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South Africa & Bangladesh - 2 Projects Very Close to Our Hearts

Since the last few weeks were packed with work and moving around, we decided to take a well-deserved break this week and just relaxed a bit at our current house sit. We are in a festive mood and must have gained a bit of winter flab by preparing delicious home-cooked meals in a decent kitchen. From our living room, we have a picture-perfect view down to the lagoon, loads of good food, two cuddly cats and a glass of gin and tonic in our hand - we feel damn lucky right now and are trying to savor these times before the cherry-picking madness starts next month.

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Our road trip around the North Island

Since Friday we are now in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Here we have a house sit again and take care of two cats and a wonderfully located house. The view over the lagoon to the East Harbour Regional Park is truly awesome! What’s even better is a proper kitchen and a private bathroom - luxury

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From bees and the kiwi flower - working in Te Puke

The famous catchphrase by Roger Murtaugh from Leathal Weapon came more than a couple of times to mind: I’m too old for this shit! This time it's kiwi flowers. What do you do with a kiwi flower? Yeah, we did not know, either. You can not eat them anyway. ;) So here's the story of bees and kiwi flowers:

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Saying goodbye and finding a job

Wow, where should I start? To sum this steaming hot mess of a week up: it was weird. We had planned quite a lot for our last few days in Mangonui, unfortunately, we had to let go most of it because of the steady rain, wild storms and even a small earthquake (it wasn’t that bad;) .

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