Workaway number 2

Hola everyone,

so I'm at my second workaway now and I'm getting a very free love vibe from them, we had a sort of singing session at lunch and the husband is a very hippe looking chap, so that caught me off guard.

The place is cool, their on a hill and instead of one big house there are many spread out over the property with a little pathway leading between all the places, for example I am currently in the internet shed.. however its a rather cool place and the people are nice, they are German and everyone here, other workaways included, is German, so I am the only one sitting in ignorance when the talk to each other..

in any case the past few days have been good, Steffi and Steve really made me feel at home while i was there, to the point that I would be lying in my bed after a night of movie watching and I would forget that I was in Spain.

Also I have with me 1 piece of a roman roof tile and 1 piece of a broken pot that were found during my stay, so if they make it through customs then perhaps you can see them :)

anyway I think thats enough from me

Chao

Chris 

Spain time

Hola everybody,
I have made it to Spain, with my kidneys in tact, and so far my first workaway is quite stunning.
Steffi and Steve are really nice people and the house is amazing.
The house is a cortio witch is a Spanish farm house but the have turned it into a sort of hotel but the don't do food, i am unsure what you'd call that, however its very nice, the work is hard work and so im feeling it this morning, not that I'm complaining.
I found some roman roof tiles while gardening yesterday also, that was quite exciting. The history in this place is fantastic, makes quite a change to see maori history dating back 100's to European history dating back 1000's of years.
In any case the place I'm staying at the moment is fantastic it is easily twice as old as civilisation in New Zealand witch i think is very cool, and the sunshine doesn't hurt :)
Until next time,
Chris

Nodnol

Hello readers of my blog,
Thursday morning 11:30 I landed at Heathrow airport after a 9 hour flight on witch i managed to get 1 maybe 2 hours sleep, and my first human interaction in this fine country I recieved a bollocing from the woman checking my passport for putting it in my mouth..
Moving on, I managed to last most of the day at Gary's bar an hour or two nap when Gary put a movie on, however i made it out to the pub that night and didn't get back until 1 so i think this is acceptable.

Friday, bright and early, i was up and on the bus heading into London, we arrived at victoria station with a feint smell of smoke a result of my mind exploding at the epicness of this city, I got to my hostel and then went exploring. I saw many things on my travels that then lead me to the british museum where I saw many many more things, prety much everything but the rosetta stone, the one thing that i had been told a HAD to see by Glen, however I couldn't find it and ave up when my camera died.

Saturday, today, I bought my ticket to Paris from Amsterdam, I got the last seat on the train at 8:16 in the morning and headed back to the museum to see this stone of Glens. Now my camera batter had not charged at all durrin the night and i had to charge it via my lap top for the 10 minutes i was getting ready this morning so i had to save the life of it and take minimal pictures, in any case after 2 maybe 3 hours somewhere in the chinese portion of the museum it died, so i had to find a shady corner with a socket and charge my camera. I managed to charge it for a good 15 minutes before security told me i couldn't do that, so i went for a wander.
After maybe another hour of searching I had decided to give up, headed for the door but got lost and found the Rosetta stone.

Vancouver city

Been walking all over Vancouver today, completing as much of glens quest as possible.

Went to Gastown this morning, its quite possibly the coolest place in Vancouver so far, all the road was brick as were the buildings and sidewalk. if i could i would build a brick house and live in Gastown.

i have also completed a little over 1 quarter of the things on my list as it was sunny and the over cast today, didn't rain once, witch was very good. 

Vancouver is an amazing city, however there are far to many bums, they ask me for money "for the bus"

one guy actually said if i had a 5 he had change for me, i'll give you $3.50 change he said, i just need to get on the bus, he said. however, i am no fool, i know that a bus ticket is $2.50, and even if he needed to take the seabus it would still only be $3.50.. silly bum.

in any case that is enough from me, rambling on about bums like that probably dosn't intrest you so i will leave it at that..

grouse park

Good evening readers of my blog.. mum, dad and Glen.. today i write to tell you once again of my days events.
Today i have once again gone up grouse and it was foggy, as per the recent pattern, and i went down a couple of runs.

Now roll on somewhere arround 1, 1:30 the haze of snow cleared up and not only did i see the city i also received some seemingly nonsensical advice from a girl on the ski lift, if you are not falling down you are not learning.

I did some more runs and as i did i thought about her advice, decided it made enough sense, and so felt compelled to try out the wee park on grouse, like jumps and rails and junk, I bailed a couple of times, landed a couple of jumps and learnt a few things all the while..

so i opened a message from glen this morning, basically they are kicking me out for 3 days and i'm going to live in the woods until dinner with the lee family.

Snow

So, I'm sitting on my bed after a half a day of boarding in poor visibility conditions, and I'm looking out the window at the car, witch is covered in snow, because it is snowing.
had i not just gotten out of the shower i may have half a mind to run out there and make snow angels.
in any case i am amazed and very happy that it is snowing down here, as i think it must be snowing like a mother licker up on grouse and so things are looking good.
Also, Glen tells me that one of his and Sue's friends who works on cypress mountain may have a job for me, I'm not too hopeful as it would have to be under the table because of my lack of a visa but in any case, that would be stunning.

nothin' much

sooo... i went up Grouse again today.. nothing new to report other than I have been riding on blue runs now, or rather i have been riding 'a' blue run, as all the others seem to go to the peak so i have not but one run to ride. In any case, I lost my left glove to the bus today so old leftys gonna be a bit cold on the mountain tomorrow.
Glen showed me some pictures of him and dad in S/A and then London.. it is very strange to see him and dad so young, thin, and with a ful head of shoulder length hair.
In any case, i think thats all from me for today..