<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712</id><updated>2011-04-22T08:53:49.535+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady Mary in NZ</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-111108303964600063</id><published>2005-03-18T07:09:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-03-18T07:10:39.646+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Att bú!</title><content type='html'>I survived the flights and the jet lag and am starting to paint my flat tomorrow and moving in hopefully next week. I don't start work untill after easter .. jesss .. and for continued reports of the adventures of Lady Mary please go to my &lt;a href="http://ladymary.blogspot.com"&gt;icelandic&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-111108303964600063?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/111108303964600063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=111108303964600063' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111108303964600063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111108303964600063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/03/att-b.html' title='Att bú!'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-111025821374650805</id><published>2005-03-08T17:46:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-03-08T18:03:33.746+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Einn dagur eftir...</title><content type='html'>Jæja, það kom að því að þetta myndi enda. 24 tímar eftir en ferðin héðan til Íslands mun taka ca. 72 klst. Þannig að ég lofa engu um gott ástand eftir að ég kem heim. En ég er búin að tékka á hvaða myndir ég fæ að horfa á í fluginu og það eru ágætis myndir eins  og t.d. Ray, Bridget Jones, Incredibles og eitthvað fleira svo ég ætti að geta ruslast í gegnum tvö 12 tíma flug án þess að deyja úr leiðindum. Nema ég verði sett á Business Class eins og gerðist þegar ég flaug frá LA til Nýja Sjálands sem ég get sagt ykkur að var GEÐVEIKT. Ef maður hefði nú peninga til að ferðast svoleiðis alltaf...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En það hafa bara verið rólegheit síðustu daga - fór að sjá &lt;a href="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/"&gt;Constantine&lt;/a&gt; með honum Keanu mínum (btw. Begga þetta breytir engu um GB.. bara svo það sé á hreinu ;o) og mér fannst hún virkilega góð. Það er frábær húmor í þessari  mynd - svona svartur, kaldhæðinn húmor. Mæli með henni.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-111025821374650805?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/111025821374650805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=111025821374650805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111025821374650805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111025821374650805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/03/einn-dagur-eftir.html' title='Einn dagur eftir...'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-111007665167897702</id><published>2005-03-06T15:29:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-03-06T16:01:28.146+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Ironman</title><content type='html'>Yesteday was &lt;a href="http://www.ironman.co.nz"&gt;Ironman&lt;/a&gt; day. It was just amazing to watch. 1170 people started and 1115 finished the race. All kinds of people of all ages - the oldest one in the race was 69 years old. Me and and some mates of &lt;a href="http://liveupdate.ironmanlive.com/ppv/athlete.php?rid=45&amp;bib=1105"&gt;Raewyns&lt;/a&gt; were supporting her and &lt;a href="http://liveupdate.ironmanlive.com/ppv/athlete.php?rid=45&amp;amp;bib=1242"&gt;Debbie&lt;/a&gt;. The race started at 7 am and the last Ironman finished 1 minutes to midnight. Even though the support team obviously was not swimming, biking or running we all agreed that supporting people in the Ironman must be "almost" as tiring as actually taking part ;o) I was knackered last night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raewyn did really well - although she did faint on the run. But after about 5 minutes of drinking water and sitting down she just kept on going and finished in just under 14 hours. It's actually incredible how well she is today considering what she was doing yesterday - she's not jumping around but she's not just about dying which is what I would expect her to be after something like this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-111007665167897702?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/111007665167897702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=111007665167897702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111007665167897702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/111007665167897702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/03/ironman.html' title='Ironman'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110983439172786927</id><published>2005-03-03T19:43:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-03-03T20:31:01.693+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Shopping and Rotorua</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Thvi midur tha get eg ekki breytt lyklabordinu i islensku.. buhuhu - Fyrir tha sem nenna ekki ad lesa thetta "enska drasl" ;o) tha er eg buin ad baeta vid nyjum myndum sem haegt er ad sja &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/"&gt;her&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shopping in Auckland didn't really go as planned. I was going to shop LOADS but as usual when I plan to shop I don't manage to find a lot. But I did manage to buy two new pairs of shoes - you can never