...and with April came autumn - very strange!!

Greetings my dear friends and family :)

Sooo.... A lot of water have run under the bridge since i wrote you last. Sorry about that :) I have tried to upload some pictures from some of the amazing adventures I have been on. To every picture (that is not self-explanatory) I have writing a short explanation.

The most resent thing that has happened is a visit from the parents. Strange but nice to see them after three months :) After they arrived here on the 26th of march we stayed in Auckland for a couple of days. Once they got enough of the city life we escaped and went first north and then south. We then travelled for app ten days together, ending up down on the south island where I then flew back to Auckland from again. The pictures I have uploaded from this trip is only a small amount of the things we made together, and all in all it was a lovely roadtrip, and nice to speak some danish and see some family again! Mutti und Fatti then travelled the rest of the south island them self, flying out of Christchurch this Tuesday the 13th.

I am now back at work. It finally feels like I am getting into this project - now I just have to get some good results. A bit strange though, this project isn't as straight forwards as I though in the beginning, but much of it is just planning and organising everything so there is no weird mix ups... but it will be just fine!

The summer is beginning to end here. Auckland is still in tropic climate, hence there is still app. 24 degrees every day - even though it season wise should be like October in DK. But it is a very crazy form of autumn - it can be freezing cold in the morning and hot on mid day... It's like they say on Auckland - one day can contain all four seasons of weather.

Since the summer is going on end, many of the people I have been hanging out with are either leaving or going towards the snowfields. Therefore it is easy to long for the danish spring these days! But luckily I have just booked a two week holiday with Inga on the way back to europe. One of her good friends Dad from Germany has a flat on some island outside of Hong Kong that we could borrow for free - Sweet ass!!!! looking very much forward to that :)

Other then that not much is going on. This weekend I am participating in a 48h short film contest, should be fun.

I hope that you are all good and that I here news of all your accomplishments back home soon :)

Hugs and love - M

Besøg fra de gamle!

Visit with the oldies to the Kauri forest in the far north of NZ - the biggest tree we saw had a circumference of 16.8m!!!


Mutti at the eastcoast of the northlands, tramping (the NZ term for hiking!?) with me.


Mutti und Fatti visiting the smelliest lakes possible - all the fumes behind them are sulfuric fumes... the entire places smelled like farts after a very large christmas lunch!


Mutti und Fatti at Kaikura - very windy but bueautiful place. Lot's of seals (one more of those species that has reproduce itself in copious amounts, all due to humans fucking up NZ's very fragile eco system... silly!)

WOMAD 2010 med tyskerne :)

Danish delight on a NZ music and art's festival? Dutch chokolate, english vanilla and danish strawberry icecream.... tasted absolutely horrible! With me in my WOMAD pro-recycling outfit telling people how to do with their trash.


Absolutely amazing decoration of the festival with giant baboo-silk-middleage flags all over the place. Whenever the wind was there they had a sound similar to the small wood-sounds coming from a boat in calm weather. Very cosy :)


Kat (german girl i met on the south island in January), me and John&Maike (german couple travelling with Inga and living here) on WOMAD.


WOMAD's main stage with Calexico on stage!



Inga with the fantastic recycleble WOMAD waterbottle! GO RECYCLING!!!




Inga and me in the little sunburned Toyota on the way to WOMAD.

Great Berrier Island cleaning weekend!

Enviromental cleaning of Great Berrier Island leading to day on the beach after wards - nice :)

Sommer hygge på Collingwood street

Me in our kitchen at collingwood st.

The two neighbour houses at collingwood st

John, Maike, Inga, Shaun and me having a barbe :)

Work at Plant and Food Research!

Back door entrence of Plant and Food Research. The big sign is from the constuction company who is building our new glass house.

Mission Bay Jazz Festival!

Me and the german crew at the biggest Jazz festival in the country - think it had about ten small stages with live music constantly on all... Nice full moon evening :)