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Monday April 26th 2004

NEW ZEALAND

We have gotten a great house here in Tauranga, just by Mount Maunganui. (see pictures here) This is by the main beach here and it was always our Baddi's goal to get something like this by or close to the beach. We however never expected anything as this. The house is on 3 floors with an elevator. It is fully furnished so we only had to move. The school arranged a schedule for the first days, including a walk around Mt. Maungaui where we got the story of when and how Maoris came to the Island and a welcome lunch at the school. Still we are here only at a tourist visa for 3 months but we hope to arrange that in the next few weeks. I can only say that this place is like a dream to me. Things can not possible be better than they are and who knows, I might even stay longer here than planned.

Monday April 26th 2004

THE REST OF THE TRIP

Finally I give my self some time to write about the rest of the trip down to New Zealand. Last time I wrote we where going to see some of Hollywood and surroundings with a Palli, a friend of mine in LA. We went to see the incredible houses in the hills. Manu of them had only very small part of them on ground but the rest on some stilks. úffff. Of course we also went to Beverly Hills, up to the Hollywood sign and looking at the hand & footprints. In the evening we flew to Fiji, more that 11 hours flight, but where lucky enough to sleep most of the way. First 2 days we stayed in Nadi, one of the bigger towns there. we lived as kings on a good hotel, getting served by the waiters with Pinacoladas into the swimming pool. Of course we caught a storm during our stay but that is very usual for us. On second day we went to Beachcomber, a small island about 25 minutes sailing from the main island. It was of course a great stay where almost nothing was done during our 4 days there. I though went para-sailing and did some mini golf. I tried snorkeling but found it rather difficult to get used to breathing with my mouth.

Finally we are here in New Zealand after 3 weeks of travel. This trip has been so great that it can not be replaced for anything. We have now completed half of our mission to travel around the world. The second part will be done next year trough Australia and Asia, but the locations and way of traveling has not been decided yet.

Monday April 1st 2004

FIJI HERE WE COME

Finally we are on our way to Fiji. We have been looking around LA and Vegas for the past days. I will write better about it later as the time is not much. We are now on the way to look at Hollywood as our flight does not leave until late tonight. There are allot of pictures at Baddis homepage I will link to it here as there is not time to make my own now. I will promise to do it when I get down to New Zealand. Until then have fun. I know that we will.

Thursday April 1st 2004

CITY OF ANGELS - LOS ANGELES

We are in Los Angeles at the moment. We had some problems as our travel arrangements failed. We had to give up a fake address to get into USA again and when we landed in LA we had no idea what to do. However things always brighten up and a friend of mine Einar, which is a fan of Fylkir my soccer team also, fixed us up with a hotel and showed us some bars. We are now going to rent a car and will drive trough the desert to Las Vegas where we will spend 3 nights looking around. We will then come back to LA on Saturday as Einar is going to have a barbeque for us along with some other people. More later

Tuesday march 30th 2004

SEAMAN'S JOB

Following is a link to a video that Baddi made during our lobster fishing It was amazing that we did not get sea sick during this trip as it was a rough ride. See video

Tuesday march 30th 2004

CANADA

Our stay in Canada has been great so far. We have been staying at Baddi's sister, Thora and her husband, Jón Thor. We have been relaxing in a way and have gotten great food during our stay. Among others we went to Yarmouth's discotheque and it was different from many other places. I dressed up with a great leather hat which usually would not fit into any discotheque but it seemed to fit very well into the fashion there. The newest cloths fashion is at liest not an high issue. The highlight of our trip here in Canada has without no doubt been our fishing trip. We went yesterday out to catch lobster, and then I mean gigantic lobsters. It was a great experience which I would not have wanted to miss. We took part in all the process on board, preparing the lobster for selling and putting the bate in the traps. You can see this on the pictures I have added into my picture site. I would like to thank the 3 brothers on the boat, Adrian, John and Jeremy for allowing us to participate in this great tour. It will never be forgotten. Of course we cooked some of the lobster during the evening alive and the pleasure of eating it was much greater as we did the whole process our selves.

Now we are leaving for Halifax where we will spend half of the night as we will be flying away to Toronto and LA very early in the morning. We do not know if we get some internet connection there but we will try to update the site a.s.a.p.

Sunday march 28th 2004

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Finally we managed to update our home pages. We have been a b it lost in the world be course of this 110 volt system. Therefore we have not been able to work in our computers.

Anyway, the first part of our trip is finished and it was a great experience. New York City has changed very much after 9/11 attacks. Security is enormous and e.g. are 2 helicopters in the air watching out for Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty. We sailed out to see The Statue and I think that we have never had such a great security before, not even at airports. Everything was scanned and we almost had to strip for the guards. Of course that was not a great problem as my guard was a beautiful young girl. uuuhhaaaaaa. Also in the bigger stores in NY you are search before you enter.

We walked a lot in those 3 days we stayed in NY. Of course we saw a lot of interesting buildings and among other things we looked at was Ground Zero. It came as a surprise to us the method of building those sky towers. When the steel frame has been erected the make timber forms around them and insitu cast with concrete. After that they insitu cast the walls with concrete. We have not yet found out why they do this but if anyone knows, please write it here under comments.

In many ways we have been noticed on several places in the city that never sleeps as we have been taking pictures of us on know places in sweaters in bright colors and logos of our soccer teams in Iceland. Of course my sweater looks much better that the yellow one.

For the rest of our stay in NY we refer to our pictures at my picture site.

Monday March 22nd 2004

AROUND THE WORLD IN 365 DAYS

Finally we me and Baddi are about to start our world tour. We will take the train tomorrow at 7 am to reach Kastrup airport in time to catch the plane to New York at 12.05. This will be the first stop of many in our almost 1 year long trip around the world. The flight will last 8 hrs and 45 mins. We will try to update our home pages as often as possible during our trip. both with writing and pictures.

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