have too many shoes. On Tuesday I drove down to Taupo with Raewyn and on the way stopped at her mom's place and got some more of my clothes.. vei!! I don't know if people have noticed this (as there aren't that many pictures of me) but I've been wearing the same clothes for two months and now finally I get to wear something else. I wouldn't have believed how bored you get with wearing the same clothes for two months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then yesterday I went to Rotorua which is known for it's thermal areas and geysirs. I obviously had to check them out. They were really nice, much bigger then we have in Iceland and a lot more trees - but that's the same as everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've finally added some photos which include a few from &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/lotr_ferdin/"&gt;LOTR trip&lt;/a&gt; (can't really put many in there - the others need way too much explanation), &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/wanaka_and_auckland/"&gt;my 'meeting' with Kiwi&lt;/a&gt; (which was really nice - he has a lovely wife) and some from &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/rotorua/"&gt;Rotorua&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110983439172786927?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110983439172786927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110983439172786927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110983439172786927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110983439172786927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/03/shopping-and-rotorua.html' title='Shopping and Rotorua'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110936879736281842</id><published>2005-02-26T10:48:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-28T09:39:43.500+13:00</updated><title type='text'>LOTR og Wellington</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;English version is below the icelandic one...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOTR ferðin var eiginlega frekar fyndin. Ég vissi ekkert við hverju ég átti að búast í þessari ferð og þegar okkur var sýndur fyrsti tökustaðurinn þá trúði ég því ekki að þetta ætti allt að vera svona og ég sem hafði borgað formúgu fyrir þessa ferð. Fyrsti tökustaðurinn var sem sagt runni þar sem Sam, Frodo og Gollum hjúfra sig undir í einu atriðinu. Ég var allvegbara.. váá!! Það voru hjón þarna frá Kanada sem eru í NZ í tvær vikur og það eina sem þau eru að gera er að fara í LOTR ferðir. Þegar það var búið að útskýra þennan runna fyrir okkur þá hentu þau sér undir þennan runna og það voru teknar þvílíkt margar myndir af þeim. Mér var boðið að fara undir þennan runna líka en ég afþakkaði það pent. En mér fannst ég nú verða að taka mynd af þessum blessaða runna svo ég gerði það (mínus ég undir honum). En þetta reyndar batnaði eftir þetta og það var talað um ýmislegt áhugavert og manni sýnt ýmislegt áhugavert. En svo komu þessir "runnar" og "steinar" sem þessi og hinn hafði setið á/undir og sagt þetta og þessi kanada hjón tóku örruglega þúsund myndir. Ég hef nú samt á tilfinningunni að það séu aðeins tveir aðilar sem kannski gætu haft áhuga á að sjá þetta hjá mér og hlusta á það sem mér var sagt.... I'll name no names ;o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ég flaug svo til Wellington og hef verið hér síðan á þriðjudag. Ég gisti hjá Jess og Jill sem eru vinir Raewyn sem búa þar og þau eru virkilega yndæl. Ég hef eytt dögunum í að ráfa um miðbæ Wellington og fara í nokkrar gönguferðir og fór svo í smá ferð um þinghús NZ. Búin að eyða smá af peningum en hef ákveðið að á mánudaginn (þá verð ég í Auckland) ætla ég að "shop til I drop". Þá verður sko aðalverslunardagurinn.. því ég hef eiginlega ekkert getað verslað hérna því ég er náttúrulega með allt í bakpokanum mínum og ef ég kaupi eitthvað þá þarf ég að bera það í margar vikur svo ég hef bara sleppt því... en það er kominn tími á þetta og verslið verður tekið með stæl á mánudaginn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOTR trip was very intresting both for the LOTR stuff and also for the weird stuff some completely obsessed LOTR fans find intresting. The first location we were  shown was a bush were apparently Sam, Frodo and Gollum had hid under f rom the Nazgul. At that moment I couldn't believe I had paid all that money to go on this trip. There were a couple of people who actually got very excited by this bush and threw themselves underneath it and had their picture taken -  I did not! But after that it got more interesting and lots of stories and got to see loads of props - it was  fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since tuesday I've  been staying in Wellington with friends of a friend. They've been very nice to me and have shown me around. I've mostly been wondering around town, did some shopping, went to the botanical garden, parliament building, Carter observatory and got to look at the sun through a filtered telescope. Would have seen some sun flares but there was cloud cover so they are really hard to see through that.. apparently. On sunday I'm going back to Auckland and there I will shop, shop, shop and then shop some more. Oh, yeah and also see Kiwi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110936879736281842?