhh the ole Bugis St. The best Spore creole food in town back in the 70's - Portuguese/ Chinese /Malay /Indian / Javanese Jambalaya
Didn't realise this was a test
I'm still upset you got the classy Mei Ling, and I got the "ladyboy"
I'm still upset that you doubted my word , I don't have the imagination to invent or the memory to lie.
Apologies Pete.
Well she never got married runs one of her old mans companies see her when I pass through Singers .
so you broke the poor girls heart. scarred her for life ?
One of many
Well it all started in the Hand in Hand a pub on Wimbledon common . I had just got back from Delaware where I was floating a company on the OTC . I had arranged to meet Blondie for dinner and she turned up with this tall wafer thin Irish lass . She had just flown in from Germany and we got talking about our Favourite spots there. When she said she had always wanted to go to Prague .so I says as one does lets go tommorow by train ,
Next morning there she was with suitcase in hand outside Wimbledon train station .So we drive down to Dover to catch ferry and train it to Prague .
At Dover I go to the ticket office and ask for two tickets to Prague Unfotunately the last connections for the day had left . So I explained to the Irish lass the position and suggest we fly out and train back .
I rang Heathrow and for some reason I booked the next flight to Budapest well she was disappointed and I said no worries we will hire a motor and drive to Prague from Budapest not realizing how far it was .
when I got to Budapest they would not hire a car to go to Prague without an escort so after a couple of days in Budapest we flew to Prague .
Thats how I ended up in Prague with a six foot Irish lass.
Whilst in Prague I ended up one night with a mate at a Russian truck stop I have never seen such a place even in the theEast ,
SAR up 6% today. flight to gold continues. took profit on wpl .
never been to eastern europe. missus went to prague 3 years ago with her sister. one of her university professor mates, showed them around.
Bought back into SAR they will be good day trade for a while
SAR up 14 per cent on day
We have had two posts disappear after apologise Pete
And after one of many
Why are posts disappearing? One of mine to you seems to have gone as well. Strange.
My mate of Russian pit stop fame bought real estate around the Charles Bridge area made a killing
Have you been to Croatia. Friends of ours went on a cruise that took them from, Venice, Pula, Dubrovnik onto the Green Isles
Apparently tourism is thriving and property prices in some of the Craotian coastal town have skyrocketed.
No but one of my sons has and loved it
Amazing...Someone posts a question regarding their upcoming trip to NZ, asking what to see and do.
Three pages later, not a single respondant has mentoned NZ.
Instead they rant on about their trips abroad.
Here is a definitive answer from someone who has been there.
NZ, all good, except Invercargil.
My Grannie used to say whenever I grumbled about anything
"There is always someone worse off than yourself."
It took a while to find them....... people who live in Invercargil.
Phil.
You obviously did not read the beginning of the thread this is the travel section and we have both lived in NZ
Which bit did you enjoy reading
Invercargil, where everyone is dressed in dark blue and bent forwards against the wind. Where floodmarks are posted all over town.
I don't remember us talking about invargill?
Invercargill
We spent New Years Eve and New Years Day in Dunedin once must have been the most boring town in NZ. Absolutely nothing happening NY Eve and absolutely dead NY Day.
Was going to comment on what my daughter had to say how she is finding the beginning of her month long trip in NZ, on her way to Tauranga today but it would appear that the whole topic of NZ road trip has developed into a very personalised world travel saga, bit sleazy at times, so who is now on or off topiic?
Bit sleazy at time?
for goodness sake! Which bit other then the obvious throwaway humour did you find sleazy.
i wonder sometimes. There are quite a few shit stirrers on this forum!!!
Now Pete, where were we. Tell us about the truck stop.
and yes SAR was up 13%. Well den mate. I have one speculative stock on my portfolio, ADN. That's causing me enough grief at the moment.
I don't think I should go into the Russian Truck stop outside of Prague as it might upset our more delicate and frail older members .
However as viv wants us to restrict to N.Z I will tell you about Bazza from Ashburton Attila the Nun from ivarcargill and how Mae from HOnkers ended up in queens town when my I pad recharges
Frankie , the tall Irish lass never married, and lives in Penzance , which has turned into a artist colony . She does ceramics and is quite well known . I just remembered a story about Franki and she was in Bethlehem in a truck driven by An Arab ) anyway Blondie who was my PA in London Franki and Lindabelle who took over my flat in Thurlough Sq ( opposite the V&A ) all get together when I am in London . None of my friends are sleazy and would be horrified to know Lushy existed .
LOL. pete. Sounds like you've had a colourful life.
Tell us more. What happened on the truck drive to Bethleham.
Well it wasn't me but Franki and I am a bit hazy , Franki is six foot thin and long red hair so she kinda stands out .She was staying at a Kibbutz just outside of Haifa and had been over the Allenby bridge into Jordan . On the way back her car broke down and she flagged down a truck to take her to Bethlehem to get a mechanic .The driver was Arab and was delivering Vegatables to shops in Bethlahem. When they got t Bethlahem Franki got a bit suspisiouse as the guy was not directing her to a mechanic So eventually she sees an Israeli patrol and does a runner with the Arab guy screaming benhnd her . The Israelis put a couple of shots in the air and rescued her . So there was Franki sitting up in the back of Israeli patrol truck with twelve beefy Israelis . Who took her back and fixed her car .
Lucky escape. She may have ended up in a rich Arabs harem. Wonder how many camels she would have been worth:)
Why don't pete and jag just email each other instead of boring us all with their chat show on a forum???
You listening Mr Drew.
My dear Scottish Michael Jackson. Neither i nor Pete object to you living vicariously through our adventures. Whatever sexual satisfaction you may acquire by such voyeurism, is entirely for your perverse digestion.
Did you know at Fornillo beach there is a lift down and saves the 500 steps