cor blimey this car hunting lark is foul. all the contac numbers are mobiles which charge you a dollar just for typing in the number, and no one has answered their phone yet, so we have eaither left messages or else bellowed acurse and put the phone down quick speed before it swallowed any more of our money. we have spent a small fortune on phomne cards and have got nowhere really. we saw the yellow van again and were not so taken with it this time. It was not big enough for geoff basicall, and a little on the tinny side. Also, even if we do find a car, we can’t do anything about it until monday to change ownership and wot not. all in all a pain in the butt, and wot on earth is wrong with the good old bus i would like to know? Oh well, the surch continues. we went to a couple of car markets today, and the one had asian blokes galor who looked rather dodgy, and were trying to palm of wrecks, and the other had nothing there but a couple of delapidated vans. Most disheartening i say. well, of for a sopt more hunting and useless phoning.

Tanya

Mayhaps they had a revamp or something!

WE have seen a couple of vans. One foulf red four weel drive that lookes like a sardine can. One grey turs of a car. Had lots of room and wot not but bot great to drive. The one we liked was a bright yellow advert van owned by and honest looking german! It is quite small, and geoff will have to squach up a little, but we are looking into it!. We rang up the checking people, and they said that all was ok accept for the fact that there was some suspicion about the clock and it might have been turned back at some point! Oh well, it is only 500 quite so we might just go for it anyway. WE could habe around for a while, but really, we might find a better deal, but for the sake of a hundred quide or so, we might as well get going. There is also the pos that there will be no better deal for a while!

Well, enjoy Bali. Have you gone to that small island yet? I bet there are congregationd of touts there!!!!! HiHiHiHihi!

Well, must dash as i am going to watch geoff bargaining for the van!

Tanya

I ma seriously concerned when I read that Tan bases her opinion of a car on whether or not it has a “friendly” face!!!??

Geoff

700 of the best should see me through until i can work out the compicated code numbers i wrote down!!!
We are just heading of to do a spot of phoning. There are many cars a round, and we were speaking to a bloke and he said his friend got one in an afternoon so we might have one by tonight – we’ll see! Most of them are toyota townace’s and look quite foul. Tin boxes with no nice friendly expressions like the Vw. Oh well, well see what we acn find.

Got the nletters from the PO. Most aoppreciated. Dod’s long an dinformative one must have got lost in the post! I will try andphone granny i think, but say thanks for hers amd it was nice to all the news. I could picture it all as if i was there. we4ll, i have my poncho on, and no one is going to lose me as i stick out like a sore thumb – hey hum. off to plow through the rain to a phone booth.

Auckland is ok, but a little on the shabby side after the glossy and sparkling sydney!
Jul – ACb’s is fine. What is your kick against it. A bit of a tourist factory, but it is clean, you get a top sheet, you don’t have to get your kitchen utensils from reception, leaving them with a hefty deposit, and the kitchen is spotless!?! The only gripe i have is the blasted showers are those that you have to keep pressing the button for the water to come on, like you get in swimming pool!!!!

Liv – a cutrse on you i say!
T

Hi,

DVD’S for b’day, but can be giveb early if watching material is needed!

I think granny’s shirt was from vietnam. Glad she is wearingit.

With the cofee, apparently you can freeze it and it keep fresh as apposed to going stale! Actually from laos and caried for many a mile! Hope you like it.

The skirts, if i remember rightly were pettycoats from india which klots of people used as skirts. They served me well but i didn’t think i would need them here. Mama should wear them. They are most comfy, and had a draw string to fit round any waste!

In auckland at kiwi backpackers which is a dump so are going to try jkul’s pet hate the acb tomorrow!

as for my wet suit, it had better be disinfected and cleansed, and no one is allowed to wee in it no matter how tempting!

I think it is in my hanging cubord on the rail near the back as far as i remember, or else on the litle shelf at the top. Good luck on geting in there, and try not to spick yourdelf on the corner of the dressing table!

Cheers
T

PS are looking for cars as we speak – sorting through the dross at the mo.
PPS loosing the passwords – most inconvenient – my account could be empty and in the red for all i know. Why didn’t you back them up you creting!

Cor blimey!!! I’ll have to start charging bed rent. At least a tenner a go which you can pay into my account which should need replensishing aroound about now. By the way, are you actually chevcking that I’m not straying into the red? What with many hidden cameras and looker over shoulderers, I haven’t done much checking myself – none in fact!!

Well off for a refreshing night in the hostel. Will text a phone number from NZ.

love, Tanya