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110936879736281842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110936879736281842' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110936879736281842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110936879736281842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/lotr-og-wellington.html' title='LOTR og Wellington'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110888347249641759</id><published>2005-02-20T19:31:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-20T20:24:18.356+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Collingwood, Punakaiki, Fox Glacier</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;English version is below the Icelandic entry... obviously Iceland comes first because we RULE!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collingwood var virkilega fyndinn 3ja götu bær með einum pöbb og súkkulaðibúð. Ég hjólaði þar ca 12 km (aðra leið) út að strönd og eyddi þar nokkrum tímum að sóla mig. Það var alveg frábært því það var næstum því enginn á þessari strönd. En reyndar daginn eftir komst ég að því að það höfðu líka verið moskítóflugur á þessari strönd og ég endaði með eitthvað um 30 moskítóbit þar af 5 hægra megin á hálsinum þannig að ég leit út eins og ég hefði verið bitin af vampíru. Annan daginn sem ég var í Collingwood þá vaknaði ég klukkan hálf sex (ótrúlegt en satt) og fór í ferð út á Farewell Spit sem er 27 km langt sandrif. Virkilega gaman - út á endanum á þessu sandrifi er viti og þar var stoppað og boðið upp á kaffi og muffins. Í þessari ferð hitti ég Claire sem er bresk stelpa sem er líka að ferðast ein nema það að hún er með bílaleigubíl og var akkúrat að fara sömu leið og ég niður vesturströndina þannig að ég fékk far með henni og slapp því við 15 klukkutíma í rútu. Við keyrðum niður að Punekaiki þar sem pönnukökusteinarnir eru og gistum þar í eina nótt og keyrðum svo þaðan til Franz Josef og Fox jöklanna. Claire fór í þyrluferð upp á jökulinn en ég fór nú bara í hálfsdagsferð þar sem maður fékk aðeins að klifra í jöklinum. Vildi frekar eyða peningunum í aðra ferð sem verður sagt frá síðar ;o) Þetta eru sem sagt skriðjöklar og jú, jú ágætis skriðjöklar en það sem mér fannst best var að það var þurrt og ... ekki beint kalt en kaldara loft .. svipað og er heima. Þetta er eini staðurinn sem ég hef lent í því að fá bara heimþrá. En svo í morgun þá keyrðum við Claire til Wanaka þar sem ég er núna. Wanaka er virkilega yndislegur bær sem er með LOTR ferðir... Marý ætlar að gerast nörd á morgun og fara í &lt;a href="http://www.lordoftheringstours.co.nz/trails_of_middle_earth.htm"&gt;rándýra LOTR ferð&lt;/a&gt; þar sem verður farið á 18 mismunandi tökustaði :oÞ hlakkar ekkert smá til.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Í öðrum fréttum er það að ég er loksins búin að geta keypt auka pláss á þessari myndasíðu minni - var í einhverju veseni með kortið mitt - og er búin að bæta inn fullt af myndum og er búin að flokka þær niður og ég veit ekki hvað og hvað.. En allavega þið getið séð þær með því að &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/"&gt;smella hér&lt;/a&gt;. Og ég er aftur komin í GSM samband.&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Collingwood was a really nice one horse town with a pub and a chocolate shop. I did the mistake of cycling 12 km - one way - to a beach, which was lovely and more or less deserted, but full of moskitos. But I didn´t know that untill the day after when I woke up with 30 bites. Anyway I went on a trip out to Farewell Spit which is a 27 km long sandreef which is a nature reserve. It was really nice and we saw loads of birds. At the end of the reef is a lighthouse where we stopped for coffee and muffins.. Lovely. On this trip I met Claire (UK) who is also travelling along but more importantly has a rental car and I ended up getting a lift with her for the next four days. Which was lovely coz otherwise I would have had to spend about 15 hours in a bus. With her I drove down to Punekaiki where we saw the pancake rocks and from there we drove to Franz Josef and Fox glaciers. Which was lovely and actually made me feel a little homesick. I went on a half day glacier walk but Claire splashed out for a heli-hike which involved a helicopter and loads of nice stuff but it cost a fortune. This morning we drove to Wanaka where I, Mary, the nerd am going on a &lt;a href="http://www.lordoftheringstours.co.nz/trails_of_middle_earth.htm"&gt;LOTR trip&lt;/a&gt;.. am very much looking forward to it and you can all eat your hearts out!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/"&gt;More pictures, more pictures...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110888347249641759?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110888347249641759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110888347249641759' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110888347249641759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110888347249641759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/collingwood-punakaiki-fox-glacier.html' title='Collingwood, Punakaiki, Fox Glacier'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110876310113957041</id><published>2005-02-19T10:43:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-19T10:45:01.140+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Sma frettatilkynning: Eg er nuna a svaedi tar sem er ekkert gsm samband tannig ad ef einhver hefur verid ad reyna ad na i mig ta er tad sem sagt ekki haegt. Skrifa meira seinna...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110876310113957041?