Vorhof der hoelle

Rotorua

heisst der stinkende Ort

H2S Sulfur in the air. Everywhere we could see hot steam and the lovely smell. Schwefel stinkt nun mal.

Ueber ca 100 km immer wieder heisse Quellen, Geysire, Vulcankrater und only for me hot spas.

Before breakfast half an hour in the hot springs of Rotorua is great.

Wie ihr seht gehts mir grossartig.

nein stimmt nicht mir gings grossartig,but...

this man-my hero left Auckland yesterday and I am alone.

Einigen von Euch hab ich gestern schon die Ohren vollgeheult.

Frau sollt sich auf Reisen nicht verlieben.

Morgen fliege ich nach Tonga, danach 3 Wochen auf die Fiji Insel Vorovoro

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Achtung Buecheraktion:

habe heute fuer 178Dollar Buecher fuer die Kinder des Stammes bzw die Schule gekauft, da ich da vielleicht ein bisschen arbeiten werde.

Der Rest des Geldes  ca 600 Euro wird fuer Buecher fuer die Strassenkinder in Guatemala gespart

Eure Birgit mit Liebeskummer

Seit gestern auf der Nordinsel Neuseelands

 

Heroe saving my life

Ich hab es endlich geschafft, Gestern fuhr ich mein geliebtes Wohnmobil, my Campervan on the ferry to Wellington the Capital of New Zealand. A nice city  with a lot of bays and water. This morning after shopping and a visit in the museum I drove north through the land of mordor. The lord of the rings is very present here on the Islands. Of course, I bought the movies and watch them in the evening.

The ferry drove 2 hours along the Marlborough Sounds and 1,5 over the open sea . As the weather was great and the sea was calm we enjoyed the tour .

I try to learn the weaving with flax. Flax is here a sort of lily with long leaves wich have very strong fibres. The children or better Brittney saw my woven flowers and wanted to learn it. So I had a little workshop in the holidaypark. We had a lot of fun , and all the children went back to their tents with a flaxflower. 

Klasse, sometimes I find strange things on the beach. Don't I look very sportive with this equipment? Someone forgot the canoe here. Marek a hitchhiker from Tschechien made took this nice foto.

Birgit, die jetzt ins Bett muss um endlich den kleinen Hobbit zu lesen, da sie morgen in the Shire faehrt.

still here because it is too beautiful

before I got lost

Here on the South Island are  a lot of mountains and as it is an Island a lot of water around and lots of beaches. Sometimes you are lucky and there is a street to the beach but most of the time there are tracks......and I walk hours and hours. Most of the time I am exhausted.I had some adventures.  I had a cramp in my left leg in the deep cold water in the ocean near Picton. But a friendly hero saved me and brought me safe to the shore. Yesterday I got lost between two beaches in farewell spit in high gorse aeusserst kratzige Angelegenheit. But I was saved again by a friendly guy. On a beach between some rocks I found 9 very dangerous seals, but I was lucky and they were friendly.

robben schlafend

 About the horrible sandflies I wrote in my last post. But now the New Zealand Gouverment hopes that I will not need a hero every day. The problem is:

1. There are not so many heroes left in the world

2. The heroes think 2 savings are enough and they are much more interested in young blond girls than in old spinsters.

So I stay in the swimmingpool or the hot tub.

Eure Birgit after a long and hot walk

Where? on the very famous Abel Tasman treck. I WAS THERE!!!!

after 48 minutes walking

nur noch photos

I really would love to send you 400 fotos, but that's not possible, so, only some of these wunderful landscapes   I am so happy to see every day. I took all the pictures on the South Island in the Southern Alps so between Invercargill and Greymouth.I drove now more than 2000 km with my Campervan. You really should have come with me. Tomorrow I'll go on a 4 hour walk through the bush with Maoris to learn a little about the plants,and the crafts of these people. Maoti live here since 800 years and the white people since 200. These blossoms are on a Manuka tree. You all know teebaumoel. Thats the plant.

hier lebt wirklich nur ein gefaehrliches Tier und das ist the Sandfly. A sandflie? is very small, calm and dangerous-ha ha. The bites ( I know now not stitches) hurt many days and I need a lot of teetreeoil, because I have about 50 STITCHES.This will be a very calm night. 

Here is another one I have to go and kill them

Birgit killing sweet tiny flies and very slowly learning english and the thing with stitches and bites

Naked in New Zealand

Also um es gleich mal zu betonen, ich bin hier nicht nackt unterwegs. Obwohl man sich in so einem Camper manchmal ganz schoen der Oeffentlichkeit ausgeliefert vorkommt, aber die Vorhaenge schliessen so lala. .Aber die armen frisch geschorenen Schafe, es regnet nun, ist kalt und morgen muss ich bei diesem Wetter hoch zum Franz Joseph Gletscher. Einen anderen Weg gibts nicht ausser mit 100erten von km Umweg. Aber da oben erwartet mich ein heisser Pool.

Also mal so unter uns unsportlichen, nicht bergbegeisterten Menschen. Die Seen und Berge sind atemberaubend, aber ich muss da trotzdem nicht hoch. Ok, ich war auf einem Berg. Susanne sagt jetzt spontan:" Da war wohl 'ne Seilbahn" Stimmt! Seilbahn fahren kann ich auch super gut.

