http://www.linsandrich.co.uk Lins and Rich's thoughts and photos from afar! Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:46:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having left Fiji at 10pm on Wednesday the 9th July, we quickly crossed the international date line and found ourselves arriving in L.A. 8 hours earlier at 1.20pm on Wednesday 9th July.  This did have some advantages - the fact that I only had to stay awake for a few ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=159 Hi everyone, just a mega quick update as the internet here in Fiji is dial up and its rapidly sapping my will to live. Just come back from five nights on the Yaswas and Mananuca islands off the west coast of the Fiji mainland. Its an amazing place with postcard beachs ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=158 Hello again. Its hammering down with rain and six degrees outside in Christchurch so what better time to update the blog. Currently in sunny Christchurch untill Monday morning when we fly out to Nadi, Fiji for hopefully a sunnier climate than New Zealand. The past couple of days have been spent ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=151 Hi everybody, in the words of Doctor Nick. Currently sat in Christchurch after a change of plans trying to sort out America which as with everything linked to that country is complicated. We were due to visit Mount cook national park over the last couple of days as I really fancied ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=150 So, I've been in Invercargill, the world's most southerly city, all afternoon and I haven't managed to check in to a hostel as the one we went to at 12.30 had a sign saying 'be back at 2', then we went back at 1.40, hopeful but not expectant and we ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=149 Good news - we got up on Monday morning to glorious sunshine and clear skies and headed back to the glacier guides centre to be told that things were looking good to fly today. the 5 of us jumped into the minibus and were dropped back at the helipad. ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=148 Luckily, for Saturday, we had planned the perfect gloomy day activity; sitting in a warm workshop, surrounded by various electric tools, we both carved our own jade necklaces.  Yes, that's Rich too.  I had spent some time on Friday night designing my own Mania - this is a Maori symbol ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=147 Hi all, my turn to do the blog entry so expect more bad engish and jokes. Can not belive how the time is flying by and its now less than 50 days untill we arrive back to the uk. Anyway, last entry ended with us sitting in an internet cafe in ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=146 Leaving Auckland for the second time, we headed to the Coromandel Peninsular to do a day's sight-seeing en-route to Waitomo.  Well, I say en-route; it is, in fact, quite a major detour, however, our sense of distance has altered somewhat since being in Oz and we now adopt quite a different ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=145 Hi everyone, well its been a while since we did a blog entry again. Lots of travelling has been done so I am going to split the blog entry into two otherwise it will take forever to read! Carrying on from the last blog entry we had a week ago today ... http://www.linsandrich.co.uk/?p=144