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110876310113957041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110876310113957041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110876310113957041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110876310113957041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/sma-frettatilkynning-eg-er-nuna-svaedi.html' title=''/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110835225753794378</id><published>2005-02-14T16:11:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-14T16:48:02.780+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Nelson, Motueka and Takaka</title><content type='html'>Since I've found another computer I can change to an icelandic one AND since I've not seen a comment written by an english speaking person since Christchurch I am assuming no one, english speaking that is, is reading this so I will not feel guilty about this ... so there... hmph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jæja, búin að skamma bretana. Sjáum hvað gerist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Var í Nelson í tvo daga - virkilega skemmtileg lítil borg. Reyndar frekar "löng" því ég ákvað að labba út á höfn, því það eru víst ægilega skemmtilegir veitingastaðir, og á kortinu þá virtist þetta ekkert vera neitt rosalega langt.. en vá ... það tók mig 40 mínútur að labba þangað úr miðbænum. Ég tók leigubíl til baka. Ég fór einnig í bíó (var komin með fráhvarseinkenni) og sá það eina sem var verið að sýna það kvöld - &lt;a href="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0357277/"&gt;Elektra&lt;/a&gt;. Jennifer Garner er í voða flottu formi og lemur mann og annan, ekki skemmir fyrir að Luka úr ER er í myndinni. En fyrir utan það er þetta ágætis video mynd. Missti mig svo algerlega í &lt;a href="http://www.beads.co.nz/"&gt;Perlubúðinni&lt;/a&gt; (gler perlur ekki alvöru) - og mun nú geta búið til hálsmen og armbönd handa hverjum þeim sem vilja... (fyrir lítinn sem engan pening ;o).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Þaðan fór ég til Motueka sem er hálftíma frá Abel Tasman sem er vinsælasti þjóðgarðurinn í NZ rómaður fyrir mesta sólskin í NZ, gullnar strendur og krystaltæran sjó. En það hlaut að koma að því að ég myndi lenda í rigningu og fyrsta daginn minn í Motueka var bara rok og rigning upp á íslenska móðinn (og ég varð hundblaut). Annan daginn var köflótt veður - rigning og sól til skiptis og þriðja daginn þegar ég loksins gat farið í kajaka ferð þá reyndar hélst hann þurr en það var smá gola og hálfskýjað. En kajakaferðin var fín - sá fullt af gullnum ströndum, seli og það er fáránlegt hvað sjórinn er tær þarna. Svo var ég ægilega ánægð eftir ferðina - hafði næstum því ekkert blotnað (í síðustu kajakaferð í Akaroa varð ég hundblaut og allt mér sjálfri að kenna) en svo þegar hraðbáturinn kom og náði í okkur til að taka okkur til baka þá þurfti ég að labba út í sjó upp á mið læri (vegna ástæðna sem er allt of mikið vesen að fara út í hér) og varð þ.a.l. hundblaut. Þegar ég var svo eitthvað að reyna að krönglast upp í bátinn var sagt við mig: "Settu fótinn bara upp á brettið og hífðu þig upp" - já, góðan daginn!! Ég stóð út í sjó upp á mið læri, rétt náði í handriðið á bátnum og brettið sem ég átti að stíga upp á var mér í mittishæð. Einmitt, nákvæmlega! En á endanum komst ég upp í bátinn og er með þennan fína marblett á öðru hnénu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Í morgun kom ég til Takaka sem er mest frægt fyrir að vera næst &lt;a href="http://www.newzealand.com/travel/library/150_4.jpg"&gt;Te Waikoropupu&lt;/a&gt; ferskvatnslindunum - sem á víst að vera hreinasta vatn í heimi. Hjólaði þangað, 6 km hvora leið, og lenti í þvílíkri rigningu á leiðinni til baka og varð hundblaut (eina ferðina í viðbót). Takaka samanstendur af þremur götum sem eru í þríhyrning og aðalgatan er svona Skólavörðustígur - fullt af litlum búðum með allskonar dóti, skartgripum, listmunum og fleira. Einnig þvílíkt mörg kaffihús miðað við hvað bærinn er lítill - Sem sagt fínn lítill bær.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110835225753794378?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110835225753794378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110835225753794378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110835225753794378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110835225753794378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/nelson-motueka-and-takaka.html' title='Nelson, Motueka and Takaka'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110783087507584004</id><published>2005-02-08T15:35:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-08T15:56:18.546+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Queen Charlotte and Havelock</title><content type='html'>The Queen Charlotte trip was really great. The walk on the first day was really nice especially since it was cloudy so it wasn't as hot as it had been the previous days. Mahana Lodge was just incredible - nice beach, sparkling clear sea and lovely hosts. I spent an entire day on the beach reading, melting in the sun and managed to burn my back pretty badly but the rest of me is fine. The walk from Lochmara lodge to Anakiwa wasn't really that hard but for some reason I got blisters, my knees went all weird and my feet were incredibly sore after that walk. It was only 15 km but I felt like I had been walking for 150 km. Not really sure what happened there. Anyway I got a lift from Picton to Havelock with some people I met on the track so I didn't have to take the bus and went the scenic route - very nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So today I've been feeling really lazy and haven't done much - mostly coz my knee is hurting really bad. But I've been organizing my trip untill the 22nd, booked a flight from Wanaka to Wellington AND I've booked all accomodation untill then and everything. I'm being so organized these days it's unbelievable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Havelock is the 'Mussel capital of the world' and tonight I'm going to, what is said to be, the best mussel restaurant in NZ - so it should be good. The mussels here are huge - the ones we get in Iceland or Europe are tiny compared to these. I'll see if I can get a picture of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110783087507584004?