One Month Homeless And KIA-ORA. [Welcome]

One Month Homeless And KIA-ORA. [Welcome]

It is now one month since we became homeless and the feeling attached to homelessness is in some ways liberating-  I don’t know what those people in Dale Farm had to worry about.??

We arrived in Auckland having had a Qantas delay to be greeted by NZ customs hunk. Redhead spiky and gelled. He asked us how long we would be staying and when told two months he retorted “why are you coming here for 2 months???.  He then added that it would be very expensive and cost us a fortune to live in hotels. I thought we had only been homeless for 4 weeks I could   not believe we had already developed that destitute look.

We stayed in Auckland for 4 nights and when we visited the museum we met a large black man with huge hands. He told us he was a boxer and that he had fought the heavyweight champ of the world Vladameer Chincofff [ may be naff spelling] in 1990 that he lost. His manager then left him and is now the champs’ manager.

Honesty

We were told that in NZ we would see things a bit behind the times this is true but there were three examples of honsty that impressed us.

1-       Phone shop directed us to a competitor as they offered a better all over NZ reception for the internet.

2-        Went into a pub and asked for special local beers and barmaid told us where to go, not -  where to go !!!! but directed us to a pub that sold special beers.

3-        When we asked the lady at the car hire place if we would get a better deal elsewhere she directed us to another car hire place.

Fitting in country style.

We have only been in the country for 6 days and Maria has swapped her top of the range handbag for a canvas ruck sack. She had a short period of adjustment as the ruck sack has many zips and compartments. I have a small compartment   in it where I keep my personal possessions.  Maria wears it with confidence and  is pleased that it leaves her hands free to do other things. The outdoor look that she has still has that Maria panache and style about it.  Pictures to follow

Maria’s little notes

The Island is beautiful sub-tropical  and the people are very friendly .I intend to eat mussels and fish all the way round with the odd little lamb thrown in . 

The Maori art and jewellery is very different and the Auckland Art gallery & Museum really interesting .The people we have met get our sense of humour so that’s a relief when you are travelling with Davina .

The driving is bliss no traffic only 4 million in habitants total and we have 7 million in London.