Finding Bars and Buying Cars

I suppose its all in the title really! Since we landed we have not stopped. Nicola's  start date was looming since we landed so we had to get our arses in gear from the get go.
We are moving in our house in a week or two which we are very excited about, but will spare the details for now.
 Lets just say that, if you do come for a stay with us, you won't be disappointed ;)

We went to Mount Eden which is only down the road, for a drink and chatted to lots of people, from the gay Irish bartender who told us where to score some good weed, to the young woman in the quaint little park who told us where to catch the best Pokemon.
Which, Nicola and I decided, was something that would be absolutely necessary in our lives at this point.
I mean come on, who wouldn't want to ramble through a Triassic-period nature reserve to find a Pikachu in a waterfall FFS. ( MUM, that's short for Friday-Friday-Saturday)

We joined the AA of NZ with the foresight that we might need some assistance when buying a £500 car to traverse the Land that Time Forgot.  The girl on the line at the AA call centre, Christine, was so flipping nice we wanted to adopt her.
We explained we had only been in New Zealand for a couple of days and that we were either interested in buying a Motorbike or a car, and she was all like , "Oh! how Nice! well can I just say welcome to New Zealand! how are you finding it, I hope you are happy!"

Last time I phoned customer service in England, I had an angry Glaswegian man on the end of the line threatening to terminate the call cos i was stressing him out. 
and the worst thing was, i was truly sorry that i was causing him stress the poor bastard.

We have done lots more exploring if the surrounding areas and found things we are interested in from cool book shops;

to hiking trails, to Belgian beer bars, to virtual reality centres full of hi definition HTC vive Setups. by the way James, guess what tracklist they had playing. New Retro Wave on Youtube im not even  joking ^^ MAGIC,

 ; to climbing gyms, to retro furniture shops, to nature reserves, to climbing gyms, ad nauseum (for you) :D


Anyways, yesterday, just exploring we happened upon (you'll hear me saying that a lot; you happen upon lots of things on the other side of the world) this industrial unit. With a bar in it. I thought of Blackjack brewery in Manchester, and wasn't far wrong. 

The guy was barefoot, wandering around his little apothecary workshop with a paper under his arm listening to the rugby on the radio.
I said "what the crack here mate?"

"We're an off-licence that lets you try all the beer first" he says.

We're an off licence
 That lets you try

 all the beer first he says. 

"I made this one myself" he says," Its a bit weird.
 The hops get you fucked before you even nearly pissed" he says.

Im listening.

He says, take one of these bottles, choose which beer you want, Ill fill up your bottle, and when you've finished it, wash it out and bring it back, and choose another one and ill fill your bottle up again. Saves glass.

I think to myself... I do like to help the environment......

 and this one is made with the leaves of the plants in the garden on the porch. which we tasted some of them. lime leaves, and its seemed legit, so...

.

For the most part, its been hard to wipe the smiles off our faces. 

We found out about the classic and muscle car fair , which is held once a month around the corner from us so we set out alarms nice and early.
 Check out some of these beauties! 



Its called caffeine and classics. And I have to say, as far as early morning entertainment goes, it beats Richard and Judy hands down.

"Thats the power of love!!!!!

 

This is the one i want...

 

Then after the show, we had to get to grips wth reality. We had to go and buy a car for ourselves in real life.

Armed with a budget that most families spend on sky tv channels in a  month we headed over to "Ellerslie car fair" to barter with the best. 

Part time fruit-n-veg salesmen selling cars they know nothing about and telling you they're only selling  because they have to pay for a new kidney for their adopted daughter, otherwise they would hold onto that precious valuable pile of shit forever..... 

and stood there, toying with the fact that  you woulndt want to buy this car even for a joke, even having won the lottery,   was to say the least,  

a bit Wonkey.

but guess what. 

we landed a Bobby dazzler!!! and we love the tits off it!!!!

Its got everything your car's got, but smells of rich mahogany. It has electric windows, electric mirrors, CD player, a smooth ride, good MPG, cup holders, rapid air conditioning. we love it! and we didn't even have enough money for it! this couple said, this is what they said... "well, we like you so... take the car, and when you save up the rest.... just send it to us."
They said, "we've had nice things happen to us and we believe in paying it forward...".


So there you go.
that was a nice day!
Our Nic was going to proof read this but shes fast a-Bo-Bo's. so night folks , hope youre all well and cant wait to see and hear from you all! god bless. x