ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find
wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing

is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......


Thursday, 30 January 2014

Street food

Wednesday evening, bleary eyed because we'd just arrived and had little sleep, we turned left out of the hotel. Ignoring the invitation to 'see a show', and the (genuine) Thai massage parlour we stopped at a ramshackle street café where both the kitchen and the tables were on the pavement and the sound of karaoke came from somewhere inside. The menu was unintelligible but at last we had fried rice with chicken, shrimp and basil and chili sauce, and 2 beers.
By last night we were old hands. We sat in a street café on the edge of Lumphini Park and ate noodles with chicken, fried rice with crispy pork and a side dish of spinach and other green vegetables. We also had beer and water. We bought roti with banana at a street stall to finish. The cost? The equivalent of £6 for us both.


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