Friday, 17 August 2007

New Zealand

http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4168647a6009.html.

Check the above link out to a Christchurch front page news story and guess who was in the CD store on Columbo Street at the time????? Right by the entrance too... God it was loud and made me jump a bit but everyone just carried on as though nothing happened and I saw the bin smoking and the lid blown off. Closest I've been to a bloody bomb and saw the guys in the white holden looking a bit strange beforehand. Wasn't expecting that on this journey!!!!

Anyway to New Zealand - wow!!!! On the South Island at the moment for about 3 weeks and it's beautiful. Just the drive from the airport to Sam's house in Diamond Harbour is like driving through Glencoe. The mountains are beautifl and run all the way to the coast, loads of snow here right now as well and will be off to Queenstown next week to start my skiing career. Got a hire car with snowchains and really looking forward to it. Will be going bungy jumping and shotover jetting and whatever else I can do during 3 days there.



So far have been to Christchurch and Akoroa in my first couple of days here - this is Akaroa.
Today have met Wayne Smith the ex All Black and Northampton coach who is now forwards coach for the All Blacks under Graham Henry and is simply one of the nicest guys I have met. Got introduced by Macca and he is getting the All Blacks to sign an All Black shirt for each of us and will send it on. So will get that when I get back - how superb is that? Jealous Karlos?? He's the one on the left here and under the mat in other pic. Top bloke

2 comments:

Nick said...

Just checked out the site buddy. Well impressed!! Shame about the fat b~~~~rd in all the pics though! Hope the sting is healing. Judging by the "I've done me washing" pic it appears you're not washing your undies. And you wonder why you're not pulling on a regular basis. Making front page news too eh? Just one request, next time I try and off me best mate, can he have the common bloody decency to stand closer to the lethal device please?

Love ya, Nick

Richard White said...

Blimey Dunc - I know I said to spice the blog up a bit, but setting off coke bottle bombs is taking it a bit far. These sound like the classic dry ice in a bottle of fizzy and run jobs. Loads of them on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTP4yp8y_NA