So much for having wads of time to blog, I’m back in London now. Taking a holiday in NZ doesn’t involve a whole lot of time indoors.
Fortunately I managed to do some things I’ve wanted to do since I was a teen: walked around Lake Waikaremoana with my father and brother, sailed through Milford Sound, and hitched up the West Coast of the South Island.
More photos on Flickr.com.
One interesting thing to come out of it for me is the realisation that Aotearoa is not so much unique for its wilderness but for the isolation of its wilderness. I love London because there’re so many bloody people here, of all walks of life. Conversely what I love about NZ is the fact that there’s almost no people, and the culture that grows from that.
While I was back it took me some time to get used to anybody within a five metre radius saying hi or kia ora. And I remember arriving in NZ with a list of things that I’d given myself a week to do. I crossed off the last item by lunch time of the first day. No queues, no items out of stock, no parking problems. No dramas.
Unfortunately, given a chance, the growth imperative of our current infantile economic system will likely put an end to all this eventually, including the purity of the NZ wilderness.
I’m currently flying over Germany somewhere at about 10000 metres above sea level. Had to write a quick blog. The plane has an internet connection which I’m able to connect to wirelessly with my laptop. Things have come quite a way since I flew to London four years ago. Even managed to login into the server at work already and check the backup logs.
I just finished talking to the boss at work with the use of Skype too, a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) app; the internet’s answer to the telephone, clearer than my mobile phone and free to boot. Great stuff.
Anyway, it feels good to be on the move again, even if it is in a gas guzzling 747.
Looking forward to seeing everyone in NZ.
I’m going/coming home to NZ for a couple of months on 29 November. Looking forward to some fresh air, water and food. Looking forward to getting out into the bush too. And the whanau of course, including another new niece!
Might even have time to do a little more writing on this blog while I’ve got my feet up. Now your fucked.
If you know of anyone who needs a room in London for a couple of months let me know. I’ll be back in London at the end of January if you miss me. 
Ka kite ano Londoners.
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