On The Road Again...

Sorry for the long silence but there is only so much you can talk about in Akaroa. But the time has come after 2 months in Akaroa; I am hitting the road again.

I have really enjoyed my time here in this quiet coastal town despite the rocky start but as is the nature of travelling, I have to say goodbye.

There are a few things I will miss about Akaroa…

1.       Watching Charlie Chaplin walking to work on Saturday mornings.

2.       Waking up to a symphony of birds.

3.       Sitting on the beach with Sina and watching the sunset.

4.       The Akaroa library and the crotchety ladies who work there.

5.       My Ma Masion crew: Puai, Sina, Brooke, Levi, Chris, Kinnear, Ben, Tracy, Kevin, Marley, Finn and even Surly Simon. I will especially miss Ricki who saved my sanity during those tough first weeks and turned out to be a kindred soul.

On the flip side, I will not miss…

1.       Walking up the hill to my home multiple times a day.

2.       Watching Nickelodeon and Disney channel. (Why do parents let their children watch that crap)

3.        Sitting on the beach and being eaten by sand flies.

4.       Nowhere to just dance up a storm.

5.       Small town mentality where everyone knows your business.

I am happy and thankful to my co-worker Kevin for taking me kayaking the other day to see some penguins, and seals. He and his wife run kayaking tours out of a penguin reserve on the other side of the hills in Flea Bay. It was so great to finally get out there as Kevin had originally said he would take me for my birthday but we were waiting for nice weather. Unfortunately, all my day offs for the past month have had pretty shitty weather so we postponed until finally I just had to go even though it wasn’t ideal weather. This summer has been a pretty gloomy and rainy one for us here in Akaroa, which is unusual.

Oh Akaroa…I will have very fond memories of my times here on the piss, hanging with Sina pretty much every day, chilling with my kiwi roommate as he teaches me some kiwi slang and all the ways to say “going on the piss”,  cruising in the Japanese Jag with Ricki, and reading endlessly in the sunshine.

Onwards I go, next up Queenstown where I will be bungy jumping from the 134m Nevis jump. Yes I will pee myself but at least I will do it. I am pretty much skipping over the rest of the East coast as I have been warned it is pretty boring. I will be spending the next 2 weeks in the West of the South island and then parking for a couple months in Wellington or maybe even Nelson.

XOXO Sid