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110783087507584004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110783087507584004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110783087507584004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110783087507584004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/queen-charlotte-and-havelock.html' title='Queen Charlotte and Havelock'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110741132437794273</id><published>2005-02-03T18:59:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-03T19:15:24.376+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Blenheim og Picton</title><content type='html'>Tvær tölvur í röð þar sem ég get breytt lyklaborðinu í íslenskt lyklaborð. Ég bara verð að halda upp á það með því að skrifa á íslensku. Blenheim var frekar glataður bær - fór reyndar í vínsmökkun sem var fínt. &lt;a href="http://www.saintclair.co.nz"&gt;Saint Clair&lt;/a&gt; var með besta vínið og ég er búin að tékka á vefnum hjá ÁTVR og þeir eru ekki með vín frá þeim. En annars var Blenheim bara þvílíkt glataður bær.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ég kom svo til Picton í morgun sem er virkilega fallegur strandbær þar sem aðalmálið er að þaðan fer ferjan yfir til Wellington. Ég er búin að eyða deginum í það að púsla endanlega saman ferðinni sem ég er að fara í og þar sem ég er ekki að gera þetta eins og allir aðrir (auðvitað!) þá var þetta smá vesen en þetta reddaðist allt. Púslið er sem sagt svona: Ég mun labba fyrsta daginn af &lt;a href="http://www.qctrack.co.nz/Map/map.html"&gt;Queen Charlotte gönguferðinni&lt;/a&gt; á morgun (&lt;a href="http://www.qctrack.co.nz/ShipCoveResolution/shipcoveresolution.html"&gt;þetta&lt;/a&gt; og &lt;a href="http://www.qctrack.co.nz/ResolutionEndeavour/resolutionendeavour.html"&gt;þetta&lt;/a&gt;) og gista svo í tvær nætur í &lt;a href="http://www.mahanahomestead.com"&gt;Mahana Homestead Lodge &lt;/a&gt;(sem er við endann á &lt;a href="http://www.qctrack.co.nz/EndeavourCampBay/endeavourcampbay.html"&gt;öðrum degi&lt;/a&gt; gönguferðarinnar en ég fæ far með bát yfir). Þaðan fer ég svo með bát yfir til &lt;a href="http://www.lochmaralodge.co.nz"&gt;Lochmara Lodge&lt;/a&gt; og mun gista þar eina nótt og labba svo &lt;a href="http://www.qctrack.co.nz/ToreaAnakiwa/toreaanakiwa.html"&gt;síðasta hlutan&lt;/a&gt; af gönguleiðinni. Eftir þetta er ekkert plan nema það að ég ætla í Abel Tasman þjóðgarðinn - reddum því síðar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ég vil svo enda á því að óska öllum afmælisbörnum janúar mánaðar innilega til hamingju með afmælið: Einar Mar, Kristján, Birgir Már, Andri, Anna Lilja, Bryndís, Birgir afi og ég. Ég vil líka vekja athygli á því að í gær 2. febrúar var nákvæmlega ár síðan ég hætti að drekka kók! Ég var að spá í að halda upp á þennan merkisdag með því að fá mér kókglas en ég hætti við það og fékk mér spræt og ís í staðinn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110741132437794273?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110741132437794273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110741132437794273' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110741132437794273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110741132437794273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/blenheim-og-picton.html' title='Blenheim og Picton'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110724763417554571</id><published>2005-02-01T21:35:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-02-01T21:47:14.176+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Hanmer springs, Kaikoura og fleira...</title><content type='html'>Fór til &lt;a href="http://www.hanmersprings.co.nz/"&gt;Hanmer Springs&lt;/a&gt; í gær. Þetta er einhvers konar stærri gerð af Landmannalaugum þ.e. það er heit uppspretta sem er notuð til að fylla heitar laugar. Þetta er reyndar mjög flott og heitu pottarnir eru miklu stærri heldur en þeir eru heima. Svo voru nokkrar "steinalaugar" sem voru tengdar saman með fossum þar sem maður gat legið og sólað sig. Svipað eins og í Laugardalslauginni en aftur miklu stærra. Veðrið var frábært og ég lá þarna í 4 klst. í hinum ýmsu laugum og reyndi að fá smá brúnku á mig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Í morgun þá tók ég rútu til Kaikoura sem er frægt fyrir hvalaskoðunarferðir og humar. Ég var búin að ákveða að fara ekki í hvalaskoðunarferð heldur fara á fínan veitingastað og fá mér humar. Þannig að áðan þá dressaði ég mig upp - sem á bakpokaferðalagsmáli þýðir að fara í sturtu og í hreinan stuttermabol - og borðaði þá dýrustu máltíð sem ég hef borðað í Nýja Sjálandi en hún kostaði nú bara samt 2500 kr. íslenskar. Humarinn var grillaður með hvítlauk.. mmmm .. hryllilega gott.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Á morgun ætla ég að fara til Blenheim og þaðan til Picton þar sem ég er búin að púsla saman ferð sem samanstendur af dagsgönguferðum á Queen Charlotte gönguferðinni og að gista á farfuglaheimilum sem eru í víkum í Marlborough sundinu sem er eingöngu hægt að komast að með báti. Ég geri ekki ráð fyrir því að það sé gsm samband en það eru símar á þessum stöðum þannig að ég get uppfyllt hina vikulegu tilkynningaskyldu sem er í gildi ;o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110724763417554571?