Party over, 14 days and counting

Party...
Last night we had our farewell party at the Avebury House. Pretty good turn out, with roughly 70-80 people popping in and out. Highlights of the evening included various examples of good and bad dancing, too much food, a fantastic venue and a good chance to catch up with people we may not see for a while. Huge thanks to those who travelled some distance to make it, i.e Corde from Auckland, Mike from Dunners, Lisa and Andy from the deep south and those we have forgot.

There are a couple of photos from the party.

Plans...
Things are getting pretty exciting (and nerve-racking), with only two weeks until we go. Everything is for sale on trademe.co.nz, and we are slowly whittling our possesions down to the bare essentials.

We have given some more thoughts on what to do in Thailand, we are currently looking at spending the first week in Bangkok, we'll be seeing the sights, doing the tourist things, bartering at the markets and at some stage I'll (Aaron) be getting a business suit tailored. Then for about a week, we are planning on travelling down south to soak up some rays on some islands in and around Krabi. We are looking forward to doing some snorkling, scuba diving, sleeping and of course shopping.

Upon arriving in England, we are getting picked up from the airport by a cousin of mine. From there we will try our luck at a couple of job interviews in the first week, before establishing any further plans.

Well thats it from us, next time we make a posting will be from overseas. Hopefully from Thailand somewhere, to keep you guys all updated. You guys can leave comments on these posts, contact us (Aaron + Carmen) from the links on the right or sign our guestbook.

Farewell to NZ

Plan of Attack

Well word has got out that Aaron and I are off to 'PommyLand', and everyone keeps asking what the plan is... So far, we have one-way tickets to Heathrow airport via Bangkok and that's about it.

The important details:
May 9th 2004 -> leave Chch, NZ for Bangkok, Thailand

2 weeks in Thailand, seeing the sights and winding down after the mad rush to finish both of our Masters degrees (by March 31st)

May 25th 2004 -> arrive in England, find somewhere to live and somewhere to work, probably in London

Of course, the plan is to look for a job before we get there, thru recruitment agencies and the web etc, but in reality, we'll probably only have interviews lined up...

General Information

Welcome to Slowlane.net!!! Good to see you found us...

We're a couple of newly-graced graduates of Mech Eng from New Zealand, off to see the world, have a great time and earn our fortunes (or something like that...).

This site will follow us through our trials and tribulations on our travels through Europe, and maybe beyond. We aim to keep the folk back home, the ones we meet along the way, and anyone else that is interested, up to date on where we've been, what we've seen and what we thought.

Make yourselves at home - have a look about, and sign our guest book. Feel free to add comments to our entries - it is expected, so don't be shy. If you want to be informed about new additions to the site, join our mailing list.

You can also e-mail Aaron or Carmen, for a more personal touch...

Photos and Camera Equipment

As part of any adventure, you want to make sure you remember. To that end we have set up a gallery of photos. Being engineers we like our toys and gismos, hence we have a couple of digital cameras for the trip. We have picked up an Canon IXUS II, which is 3.2 mega pixel. By all accounts a very good camera. So lots and lots of pictures of everything we see, and hopefully lots with us in them.

 

Next we have got hold of the latest (at this time) and greatest consumer digital-SLR. The Canon 300d - Digital Rebel. Along with the kit 18-55mm zoom lens, we have bought, 50mm f1.8 II and 75-300mm USM Image stabilized lens. So we will still use this to take photos of everything we see and even some of us, but they should be more artistic and a good start for a hobby.

Expect picture postcards for Christmas/Birthdays and general hellos'

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