Catching up- Pottering round Auckland

​Over the weekend with Vaness I had managed to get in touch with Martin, a Kiwi who had worked back home with my uncle Dave way back, 30 years ago. They were kind enough to invite me to stay at their place in Mt Eden while I found my feet, I was relieved to be out of out of a hostel, financially more than anything and it gave me a really comfortable base to be able to carry on looking for work. Martin mentioned fairly early on that he was going to be driving down to Christchurch in a couple of weeks to volunteer as part of the crew running a mountain bike race from Christchurch to Queenstown and I should give them a shout to see if they had anymore spaces, so I did and they did. With a deadline set for a free ride south for what sounded like a pretty awesome trip I spent the next week or so trying to line up a job to come back to. I met some awesome people and really cool companies, most of whom were willing to meet me for a chat if nothing else to find out more about what I was looking for.

Christian a mate from last winter put me in touch with Eleri a rad welsh girl, whose been over in NZ for a while now. She was keen to show me what Auckland had on it's doorstep! We met up and escaped the city for a couple of surfs up at Muriwai and Orewa. Mid job hunt, a couple of sunset paddles kept things cruisey. Surfing wise something might click if I manage to put some more time in soon. Tar Eleri!

I managed to spend some time drawing too.