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110724763417554571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110724763417554571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110724763417554571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110724763417554571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/02/hanmer-springs-kaikoura-og-fleira.html' title='Hanmer springs, Kaikoura og fleira...'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110705013083782898</id><published>2005-01-30T14:11:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-30T15:05:26.040+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Banks Peninsula Track</title><content type='html'>The tramp was fantastic. The first day was the hardest as we went up to 699m (from 200m) (and it was really steep) and then back down to sea level. Getting down was even harder then going up - I was really concerned that my knees would be really bad the next day but they decided to be nice to me and I was fine the next day. We were 11 people walking the track together; Jay, Lyn and Rick from Alaska, Tanya and Tobias from Germany, John, Mick and Joan from UK and Levi and Shay from Israel. Levi and Shay stayed at the same &lt;a href="http://www.bon-accord.co.nz/"&gt;backpackers&lt;/a&gt; as I did in Akaroa the night before the track so I got to know them pretty good and I walked with them most of the track. The huts were just amazing and especially the hut on the third night (see pictures of 'My little hut') - the shower 'hut' there was just incredible. There was also a bath which was heated up by a fire underneath the bath itself.&lt;br /&gt;The track was great - the people were nice and we had a lot of fun playing Piquant (or something like that - kind of like bowls but not really) and badmington (although I just watched and critisized).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then last night I went with Levi and Shay to Le Bons Bay (still on the Banks Peninsula) and stayed at the backpackers there. The owners there cook dinner every night, for which you pay NZ$12, which was wonderful after the trackfood we had been eating for the last four nights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've added &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/new_zealand/"&gt;some pictures from the track&lt;/a&gt; and again I had to delete a few pictures to get these uploaded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110705013083782898?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110705013083782898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110705013083782898' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110705013083782898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110705013083782898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/banks-peninsula-track.html' title='Banks Peninsula Track'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110646293355751089</id><published>2005-01-23T19:33:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-24T15:12:30.213+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Christchurch</title><content type='html'>Christchurch was really nice - there is a &lt;a href="http://www.worldbuskersfestival.com/"&gt;buskers festival&lt;/a&gt; going on which was a lot of fun. I went to it on saturday night although the first half was actually just boring - not funny at all - BUT the second half was fantastic. Really good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also went to the botanical garden and just like in Dunedin I just went mad in the flower pictures (the joys of having a digital camera ;o), went around town in a tram, went up the Christchurch gondola and saw an amazing sunset with a view over the city. I spent one day on the TranzAlpine train to Greymouth and was a little disappointed with that - I didn't think it was as spectacular as everyone has been saying it was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I spent running around getting the last things I needed for my first tramp which will begin on the 25th. It's called &lt;a href="http://www.bankstrack.co.nz/"&gt;Banks peninsula track&lt;/a&gt; and hopefully it will be nice - not to .. hard ... I'm getting a bit lazy. Anyway at the moment I'm in Akaroa and have spent the day sitting around in the sun eating lunch, eating ice cream, getting a bit of a tan. I even was on the beach for an hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've added some &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/new_zealand/"&gt;new pictures&lt;/a&gt; but in order to do that I had to delete the others so.. hope you had a good look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Annad:&lt;br /&gt;Eg verd ekki i gsm sambandi fra midnaetti adfaranott 25. jan til 29. jan (isl timi) tar sem tad er ekki gsm samband tar sem eg verd ad labba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anna Lilja: &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/new_zealand/dscf0147.html"&gt;tetta er myndin&lt;/a&gt; sem eg var ad reyna ad senda ter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110646293355751089?