Sweet As Aotearoa
The Kiwis have a saying.
And they can't stop saying it.
"Sweet as"
"Sweet as Bro'"
They literally can't get enough of this phrase. Even more ubiquitous than the 'Stralian "No worries" or "Awesome", it's pretty bizarre.
Anyway, New Zealand is big country. Travelling around on the Stray Bus you look out the window and see green, green, green. Get off the beaten track and you're into Geothermal pools and rivers on the North Island. Every night we seem to stay on the side of extinct or sometimes active volcanoes.
New Zealand is also in Tsunami country and sitting right atop a major faultine, Wellington is supposedly due a big one definitely in the next 95 years. Where did they come up with that number from? That's like saying it will definitely rain sometime in the future.
Accommodation has been mostly cool (apart from AN INCIDENT) and the activities that Stray organise are sweet. I'll update you on what I've thrown myself out of in seperate posts.
New Zealand is all about the extremes though. Push the envelope etc. They're not big on the social commentary here despite incidents like The Rainbow Warrior and Nuclear testing in the Pacific but if they're talking politics that's pretty much what interests them most.
Still, it's not hard to fathom the reasons for this.
Head to Cathedral Cove at Hahei Beach on the North Island and you soon forget about the rest of the world.
And they can't stop saying it.
"Sweet as"
"Sweet as Bro'"
They literally can't get enough of this phrase. Even more ubiquitous than the 'Stralian "No worries" or "Awesome", it's pretty bizarre.
Anyway, New Zealand is big country. Travelling around on the Stray Bus you look out the window and see green, green, green. Get off the beaten track and you're into Geothermal pools and rivers on the North Island. Every night we seem to stay on the side of extinct or sometimes active volcanoes.
New Zealand is also in Tsunami country and sitting right atop a major faultine, Wellington is supposedly due a big one definitely in the next 95 years. Where did they come up with that number from? That's like saying it will definitely rain sometime in the future.
Accommodation has been mostly cool (apart from AN INCIDENT) and the activities that Stray organise are sweet. I'll update you on what I've thrown myself out of in seperate posts.
New Zealand is all about the extremes though. Push the envelope etc. They're not big on the social commentary here despite incidents like The Rainbow Warrior and Nuclear testing in the Pacific but if they're talking politics that's pretty much what interests them most.
Still, it's not hard to fathom the reasons for this.
Head to Cathedral Cove at Hahei Beach on the North Island and you soon forget about the rest of the world.
posted by Christophe at 10:14 p.m.
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