Good evening world!

Try nr. xxxx to pay the woodhills bikepark a visit...
Weather was perfect, no labour days, went to bed (quite) early the night before, got up (quite) early...
But no trains out there on weekends :(
As it's around 40km on way, there's no way to just go there by bike when a full day of bike park is planned.
So I bought a ticket for the ferry over to Devonport and biked all the way to North Head.
Visited Petra during her work on the way and some nice Weisswuerscht mit Brezel :)
Should have been like 50km to go with a lot of little hills to be climbed every where and a lot of wind from the wrong side on my way back to Akl...
So in the end I'm now pretty done ;)

After my first Rugby game on big screen with some explanations about the rules I at least understand the basics of the biggest sport here :)
Every single football/soccer player would be crying with the 1st 2mins....

Tomorrow perhaps a 2nd visit to a cool climbing hall I found with Martin.
http://www.extremeedge.co.nz/
It's really big one with loads of different routes to do.
Was pretty cool last time (although we both didn't do too good)!

MTB trip to Rotorua and napier will have to wait till the 2nd part of my journey here, as it's just not possible to get there without a car. No train at all and buses just incl several tours and for that not very cheap.
So I might just hop on the Overlander train to Wellington on Fr or Sat.
Then some of Wellington trails and by ferry over to Picton.

Looking so forward to get over to the south island, doing Queen Charlotte etc!!!!! :)
Weather is now stable enough that it doesn't rain every single day, so nothing can go wrong :)

so much for the moment...

cheers

Martin and me had to wait quite a while till a car came by in the right direction, to be photographed with the right camera settings

there always a new perspective every now and then... :)

Train station of Akl at night


"let's do some pics by night..."
left the house at 10 pm, returned after "some pics" on 2am ;)

some nice sound...

Hi!

Some 2 days ago I managed it to get the concert of Edward Gains up on Youtube.
It's in 2 parts and almost the whole thing...
Video Quality is really bad I realized, but the sound is quite good indeed. Special thanks to my moble and the chiney I could put it on ;)

Numero 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD_7aYxiqEY
Numero 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2CAegr5GpU

I want to upload the following concert of Nick Oliveri as well, but first have to split the whole thing in nice little parts, which not done yet...

Will announce it here when I finally made it :)

greets

good bye Piha ;)

A local walked up to me and said: "you gotta make some pictures through your sunglasses... some pros told me to do so!" "Ok! I'll check it out..."


Now I gotta get myself some nice polarized glasses that are bigger than the one I have with me!
That saves me the 200$ for the polarize filter I was already thinking about... :)

nothing to say about...
just really like it in b/w

Martin taking photos

Martin & Petra walking along the beach

... and to the right...

view from Lion Rock to the left...

"the back of the lion"

Lion Rock (from the other side its a bit more visible where the name comes from)

Petra is always happy to be in the photo somewhere... ;)

beautiful scenery down there and great weather...
That's how it should be! :)