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carkitter
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Castor Bay is a nice area. The East Coast Bays is the best place on the shore to live. It'll be close to the bus routes and about 15 mins via car to Takapuna/Albany or 10 mins to the motorway. 
BTW, on Saturday I went on a day trip to the Coromandel Peninsula. Here are some of the photos:
Main Street Coromandel Town
Hills above Coromandel, looking west across the town to the Hauraki Gulf.
Kuaotunu Beach Reserve
Opito Bay
Street decoration in Whangamata
Waihi Pumphouse - 5 stories high, 106yrs old, found it completely by accident - definitely the highlight of the trip.
Also:
Played mini golf and ate Snapper and Chips dinner in Whitianga.
Had a brief look around Tairua.
Enjoyed the Thames - Coromandel coast road.
Saw the giant L&P bottle in Paeroa.
Visited the art and craft shops in Coromandel town.
Had an awesome day, planning a longer trip soon!
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Muhammad-Oli
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On 2009-12-24 07:53:15, carkitter wrote:
Castor Bay is a nice area. The East Coast Bays is the best place on the shore to live. It'll be close to the bus routes and about 15 mins via car to Takapuna/Albany or 10 mins to the motorway.
We've seen a place in Hillcrest that we think is ok. Is Hillcrest nice? The Castor Bay one we think might be too far away from anything.
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carkitter
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Hillcrest is fine.
It's next to Northcote but not as dodgy. It's a pretty standard area closer to shops, workplaces, schools and motorways.
Castor Bay is an upmarket area as all coastal areas are. It's definitely more remote than Hillcrest, some prefer that/some don't.
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Muhammad-Oli
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Hmm... Not sure if I like the sound of that, but we'll keep looking anyway. Thanks for your advice by the way, it's nice to have somebody I can consult about various places I have no clue about!
How was everybody's Christmas? Mine was fine, we just did the usual family parties and barbecues and my 5 month old nephew was the star of the show. Not a lot for me on the present front but I suppose that goes with getting older... I was just glad to get four days off work!
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carkitter
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Went to Muriwai Beach on Christmas Day afternoon with my girlfriend and then had dinner with friends. I spent Boxing day with two of my sons aged 5 and 4. One of them is into airplanes so I got him a toy plane, specifically a FA-18 Hornet US Airforce jet complete with an array of missiles and two pilot figures. It's about 50cm long so it is mighty impressive; he was so excited when he saw it. The elder one I gave a radio controlled boat and we spent the afternoon down at Waiake Beach playing with it and water pistols. After dinner we went to Western Springs to watch the speedway:
Yesterday we went to Kawakawa and Waiti Bays east of Auckland and finished up at Miranda Hot Springs for a evening swim.
The sea around Auckland is looking especially good ATM and I don't have a boat.  I think it's about time I went for a trip on a ferry to one of the islands in the Hauraki Gulf. I haven't been to Rangitoto or Waiheke Islands for a few years now. 
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yea g
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lol, we also went to speedway, was very busy.
Btw, if you go to Harvey Norman, you can get a rain check for a netbook equivalent to HP Mini 110-1111TU for $288!
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carkitter
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On 2009-12-28 01:34:22, yea g wrote:
lol, we also went to speedway, was very busy.
It certainly was. The racing was great, lots of crashes, good atmosphere, a very enjoyable night. Pity we couldn't stay past 10pm but had to get the kids home. We'll definitely be back again soon though.
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carkitter
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Would anyone be interested in participating in a NZ Tour thread using my V800?
It would be like the W810 World Tour but with the focus on posting pics of the places you regularly visit - home, work school, uni, shops, sports, etc and less on discussion of who gets the phone next. If the thread is successful around NZ perhaps the phone could venture offshore... who knows?
I'd like to start it on Jan 1st and will probably need to send it to Muhammad Oli pretty smartly before he leaves Christchurch, it could then go to yea g and on to anyone else who's interested... whad'ya think? 
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carkitter
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Muhammad-Oli
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On 2009-12-28 03:58:24, carkitter wrote:
Would anyone be interested in participating in a NZ Tour thread using my V800?
It would be like the W810 World Tour but with the focus on posting pics of the places you regularly visit - home, work school, uni, shops, sports, etc and less on discussion of who gets the phone next. If the thread is successful around NZ perhaps the phone could venture offshore... who knows?
I'd like to start it on Jan 1st and will probably need to send it to Muhammad Oli pretty smartly before he leaves Christchurch, it could then go to yea g and on to anyone else who's interested... whad'ya think?
That sounds like a good idea carkitter, but not sure if we'll get many people. Still, it would be interesting anyway.
Hopefully people like soane28, JiSm, K71 and frankthetank get on here and get involved. Then it would work out great I reckon. But if you want to start it and you want me to do it before I leave Christchurch, definitely go for it.
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yea g
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Well, I am going on holiday on the 2nd so it would have to be sent to me after. I don't think NZ post would be able to get it here in time if you sent it today
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carkitter
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I don't want to send it to people who are going on holiday, I think that's where the W810 thread went wrong. People started saying that they could take the phone here and there and we lost track of them. I want people to be at home when the phone comes to them and to photograph some local places. It's about the phone experiencing Esato member's lives not the phone growing a life of it's own.
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goarthur77
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Happy new year, mates! |
adhgklk
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Happy New Year!
... from Dominican Forum/Foro Dominicano! 
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carkitter
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Thanks! Happy New Year to the Caribbean! 
The SE V800 goes on a New Zealand Tour thread has begun.
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Posted: 2009-12-24 07:53
