Selection of Paula's email travel tales

07/01/03 ...OZ
...Anyhows a fitting end to the night occured when five or six Kiwis did the Haka, a Maori new zealand tribal dance for us - think of the All Blacks Haka before a rugby match - due to Carolines persistence. Myself, Caroline and Rachel in turn then performed a small Irish jig for them, which, after they recovered from their small seizures and potential heart-threating laughter fits and picked themselves up from the ground where they had fallen, informed us was the most pathetic dance they had ever seen .... "

07/01/03 ...OZ
..."We had a impromptu party in the house on St. Stephans night after the pub - all got a bit out of hand! There was a huge waterfight which resulted in most of the carpet being pretty damaged, people were drinking from eggcups and oil burners, Caroline spent quite some time trapped in a broken rosebush and being literally sat upon and after been dragged around the house on a tricycle, I ended up being drenched with a big bucket of water. "

07/01/03 ...OZ
..."Well let me assure you that I get no pleasure in informing you all that it is 37degrees here and I have had to spend most of the day inside due to the intense heat...oh the trials...."

04/11/02...New Zealand
... "Myself and CAroline are in Franz Josef at the moment - a small little village in the South Island beside two mad glaciers and loads of snow capped mountains - really beautiful scenery. WE have had a fairly active week as well - we went kayaking on the Tasman sea - really beautiful and then trekked through a gorgeous national park. We also climbed a glacier yesterday which was pretty mad. The most insane thing we did though has got to be skydiving. Yes I actually jumped out of a plane. We did it just above the fox glacier which is right beside Mount Cook - New Zealands highest mountain 12,000 ft. It was the most mental thing I think I have ever done in my life. Suprisingly I wasn't actually nervous at all except when I actually found myself out of the plane - every natural instinct in your body is screaming at you to get back inside the plane. It is the most crazy feeling being in the air. Actually perferred skydiving bit to the parachute bit as that was really slow and kept thinking I was just going to fall. Mad and scary, really glad I did it but don't think i will be the skydiving queen of the century....now there's a shock"...

17/11/02...New Zealand
..."we went for an overnight trip up to Kiakoura, a fabulous coastline village where you can swim with dolphins or go whale watching. We had planned to go whale watching on a 7am trip but the night before we lit a fire on the beach, drank copious amounts of wine and consequently slept in! Aw well we just took in the scenic views instead before hitching a lift back to Christchurch"...

17/11/02 ...OZ
..."Kinda half settled in accomodation as well (will explain the half at a later date - smelly man with disgusting phelmy cough sitting beside me so wanna get outta here) so if any of youse feel so inclined to put pen to paper in the hope of scripting a marvellous manuscript all for little olde me"