Monday, December 15, 2008

Saturday 13th December 2008- Not much really

An easy morning with a little bit of shopping as Valda is coming for dinner tomorrow night and so there is a little preparation to be carried out for the evening.

The walk was really lovely and we watched the kite surfing, which is using a large kite to pull a person on a surf board. This looks like a hard thing to do and there were quite a few people falling off. It’s a pity I did not have my camera to record the events for posterity or at least the blog.

The afternoon passed sweetly enough and a woolly old brown Alsatian type dog turned up out of the blue and sat down on the balcony like he owned it. We subsequently understood that this is the dog called Griz that Brian has sort of taken over as its own home life is poor. Apparently there are family problems where he lives and everybody ignores the dog. It would appear that Brian felt sorry for this animal and has bathed it, taken it to the vet for jabs and even fed and walked it. It looks as if whilst he is away perhaps the owners are not caring again- what a shame.

No news on the body pulled from the sea yet and so we will wait for the gossip to reach us.

In the afternoon we spent some time considering our options for our return to UK. At the moment we are booked on a through flight with a technical stop in Hong Kong. It is like this as it was difficult to fully plan six months in advance how we will feel. Anyway we have found that the flight to Hong Kong leaves Auckland at 2355 (quite late) and arrives in Hong Kong at 0615 (bloody early) it then leaves Hong Kong at 0715 for London. So if we are to stop in Hong Kong it’s a very early arrival and an even earlier wake up call unless we stay near the Airport.

We have also looked at routing via Los Angeles and also San Francisco but immigration in USA is a pain in both LAX and San Francisco as they are looking for illegal immigrants, drugs and so on. So we are probably going to stick with Hong Kong for a three night layover and just get used to the timing.