Nice, restful day, today. Got up late and Celia went off to work and Hugh took us for a very pleasant drive around the immediate locale. We drove to Whitford and on to Botany. The real purpose of the trip had started out to be just a trip to the chemist, as Val is still suffering with a bad cold and sore throat, coupled with lots of coughing and sneezing. Amazing how a little trip can become a day out!
Botany has a shopping centre that is a real treat. Built to look like a village. Very effective. The architect was very clever and built in lots of village-like features with streets and squares and different designs for shops. Really good and really interesting.
We then had a drive through Howick. This is possibly the oldest village in New Zealand. It was built to home the Fencibles. There were about 250 Fencibles in Howick. 'Fencible' is derived from the word 'Defencible', meaning capable of defence. A fort originally stood at this place but that has long gone.
As we were only popping out to the chemist I didn’t take my camera: so, no photos! A pity because we then drove on to visit the marina at Bucklands Beach (I think – this may change after Hugh reads this). We then went to the other side of the peninsular to Eastern Beach. This whole area is what we have been looking over from Celia and Hugh’s house when we look to the West towards Auckland City Centre. The whole area is full of houses. When we consider the amount of land we have seen with no houses at all, it is quite a change to drive through such a highly developed area. And these houses are not cheap. Not small, either. Prime real estate.
We eventually made our way back home and had a spot of lunch, then crashed out for a while. I decided to spend some time looking at the photos I have taken but after quite some time I hadn’t got very far. Started with the Dubai photos and had a bit of a clear up. Then decided it would be “a good thing” to upload some photos to my Drop Box. This is a free service provided by https://www.dropbox.com/home#/
Gives 2 or 3GB of free web storage. I had played around with it before setting off on this great adventure with the express purpose of posting photos but somehow never got around to it until now. Been just too busy having a good time. Anyhow, I have finally got around to posting some photos from the first day we had in Dubai. If you want to have a look at them I think you need to have Dropbox installed on your PC and have an active Dropbox account. Not actually sure if that is necessary but it is quite handy to have a Dropbox account as you can upload your own photos to easily share with friends and family. If you have any bother getting sorted out let me know and I will send you an invitation which makes it a bit easier to see my Dubai photos. If this proves a success I’ll upload some more. Just let me know. Off to bed now.
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