bay of islands

got into the bay of islands at about midday. it's a lovely place. not qwuite as beautiful as i expected, but still pretty nevertheless. went exploring. photographed the sunset and some waterfalls. very arty-farty. back at the hostel, lots of noise coming from my room. 3 crazy europeans. a spaniard, an italian and a fin. offerred me a beer from their stash-how could i refuse? listened to some crazy finnish death metal rock-interesting- and then went out for a bite to eat with them. they all worked for vodaphone or nokia and were doing phony type things over here.

walked round all of paihia, fin didn't want seafood (we're on a beach) and italian didn't want pizza (it's rubbish if it's not italian) and the spainiard was easy (unattractive bloke unfortunately). we eventually settled for pizza at the pace next to our hostel (just like women buying shoes-see earlier post). we had a game of pool whilst chef was making pizza. one of the longest games i've played. we were all embarrasingly rubbish, but i eventually cleared the last few balls and won the game for the spainiard and i.

pizza took over an hour to come. the barman kept coming over to us and apologising in scottish-which the europeans didn't really understand-so i translated. they were getting understandabley irate, and i was just drinking more beer, i find it helps to keep me calm and chilled. the pizzas came, they were okay-the italian not impressed. barman cameover. i ordered another beer. he brought it over. i drank it. we left the bar. still haden't paid for the beers. well, the pizzas did take over a hout to come!

enough blogging for now. i still haven't caught up, but am going out tonight with a kathy whom i met in taupo. be good, will blog later xx