Saturday, May 17, 2008

Back to New Zealand and Bondi Beach

After getting back to Sydney I decided to investigate the possibility of returning to do some more exploring in New Zealand. After numerous google searches and flight searching I wasnt really having any success with my situation and decided to go to Trailfinders and see if they could do anything for me. i set off on tuesday morning hoping that I would be able to do something about it. With my wonderful sense of direction- and a map- I made it to trailfinders and while I was there decided to book my bridge climb and a trip to the Blue Mountains. Unfortunately the lady told me that I had to go to Qantas to reroute my ticket and about an hour later after a trip to the atm and forever waiting for my tickets I was on my way to Qantas. I cannot tell you the amount of times that i was stopped by people from different organisations but it was a lot. Eventually I stopped to talk to one guy but it turned out i was of no use whatsoever to these people because I wasnt over 21, I did not live in Australia and I didnt have a job- all the necessities!! It did help when i was stopped from them on though because I had a reason to keep on walking.

I eventually made it to Qantas and asked the man if he could help me in anyway. I said I wanted to go back to New Zealand and he said "New Zealand... either you didnt do the bungee jump or you met someone there." I told him I had successfully done the bungy jump and later on-about 45 minutes later-when my ticket was sorted he said "now if he doesnt treat you right then you can email this address and Ill get you back no problem!" what a nice gentleman.. if only he knew that there wasnt any guy!!

So 2 hours later I was successful and was returning to New Zealand. I was excited and so pelased that it worked out well. To celebrate I was off to Bondi Beach.Although by this stage I was completely exhausted from walking around trying to get help and waiting for tickets to be printed I just wanted to go back to bed. But I persevered and hopped on another train and a bus to get to bondi beach. The sun was shining like usual and I had a loevly lunch in front of the beach followed by a very bried walk before heading for my long journey home. Although I didnt do very mcuh in Bondi I can say I have been there and it was very pretty! i will go back one day and do the walks that people gave out to me for not doing..but Im not the walking person as a Lot of you know.. Although I am improving on the situation!

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