First proper day in Kerikeri today. We arrived yesterday just after lunch, straight from the airport, probably looking and certainly feeling like zombies.
We went straight to see Bill, one of the Estate Agents we'd kept in touch with since our last visit. He took us out to see a rental property that we'd been discussing online. We liked it, so we've "moved in"! It's a "proper" house with two floors, three bedrooms, etc. It's an upside-down house with a big, open-plan, kitchen, living, dining room upstairs surrounded by sliding glass doors that open onto a big deck area with views over the countryside and a very nearby river/waterfall! There are even two dogs living here! :)
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| Living Room and Deck |
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| Kitchen |
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| Deck |
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| View from Deck (inc. Waterfall!) |
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| View from Deck |
All sounds pretty idyllic and, if there wasn't so much stuff for us to be sorting out, we'd probably be just relaxing and soaking up the rays! We can hear the waterfall, hundreds of Cicadas in the trees and the (exotic sounding) call of unfamiliar birds (Pukekos, maybe?). In any case, it's great to already have somewhere to call home and not to have to worry about moving from motel to motel.
It was up around 30 degrees yesterday - another big shock to our systems following the sub-zero temperatures we left you with! More of the same today and "getting better" by the end of the week. It's very humid at the moment because a big tropical cyclone blew through the area over the weekend and dropped 10 inches of rain in a matter of hours.
Top of our list of priorities is sorting out a telephone line (with broadband) so we can stay in touch properly. We have to visit Kerikeri public library and use the free Wi-Fi to send e-Mails and update the blog at the moment!
Hi, I notice your new place has a kitchen - what on earth are you going to do with that? :-)
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