Sunday 16 September 2007

SNELLS BEACH (NZ)

This entry is just updating you on some photos we took last weekend. We finally got ourselves a big car which is eating petrol like mad but it doesn't matter, we are independent again. It broke down the second day we got it, luckily it was only a pipe broken and we thought the radiator needed repairing.
Only $20 needed on the repair, Petra smashed the laptop a few days after arguing it was left unattended laying on the floor while Phil blamed her drunkenness. Well, whoever is right, its broken anyway.
Luckily we found a way to connect to Chris's Computer, not the fasted but we cant really complain (snobby travellers!!).
We made a trip to Snells Beach last weekend, which was wicked meeting up with Marco and Denise again watching Sheep World and getting an idea of their life on a little farm. What would we give changing our lifestyle at the moment?
Unluckily we got a house party coming up this weekend, guess we have to attend for that!
Otherwise we are saving up our pennies (sorry cents, while the poms are getting beaten to shit) and we are the happy tickets holders of the Muse concert in November. Yeah, some band are actually making the effort to come over here!
This sheep is still alive, its just in a really relaxed position, apparently so.
That's Petra having her red colour back and nearly got into trouble at work. Well who knew that New Zealand is even more conservative then England?
And if yo think that this entry was really random then I wonder if you have anything more interesting to talk about!

Monday 10 September 2007

EARTHQUAKE IN PERU

Do you remember our entry about Pisco in Peru? You can imagine how shocked we were hearing about the disaster there just a few weeks ago.


A massive earthquake struck southern Peru about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of the capital, Lima, in the early evening on August 15, decimating several towns near the Pacific coast. The quake, which registered 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed 513 people, injured 1,100, and left as many as 100,000 homeless. Hardest hit were Pisco, Ica and Chincha, the largest towns immediately south of Lima.

Apparently not a safe place at all to visit at the moment. The civil defence are having to send armed guards with the supplies as trucks are being raided. It is becoming fairly hostile in the south now due to the level of desperation of local people, also hundreds of prisoners escaped from a prison nearby.

Well, we are glad we saw it in peaceful times and hope it will get back to it fairly soon.