Mein Problem ist, dass ich so ueberwaeltigt bin von den vielen schoenen Bildern, dass ich staendig aus dem Bus springe, fotographiere und filme und nicht vorwaerts komme. Heute im Nebelwald war ich richtig gluecklich als die Camera voll war, so bin ich endlich meinem Ziel naeher gekommen. Ich bin jetzt wieder am Meer. Hab aber noch nichts davon gesehen, da es seit Stunden in Stroemen regnet und Birgit keine Regenjacke besitzt. Die Arme! Ich weigere mich eine zu kaufen, da ich schliesslich im Sommer bin und in 3 Wochen in Tonga und Fiji. Da ists zu warm fuer Regenjacken. Ein Mann, der mir den Weg zum Meer erklaert hat sitzt jetzt am Nachbarisch und beobachtet mich- eine Frau allein hier unterwegs, ohne Regenjacke???         Das wird morgen am Gletscher lustig, da trag ich einfach 10 Schichten Sommerkleider und darueber den Pareo, sicher superchic.

Fuer die Vogelfreunde- Da oben wohnt der Kea- der groesste Papagei, der beschlossen hat im Schnee zu leben. Er ist so gesellig, dass er sogar die Autogummis anfrisst, und die Brotzeit der Touries liebt. Ich kauf mal hier noch etwas Obst, das ist gesuender fuer die netten Tiere.

Dieser Tag war mein Glueckstag,

Ein riesiger Seeloewe ganz in der Naehe am Strand, ein Seehund und 2 Yelloweyed Pinguins. Schade gerade hab ich das Foto vom Seeloewen verschusselt

Diese Pflanze ist Flax??? Wieder so eine Umbenennung. Man macht Faeden zum Weben und Streifen zum Flechten  daraus.

Birgit morgen im Winter, aber nur eine Nacht

alles anders und neu

Dear Jingyu and Huiting,

Thank you so much for your sweet letter. I am so sorry that I didn't answer, but the taxi was waiting, I didn't find a paper and a pencil.... Enjoy your last days in Sidney, You are so beautiful and skilled young woman. Don't worry about your future. you deserve the best and you will find wunderful things in this world. I watched how much you changed in this days in Sydney. You are able to react to all the adventures the future will bring. And life is a big adventure and never boring. 

I wish you the best and hope that you, perhaps soon, 

will come to Germany, that I can show you a little bit of Europe.

Big Hugs Birgit 

This is a very curious walleby lady. she came very close and suddenly the baby fell out of the pouch. It always wanted to climb back, but it 

is really rather big, isn't it? They both were very interested in my bag, my hands and the shawl. I nade a little movie, but it is'nt cut

Then I visited a Maori group and they tried to teach us a dance with this balls. a good training for our pupils in the school. There is a book with Maori games, I will try to buy ist somewhere.

In Australia it was hard to to seee how so many of the Aborigines live, and how the white people treat them. Here in New Zealand the Maori where travellers and soon began to sell meat and fruits to the white people and buy clothes.  So they found a good way to live together and there where not the problems of integration. The white people accepted the names. So I drove today through towns with the wonderful names Oamaru, Moreki and Taranui. 

Obwohl der Uluru erst vor 50 Jahren entdeckt wurde  wurde er gleich in Ayers Rock umbenannt.

The Maori now are more interested to keep there old traditions than in the last century. Who does not know the touching movie "Whalerider"

Good night for today

Bridget

Birgit aus dem Camper in Dunedin, schon fast an der Suedspitze near the Fjords and the glaciers

Finaly startet

Hallo Ihr lieben Deutschen Freundinnen und Freunde,

Ich weiss, dass Ihr sicher alle besser Englisch koennt als ich, vielleicht sogar Lehrer seid.

Bitte keine Korrekturen von Tippfehlern, oder aus Unwissenheit falsch geschriebenen Sachen.

Es interessiert mich nicht. Es ist wie es ist.

Ist es fuer jemanden zu Hause nicht ok wenn ich englisch schreibe?? Ich kann auch alles 2 mal schreiben.

Sag Bescheid Big Hugs Birgit

My start

It took a long time to start in New Zealand.

First I had problems with a crown an had to spend the first day of the year with a friendly dentist.

Then I was really afraid, that I would not be able to drive that camper in New New Zealand. But as Adam said my biggest problem is to doubt my abilities.

Ok, today I startet and drove only 140 km. But I felt rather good and stay now on a Campingground in Geraldine south of Christchurch. I read a lot in all the maps an the lonelyplanet and decided to go south round the Island. I want to see all the pinguins, dolphines and other animals here around. I am sorry, but I am really more interested in the seaside than the high mountains. And the South Island is full of Mountains. But I will not miss Mount Cook and the Glaciers

Yesterday after me date with the dentist I visited Maoris and saw a lot of wunderful things.

I  came close to a Walleby and a living Kiwi. But there are no fotos of the Kiwis. You can see them only by night.

Tomorrow I will post some fotos or a small movie. My new friend (the Macbook) can do such things.

Uebrigens meine Skype Adresse ist galah_Birgit ruft mich an, dass ich Eure Adressen habe. Ich kann nur morgens so zwischen 7-9 Uhr ratschen. Bin 12 Std. weiter.

Windige Sommergruesse aus den Sommerferien-noch viel naeher am Suedpol

Eure Birgit