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My mother always claimed to have to live near the sea. She was born in a house across the road from the sea in Wellington. Around 70 years later she died in that house and my brother and I inherited. We sold it a few years later because although the view was nice – the house…
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Sometimes you just have to go and look in real life. A house that is for sale in a Titahi Bay has caught my interest. In fact I’ve looked at all the photos many times, worked out the floor plan, driven the area via Google Street View.I’ve googled it and found a previous issue with a…
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Buying a home is a big deal – but the start of this story was quite casual, I had a vague feeling that I wanted to move nearer the sea. We’d previously discussed moving somewhere warmer, probably Tauranga – but the tropic is that it’s not THAT much warmer, and it’s a small town. I…
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The short version – travelling the USA for 4 weeks in a hire car cost us around $800 for the car – plus US$240/day for all costs for 2 adults. To see where we went see my Road Trip Plan post. Note these costs do NOT include the far more expensive cities of Philadelphia, New…
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Starting to get excited now – I know living in the “now” is a big thing is some corners of the Interwebs – but I love to dream and plan! It’s a cold, wet and miserable Maundy Thursday as I write this, and we will be locking the door behind us on Easter Sunday –…
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This is a bit of a rant disguised as useful information – I just read a well-known travel blogger’s take on stress-free travel. It all sounded very chill so long as you can afford priority access through security, lounge access and business class. Back in the real world, I don’t waste money of flights, I’m…
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Short version – yes. Longer version. I have a decent “super-zoom” camera – the Canon 20IS (the 50IS is the latest model). I’ve had it for several years and am not planning on replacing it. But I know more and more travellers are ditching their point and shoot cameras and just using iPads or phones…
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So I’m a bad blogger, and I don’t update often enough. But when I do update, it’s genuine. Which is why I’m not going to Malta. But I probably need to back up and explain: Malta is running a campaign which sees them sponsoring 72 travel bloggers to visit in 2014 In some ways this…
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I have traveled Ireland several times – but for many people Ireland is their first trip overseas so what should a beginner be thinking about if they are considering a trip to the Emerald Isle. You could decide to go with an organized tour – lets be clear tours are great – so long as…
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Sydney was my first overseas city which I traveled to solo At 19 at scored a holiday job a summer job with a multi-national oil company in Sydney’s Rocks area. A few weeks ago my latest trip was because I was taking a travel writing course Sydney Transport Options The first time I arrived I caught…
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