Very OverDue Travel Friend Update: This is Anna. She's in a few pics along with moniek, martin and various others through my Nz leg of my trip home.
Whats the story behind me meeting anna? Well, it goes something like this. I rocked up in a small town called paihia in far northern NZ. A resort town, you could call it. a summer beach town. Thats when you actually get summer in NZ. I'd checked into my room, only the top bunk left.. started talking too this 6foot 8 tall english/welsh guy and he told me the room was full of germans.. Skipping ahead.. I ended up meeting the right people in this very small town and suddenly I was away for 2 days partying. Ok, I met a girl.. but thats awhole another story. When I returned to my room, the english lad had left and I started talking to this dutch girl. Thinking everyone else must be german.
I was standing at the door way, when I saw this little blonde woman, making her way to our door from outside. I clicked the door to locked. As it was a glass sliding door. She looked up at me puzzled like, put her key in the door and unlocked it. I then straight away, locked it again.. yawned and kept talking to my dutch friend. This went on 2-3 more times, so I open the door and looked her up and down and said, argh so you must be german then! She look at me in shock, "How did you know?" she stammered! I used a old line, I could tell by the way you walked! This lead into a 20min discussion on how germans walked.. in the end she realized I was taking the piss out of her.. and it was just a fluke, that she had been german. Because all the germans in the room from 2 days ago had moved out.. She had only checked into day. The Poor girl, we became friends of sort, and ended up travelling together for some time. Great companion, with anna making sure all my bags were packed and when we moved on too the next place, moniek had all our tours, sights and things to see preplanned, how could I go wrong? It was all good for me!
Funny thing though, anna ended up meeting this rafting guide in NZ, It got fairly seriously quickly and before I knew it she ended up spending the last couple of months with him. She returned home to germany, for a couple of months. Then fly back to NZ to be with her kiwi rafting guide.. I wish them the best, have not heard from her in awhile.. But what ever shes up tooo, its most likely good fun..
All the best anna and thanks for many a laugh, drink and adventures!
*Cheers*!