A long Waitangi Day weekend produced a fantastic bit of summer weather with a family ride along the Hogs Back Track with the Maddigans on Waitangi Day itself, followed by a decent day tramp the next day up to Temple Basin in Arthurs Pass.
The last leg of our Europe trip was staying with friends near London giving us the opportunity to do a few “big city” activities, including the Natural History Museum, banks and bridges along the Thames, Windsor Castle etc.
We’d deliberately selected a high European resort for our weeks skiing as we were aware that a lot of recent European winters have been fairly late starting, and we were so glad we did. Avoriaz is at an altitude of approx 1800m, and when we arrived there was little snow…
New Years 2015 was spent over 10 days in Belfast with a fair bunch of the UK Boyd family, and as always, it was great to catch up. Highlights included visiting the Titanic Museum in the new (to me anyway) Titanic Quarter of the Belfast dock area, a wintry walk…
After a long but relatively uneventful series of flights via Singapore (met up with the Reids in the open-air pool at the transit hotel in Singapore at 11pm which was very refreshing) and Heathrow (Terminal 5 building and staff both much more welcoming than our memory of the last trip),…
E headed up to Auckland with her Canterbury team-mates for the National Gymsports Championships after qualifying 12th nationally (have to qualify in the top 20 to compete in the National Champs). Her goal was to finish in the top 10 which was a tough goal for her having finished 17th…