When I finished working last Friday, I thought this last week in New Zealand would be very relaxing, after all we had almost everything very well organized, we had only a few last details to sort out, little things yet to buy, pack the bags and leave. Clearly, the practice is quite different from the [...]

Well this week is being really busy I’m just writing a quick update. Last week we’ve got our Indian visas, and Cristina got her Vaccination card from Brazil. Car sold Yes that’s it, after 1.5 year we finally sold it. We bought this car from an Afghan engineer for NZD 2,600.00 it was really tidy [...]

Several things happened in the last few days (weeks?), but my days have been so busy that I haven’t been able to update you with the news, real time. Ok, I confess, the Olympics are taking a lot of my free time! Let me open some parenthesis here and tell you that I’ve been watching [...]

Now that the torture with the passport is over, I can tell you about the new gadgets we bought last week. This is the result of a rainy weekend… shopping! It was the most expensive weekend of the year… but these things were already planned in the budget and it was good to do it [...]

Last Tuesday we sent the paperwork for the Australian visa. Forms, passport photos, credit card to pay AUD 100.00 (ouch!), a copy of our bookings and even a copy of the travel agency’s receipt. I reviewed both forms, each detail and even warned Felipe that some parts of his form were missing. The Australian consulate [...]