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110646293355751089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110646293355751089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110646293355751089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110646293355751089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/christchurch.html' title='Christchurch'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110611680758037617</id><published>2005-01-20T16:46:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-20T16:47:09.603+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Oamaru and Lake Tekapo</title><content type='html'>From Dunedin I went to &lt;a href="http://www.oamaru.org/"&gt;Oamaru&lt;/a&gt; (o-maru) and spent two nights there so I could go and see the &lt;a href="http://www.penguins.co.nz/"&gt;Blue penguin colony&lt;/a&gt; and the Yellow eyed penguins. The yellow eyed penguins are 50-60 cm tall and are so cute when they're waddling around. They don't like people much and go as far away from the observation areas as they can except the 'showoff' penguin who climbes up on a hill and stands there for a while showing off to the tourists - it was hilarious. The Blue penguins are 20-30 cm tall and are just as cute as the others... walking around and then taking 2-3 minute breaks to have a nap along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Oamaru I took a bus to Lake Tekapo. On the way we 'passed by' &lt;a href="http://www.newzealand.com/travel/destinations/national-parks/aoraki/aoraki.cfm"&gt;Mount Cook&lt;/a&gt; which decided to get rid of the clouds which had been surrounding it the entire day exactly when we went passed the best view point. So I got great pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lake Tekapo was really beautiful it has this really bizare color of light blue - really weird and really beautiful. It also has the clearest air in New Zealand and most nights are clear so it very popular for star gazing.. which I did. I got to see Saturn in a telescope, we even saw the rings coz they were 'face on' - which is a good thing apparently. I also got a really good look at the moon and other stars and nebulas in the telescope. It was fantastic!! Great - really enjoyed it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110611680758037617?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110611680758037617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110611680758037617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110611680758037617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110611680758037617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/oamaru-and-lake-tekapo.html' title='Oamaru and Lake Tekapo'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110574722223201008</id><published>2005-01-15T13:59:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-15T13:00:22.233+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Pictures</title><content type='html'>I've added some pictures - you can view them by clicking &lt;a href="http://public.fotki.com/marybjork/new_zealand/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110574722223201008?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110574722223201008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110574722223201008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110574722223201008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110574722223201008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/pictures.html' title='Pictures'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110567699241377679</id><published>2005-01-14T17:13:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-14T17:38:15.923+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Dunedin</title><content type='html'>Well I'm in sunny &lt;a href="http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/home.html"&gt;Dunedin&lt;/a&gt; at the moment - just arrived a few hours ago. It's so hot I think I'm melting - I had to buy a hat coz my head is burning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shotover jet was a lot of fun - didn't get wet at all. The weird thing was that the driver looked exactly like "sed og heyrt" Fjolnir (btw: you english speaking people have no idea who he is..) - could have been his twin - it was just freaky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On wednesday night I went on &lt;a href="http://www.realjourneys.co.nz/Main/Earnslaw/"&gt;TSS Earnslaw&lt;/a&gt;, a steam ship that has been sailing on Lake Wakatipu since 1912. I got a free voucher to go on it with my flight-seeing trip to Milford so I thought I might as well go - didn't think it would be that interesting. But it was quite nice, she's a lovely looking ship. You could go into the engine room and watch those poor guys shovel coal (1 tonn per hour) into the furnaces - unfortunatly they had their shirts on so it wasn't as interesting as it could have been. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as I find an internet cafe that allows me to use a cd drive I will add some pictures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110567699241377679?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110567699241377679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110567699241377679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110567699241377679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110567699241377679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/dunedin.html' title='Dunedin'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110541812747773778</id><published>2005-01-11T17:17:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-11T17:36:34.490+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Queenstown</title><content type='html'>I'm in Queenstown at the moment and will be here for the next two days. I spent the morning flying to &lt;a href="http://www.newzealand.com/travel/app_templates/behaviors/dsp_bigimagepopup.cfm/file_id/i78080/language_uuid/69B3E9FB-2E57-4EDB-9046-4684AA660A92/pageurl/737B372D-BCD8-304B-0EA8-9AC6558FE027.html"&gt;Milford sound&lt;/a&gt; and going on a scenic cruise on the sound. I flew there in a 8 seat airplane and I got to sit up front with the pilot on the way there.. vei!! It takes about 35 min. to fly there from Queenstown - the weather is absolutely fantastic today, two or three clouds in the sky so we had magnificent views on the flight. Tomorrow I'm going on the &lt;a href="http://www.shotoverjet.co.nz"&gt;Shotover jet&lt;/a&gt; which should be fun and probably very wet. At the moment I'm trying to decide what bus company I should use to travel around and where to go next - it should all be sorted out tonight or tomorrow the latest... I hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110541812747773778?