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
tirsdag den 13. april 2010
mandag den 12. april 2010
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 :)
Chinese New Year!
Maike, Inga and me enjoying summer in Auckland - the asian overpopulated city, hence the big celebration of the chinese new year!
onsdag den 24. februar 2010
News from Auckland - now with crutches!?!
Hello my dear friends and family :)
I have by now been living in Auckland for three weeks. It is over a month since I wrote you last, and so much has happened in my life during that time. Not to make it completely boring and very long I will only tell you bits and pieces from my long journey.
To start off – I am completely in love with this country! There is so amazingly beautiful, people are so friendly and there are so many wonderful and fantastic outdoor things to do – just my thing!!!
The eleven day tramp I told you about earlier on my blog was so much fun! It was a bit of a mixed crowd, but people where heaps of fun and our guide made sure we went to some out of the way places. Especially a girl (Caitlin) and I got on really well. She is with me on the first picture in “Pictures from hiking in the south!“ jumping outside Christchurch after the tramp (hmm, and apparently also on the 5, oops). I am hoping to visit her in Melbourne on the way home.
The pictures uploaded on the 28 of January are showing the following: (From the bottom) two pictures from the day where we kayaked in Milford Sound, their biggest and most spectacular national park here. When we arrived in the morning the water was completely still (very rare!) and there was seals playing everywhere in the water. The mountains are humongous and they are all carved out from the last ice age where all of it was covered in glacier. Therefore the sea is equally deep, fantastic to swim in!!
The next two pictures are from a tramp we had in Doubtful Sounds – very LOTR (Lord of the…) landscape. In the new pictures I have uploaded today as “Pictures from hiking in the south!” the fourth one of them is also from this hike. It was so beautiful – If I could have it in my backyard, I wouldn’t complain.
The last picture uploaded on the 28th is from the day where Caitlin and I rented bikes going on the old miner’s rail trail – app. 50k going through a classic Lucky Luke landscape. Thirty degrees and dust – the only thing missing was these bushes that are just blown across the dessert by the wind… a very wild and remote area.
The last two pictures from down south is just of our hiking group during a sunset one day out in the bush and a classical beech forest here in NZ!
Generally the trip was a success – I had little time, and like this I got to go many places and see a lot of the south before I had to leave for the north again. But I already know by now that I am not done with the south of NZ, I want more already!
Now I am back in Auckland. Started working, and it hasn’t been easy getting into it again. People are so nice at work and the project seems very interesting. Only one glib – the guy who has worked on it before me has not been in lab much before, and I think I have to redo many of his things…
The newest news is that it turns out that my landlord is a complete asshole. Don’t want to waste your time on why, just believe me – he is a dick!!!! Luckily I speak very well with the neighbor house and they had an opening in their house in two weeks – can honestly not wait to get out of here… it has a bad vibe to it! Just to give an extra bad feel to it, I stepped on a sewing needle outside the house the other day… long story short, they spend three days digging around for it on the hospital, me ending up in full anesthesia and now with crutches and app. 10 stitches on my heel. I am now the proud owner of war scars :) Only two more days to go and I should be back on my feet again.
One minus about Auckland is that the musical scene is lacking a bit here since many small, new upcoming bands haven’t got the money to come all the way out here. Hence it is either big international, local Kiwi (on occasion also other bands from Oceania) or the like bands. I am spending much of my time with Inga, a German girl that is living in my new flat – and we try to go to concerts/live gigs/music as often as possible. Nice to have a fellow companion also in the need for music :) Next up is the big festival WOMAD where we got some environmental jobs working for the ticket and the week after we are going to see the Swell Season. Nice!
The pictures uploaded today as “Auckland pictures” show the following: (from the bottom) My current house – all six look the same going down in a form of valley with a big garden connecting it all. The view from my road with Aucklands skyline at nighttime. Me on a boat on the way to Devonport with my bad foot. Me and Eva (a girl from uni in DK that just came by for three days to visit – she was in the neighborhood – that being on Tasmania 400k from here) enjoying the harbour in Auckland. Last but not least, me on pier Z here in Auckland.
I hope that you are all good and that life is treating you well :)
Hugs and kisses,
Maja
I have by now been living in Auckland for three weeks. It is over a month since I wrote you last, and so much has happened in my life during that time. Not to make it completely boring and very long I will only tell you bits and pieces from my long journey.
To start off – I am completely in love with this country! There is so amazingly beautiful, people are so friendly and there are so many wonderful and fantastic outdoor things to do – just my thing!!!
The eleven day tramp I told you about earlier on my blog was so much fun! It was a bit of a mixed crowd, but people where heaps of fun and our guide made sure we went to some out of the way places. Especially a girl (Caitlin) and I got on really well. She is with me on the first picture in “Pictures from hiking in the south!“ jumping outside Christchurch after the tramp (hmm, and apparently also on the 5, oops). I am hoping to visit her in Melbourne on the way home.
