the plankmeister's interweblet
Saturday, June 1, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Wake up, and the room is pitch black still. Don't know what the time is. My watch is on the floor and I'm on the top bunk. Hmmm. Oh well. Back to sleep, then. My efforts at renewed slumber are thwarted by...
Sunday, June 2, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Wake up at 10am. Bright and early! Make porridge. Eat porridge. Brush teeth, tongue and piercing. Rinse mouth with salt water. Go to the barbers. They are shut. Poo! My hair is a comical mess balanced atop...
Monday, June 3, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Wake up. Eat porridge. Brush teeth, tongue & piercing. Rinse mouth with salt water. Read book. Have a kip. Go to get haircut. They're shut. Arse. Eat soup. Brush teeth, tongue & piercing. Rinse mouth with...
Tuesday, June 4, 2002
Rotorua : New Zealand
Wake up later than planned. Shit. It's past checkout time. Hope I don't get charged! Pack bags, (ensuring I leave toothbrush and toothpaste in food bag) and check out (Didn't get a late fee. Phew!). Leave...
Wednesday, June 5, 2002
Rotorua : New Zealand
Woke up later than anticipated. With a sore head. Uuuuuugggghhh... Too much beer. Make and eat porridge. Brush teeth, tongue and piercing. Rinse mouth with salt water. Jump in the car and convey myself to...
Thursday, June 6, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
The bloke is still doing this: COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. COUGH. He goes to the loo. One of the girls in the room...
Friday, June 7, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Get up at 7am ready for the skydive. It's not on until 11am. Poo! Back to bed. Wake at 11am and get ferried to the skydive centre. When we get there, I inquire about doing the AFF course. Eeeeeeexcellent....
Saturday, June 8, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
The Lancaster bomber is still taxiing through the room, so I just cut my losses and get out of bed. Excitedly jump in the car and drive to the airport. Excitedly park in the skydiving company's car park....
Sunday, June 9, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Woke up. Checked weather. Overcast low cloud and raining. Won't be jumping today, either :( Go back to bed until 2pm. Go to the pub with Rich and watch the Tyson vs. Lewis fight. Lewis owned Tyson... Kick...
Monday, June 10, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Woke up late. Had fish and chips for breakfast/lunch. Wandered round for a bit. Went to the cinema to watch Spiderman. Kick ass film! Met Seb in the cinema. Afterwards, we went up to the bar and drank lots of...
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Rotorua : New Zealand
Woke up quite early. Checked out of the hostel. Brendan and Adam had their car broken into overnight, but the police were in the right place at the right time and caught the guy. Woohoo! Lastnight, Charlie...
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Rotorua : New Zealand
Today, we all went Luging. Well... unfortunately, Brendan doesn't have enough wonga, so he had to miss out, which is a damn shame. Allow me to explain. Luging, is where you sit in a three wheeled cart,...
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Wake up and check out. Get all the gossip from Seb and Martin about the night before. Seb got lucky with one of the girls who went with them to the strip club. Maria... Norwegian girl. He had many a...
Friday, June 14, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Woke up. Pissing with rain. So much that I can't see further than about 50 metres out of the window. *SIGH*. Back to sleep for a while. Wake up again. Still pissing with rain. Have a KFC. Still pissing with...
Saturday, June 15, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Wake up early and check weather for skydive suitability. Raining profusely. Go back to bed, sighing loudly. Wake much later and wander round town for a while, then go to the cinema to watch Ice Age again....
Sunday, June 16, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Get woken by the Norwegian girls leaving early for their sky dive. The weather is good... blue skies and no wind. Woohoo! I'm going skydiving today! I quickly dress and drive to the airport. However, when I...
Monday, June 17, 2002
Taupo : New Zealand
Woke up. Booked my flight home. Then booked my flight from Auckland to Sydney. ARGH! Then had to change my flight home again. I have to stopover in Singapore for one night now. ARGH! I'm on the reserved list...
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Seb and I bumped into Adam and Brendon again in the morning. However, Seb and I were just about to jump in the car and head northwards to Auckland. So we did. Looooooong journey. Pretty uneventful. Except...
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Paihia : New Zealand
Woke up before I went to bed, licked road clean wit' tongue and had us Dad slice us in two wit' bread knife. Hahaha. We all had good fun in the kitchen after breakfast by jumping onto a big pile of...
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Paihia : New Zealand
Woke up LATE. It's still absolutely pissing down rain. We go to the pub up the road and play Shuffleboard and drink beer. We stay there nearly until closing. I go home early feeling extremely ill, and leave...
Friday, June 21, 2002
Paihia : New Zealand
Woke up early and was filled in by Rich and Seb on lastnight's happenings after I came home. I missed a lot. The highlights of which were: Seb climbing a ten foot wall and leaping into a small tree, which...
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
We are all up early to check out, and pack the car, and all have much fun reminiscing about yesterday's terror adventure. We load up Bugger and all climb in to begin a hopefully much less eventful journey...
Sunday, June 23, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Wake up. Check out of the Worst Hostel In The World and move to one of the best hostels in the world... ACB in Auckland. Luckily, Seb and I manage to get a couple of dorm beds. Phew! We go to Victoria...
Monday, June 24, 2002
Auckland : New Zealand
Wake up. Seb is checking out. He's off to visit a family friend on Waiheke Island off the coast of Auckland. Can't be bad! Walk down to the ferry to say bye to Seb. Absolutely top bloke. He's restored my...
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Sydney : Australia
Wake up. Eat porridge. Check out. Get the bus to the airport. Check in. Board flight. Inflight movie is Shallow Hal. Buncha poo. Land in Sydney. Get train to CBD. Check in to hostel for one night. Go and get...
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Sydney : Australia
Wake up early. Check out and catch train to airport. Discover that the Singapore Airlines reservations office is useless at its job. I queue for the better part of an hour to check in to my flight, and it...
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Poole : England
However... trying to sleep on a flight is not one of my strengths. And the fact that Mr. "I've just been to market... Can't you see the pig under each arm?" is sat next to me means he is using half my...