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110541812747773778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110541812747773778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110541812747773778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110541812747773778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/queenstown.html' title='Queenstown'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110504865430851082</id><published>2005-01-07T10:45:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2005-01-07T11:00:03.656+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Loksins... </title><content type='html'>Hvað get ég sagt... Nýja Sjáland er frábært. Raewyn tók á móti mér á flugvellinum og við erum búnar að vera ferðast um bæði Auckland og svo erum við núna fyrir sunnan borgina að ferðast aðeins. Við gistum á farfuglaheimilum sem eru ótrúlega flott - þetta eru bara eins og fínustu gistiheimili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fyrr í vikunni þá fórum við til Waitomo og þar fór ég í "Black Water Rafting". Þar sem Raewyn ætlaði að fara að hjóla (uþb 130 km. aðeins!!) þann daginn þá ákvað ég að fara í tvær mismunandi ferðir. Ég byrjaði á &lt;a href="http://www.waitomo.co.nz/tumutumu.html"&gt;þessari ferð&lt;/a&gt; sem var mjög skemmtileg, mjög blaut og ég er öll út í marblettum á hnjánum eftir hana því við þurftum að skríða á fjórum fótum hluta af leiðinni. Svo flutum við á slöngum eftir göngum og skoðuðum glóorma í loftinu og fleira og fleira. Þetta var virkilega skemmtilegt. SVO fór ég í &lt;a href="http://www.waitomo.co.nz/lostworld.html"&gt;Lost World&lt;/a&gt; ferðina!! Þegar ég sá hvað átti að gera í bæklingnum þá var ég viss um það að þetta væri ekkert mál. Svo kom maður á staðinn og ég hélt ég yrði ekki eldri. Síga 100m beint niður - labba í gegnum þvílíkt stóran helli og svo þurfti ég að klifra upp járnstiga sem stóð 30m beint upp í loftið. Hnén á mér skulfu allan tímann og ég var bara ekki viss um að ég myndi meika það alla leiðina upp. En þetta var allt mjög örrugt - ég var bundin í alls konar reipi og bönd þannig að ekkert hefði gerst þó ég hefði "skolfið út af stiganum". Ef ég kemst í skanner þá skanna ég inn myndirnar sem voru teknar af mér í þessari ferð svo þið getið séð þetta því það er eiginlega ekki hægt að lýsa þessu almennilega. Þetta var GEÐVEIKT!! og ég mæli þvílíkt með þessu :o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110504865430851082?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110504865430851082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110504865430851082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110504865430851082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110504865430851082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2005/01/loksins.html' title='Loksins... '/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110348224366069879</id><published>2004-12-20T07:50:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:50:43.660+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/276/2711/640/verond.3.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/276/2711/320/verond.3.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just testing...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://www.hello.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif' alt='Posted by Hello' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110348224366069879?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110348224366069879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110348224366069879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110348224366069879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110348224366069879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2004/12/just-testing.html' title=''/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026712.post-110313676323400625</id><published>2004-12-16T07:51:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2004-12-16T07:53:51.893+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Finished the setup</title><content type='html'>I've added the comments and I would also like to point out that all time stamps on this website are NZ times... just in case you're wondering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9026712-110313676323400625?l=ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/feeds/110313676323400625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9026712&amp;postID=110313676323400625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110313676323400625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9026712/posts/default/110313676323400625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladymary-in-nz.blogspot.com/2004/12/finished-setup.html' title='Finished the setup'/><author><name>Mary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02053462011528847111</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