The pictures uploaded on the 28 of January are showing the following: (From the bottom) two pictures from the day where we kayaked in Milford Sound, their biggest and most spectacular national park here. When we arrived in the morning the water was completely still (very rare!) and there was seals playing everywhere in the water. The mountains are humongous and they are all carved out from the last ice age where all of it was covered in glacier. Therefore the sea is equally deep, fantastic to swim in!!
The next two pictures are from a tramp we had in Doubtful Sounds – very LOTR (Lord of the…) landscape. In the new pictures I have uploaded today as “Pictures from hiking in the south!” the fourth one of them is also from this hike. It was so beautiful – If I could have it in my backyard, I wouldn’t complain.
The last picture uploaded on the 28th is from the day where Caitlin and I rented bikes going on the old miner’s rail trail – app. 50k going through a classic Lucky Luke landscape. Thirty degrees and dust – the only thing missing was these bushes that are just blown across the dessert by the wind… a very wild and remote area.
The last two pictures from down south is just of our hiking group during a sunset one day out in the bush and a classical beech forest here in NZ!
Generally the trip was a success – I had little time, and like this I got to go many places and see a lot of the south before I had to leave for the north again. But I already know by now that I am not done with the south of NZ, I want more already!
Now I am back in Auckland. Started working, and it hasn’t been easy getting into it again. People are so nice at work and the project seems very interesting. Only one glib – the guy who has worked on it before me has not been in lab much before, and I think I have to redo many of his things…
The newest news is that it turns out that my landlord is a complete asshole. Don’t want to waste your time on why, just believe me – he is a dick!!!! Luckily I speak very well with the neighbor house and they had an opening in their house in two weeks – can honestly not wait to get out of here… it has a bad vibe to it! Just to give an extra bad feel to it, I stepped on a sewing needle outside the house the other day… long story short, they spend three days digging around for it on the hospital, me ending up in full anesthesia and now with crutches and app. 10 stitches on my heel. I am now the proud owner of war scars :) Only two more days to go and I should be back on my feet again.
One minus about Auckland is that the musical scene is lacking a bit here since many small, new upcoming bands haven’t got the money to come all the way out here. Hence it is either big international, local Kiwi (on occasion also other bands from Oceania) or the like bands. I am spending much of my time with Inga, a German girl that is living in my new flat – and we try to go to concerts/live gigs/music as often as possible. Nice to have a fellow companion also in the need for music :) Next up is the big festival WOMAD where we got some environmental jobs working for the ticket and the week after we are going to see the Swell Season. Nice!
The pictures uploaded today as “Auckland pictures” show the following: (from the bottom) My current house – all six look the same going down in a form of valley with a big garden connecting it all. The view from my road with Aucklands skyline at nighttime. Me on a boat on the way to Devonport with my bad foot. Me and Eva (a girl from uni in DK that just came by for three days to visit – she was in the neighborhood – that being on Tasmania 400k from here) enjoying the harbour in Auckland. Last but not least, me on pier Z here in Auckland.
I hope that you are all good and that life is treating you well :)
Hugs and kisses,
Maja
tirsdag den 23. februar 2010
torsdag den 28. januar 2010
lørdag den 23. januar 2010
Moutain climbing!
Since I wrote last, I have climbed a mountain just opposite to Mt Cook. Elad (and isralean guy I am travelling with at the moment) and I rented a car from Wanaga and drove there. The pictures are of the road to Mt Cook (absolutely amazing landscape), Elad on the way up the mountain and me on the top. We stayed there for a night in a isolated hut with app. 10 other people that had climbed the mountain that day also. There was no heat but the a wonderful sunset over the mountains. I know pictures cant capture landscapes, but it was beautiful.
I am now in Queenstown – after delivering the car back, hitchhiking here and sleeping for app 12 hours – I discovered a very touristy city! This is the place you go if you want to get drunk, are app. 20 years, want to do wild things and get crazy… not personally my cup of tea… at least not like this! But luckily they have an amazing park where I have been hiding ever since with my book high up in a three. Nice to have some time alone!
Tomorrow I am heading out to a 11 day treck through the Routeburn trek, Milford and Doubtful Sounds, Steward Island and then to Christchurch. Not back before the 3th of feb. Really looking forward to it, but it is many days with a lot of new faces – I am traveling with 11 unknown people…. But as of tomorrow they will no longer be :)
I hope you are all good! Talk to you soon :)
XX
maja
mandag den 18. januar 2010
picture comments!?
I can't figure out how to do picture comments directly under the picture, they are therefore placed as comments to the blog! hope that makes sence...
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