Zero miles, it's Christmas Day and we wanted to see whether you can really do Christmas on the beach. We basically had a Lazy Christmas Day sending emails, swimming in the sea, eating green lipped mussels (the local speciality) and doing a fair bit of reading. Tahuna Beach is a pretty good beach, though it looks unlikely to ever get good surf due to sandbanks and shallow waters. But we swam for a while in a mild sea - no clearer than Mablethorpe though. I'm aware that agricultural run off is a significant water quality problem in NZ, there being so many cattle. The picture is of a santa created on Tahuna Beach by a freak snow storm (ho ho).Having been lent the first vol of Steig Larssen's thrillers set in contemporary Sweden, I was unable to resist £2.50 ish for the ebook version from amazon for the second volume. They are racey, fast paced and mostly flim flam. They live amongst ikea furniture and are all very adult in their relationships - people say things that sound like they are out of a manual of emotional self-help. And there's a certain devotion to brand names - people don't buy chairs but a certain expensive brand of chair. Hackers use MacBooks. As if. In reality they are surely more likely to use a self-compiled linux distro of their very own. The whole hacking theme is technically weak. Seems a bit of an ikea self-assembly version of Sweden. A sharper editor would have cut down the book to about two thirds at most of the current length, but the pages turn.Guy has nicked my ebook reader (Larsson would have said kindle) in order to read Katherine Mansfield. Much better though she has a certain pessimism. There's a delightful amount of humour though.As the day progressed the percentage of drunk people has got higher and higher - writing this in the tent now someone was baffled by the lights inside our tent. On a campsite? Hmmm.We enjoyed some of the local 'Old Coach Road' red wine ourselves - though we have simply become sleepy and are heading to bed.
Zero miles, it's Christmas Day and we wanted to see whether you can really do Christmas on the beach. We basically had a Lazy Christmas Day sending emails, swimming in the sea, eating green lipped mussels (the local speciality) and doing a fair bit of reading. Tahuna Beach is a pretty good beach, though it looks unlikely to ever get good surf due to sandbanks and shallow waters. But we swam for a while in a mild sea - no clearer than Mablethorpe though. I'm aware that agricultural run off is a significant water quality problem in NZ, there being so many cattle. The picture is of a santa created on Tahuna Beach by a freak snow storm (ho ho).Having been lent the first vol of Steig Larssen's thrillers set in contemporary Sweden, I was unable to resist £2.50 ish for the ebook version from amazon for the second volume. They are racey, fast paced and mostly flim flam. They live amongst ikea furniture and are all very adult in their relationships - people say things that sound like they are out of a manual of emotional self-help. And there's a certain devotion to brand names - people don't buy chairs but a certain expensive brand of chair. Hackers use MacBooks. As if. In reality they are surely more likely to use a self-compiled linux distro of their very own. The whole hacking theme is technically weak. Seems a bit of an ikea self-assembly version of Sweden. A sharper editor would have cut down the book to about two thirds at most of the current length, but the pages turn.Guy has nicked my ebook reader (Larsson would have said kindle) in order to read Katherine Mansfield. Much better though she has a certain pessimism. There's a delightful amount of humour though.As the day progressed the percentage of drunk people has got higher and higher - writing this in the tent now someone was baffled by the lights inside our tent. On a campsite? Hmmm.We enjoyed some of the local 'Old Coach Road' red wine ourselves - though we have simply become sleepy and are heading to bed.