We’re visiting old friends Grant and Reta in New Zealand. I used to work with Grant at Radio Television HongKong many years back.
Reta is a consultant anaesthetist and Grant is a communications advisor with Fish and Game New Zealand. They have a lovely big house in the Bay of Plenty town of Tauranga.
Their son Joe is just home from Vancouver, Canada where he’s been working as a skydiving instructor.
The Dysons are a very musical family so the evenings have been spent with Joe on guitar and Reta on ukulele bashing out lots of songs. The other fun (curse!) has been Singstar, a PlayStation singing game. Reta is an expert and beats everyone.
We’ve walked around Mount Manganui and wandered around the town.
Yesterday Jan and I drove to Rotorua, the lakeside town famous for its hot springs, geysers and bubbling mud pools. We spent some time at the town museum, a fabulous timbered building which used to be the spa resort hub. Then we wandered around Te Puia which has some great geysers and mud pools. It is “home of the world famous Pohutu geyser”.
We also found a terrific shop selling NZ greenstone products and bought a piece of raw greenstone for sister Viv to turn into jewellery.
Such a great visit from you two xx