{"id":3787,"date":"2011-03-25T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T02:45:57","slug":"in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?p=3787","title":{"rendered":"In other news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Various spots in South Africa] Wow, the big adventure came to an end when we touched down in Durban after a ridiculous number of hours from Christchurch.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s been good to catch up with family and friends while we\u2019ve been in SA (all over SA&#8230; Joburg, Durbs and Cape Town).&nbsp;&nbsp;Must say it\u2019s been hard to be in one place for so long and we have definitely been having travel withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3792\" title=\"SAM_7655\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7655-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7655-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7655-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7655-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7655.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The big news is that although our big trip is finished, we will shortly be starting a new one.&nbsp;<strong>We are moving to New Zealand!<\/strong> We absolutely loved what we saw there when we visited. Found a fantastic company to work for that has offered me a job.&nbsp;&nbsp;The interesting bit is that it\u2019s in Christchurch. The earthquake hit about a week after we arrived in SA, but fortunately the office is still standing, and it has not deterred us. So we will be off at the end of this month to start a new life in Kiwi land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"SAM_7671\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7671-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<p>We have been spending a lot of time sorting and organising things while we are here in SA. Sims been to the UK and back already to pack up all our bits and ship them to NZ. Thanks J&amp;S for storing all our stuff. We\u2019ve also been organising police clearance certificates and a bunch of other bits and pieces that have accumulated since we were last here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3794\" title=\"SAM_7769\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7769-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7769-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7769-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7769-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SAM_7769.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve even managed to get a spot of DIY in and finally painted the last room in my mom\u2019s house (I started the first room when she moved in 7 years ago) and got rid of a lot of paperwork that was cluttering up my mom\u2019s cupboards (there was files and files of it). Whew, we have been quite busy.<\/p>\n<p>We are both excited and nervous to be moving to NZ, but can\u2019t wait. Bring it on !<\/p>\n<div>[Pictures: Birthday cake for Sim and his brother in DBN, A visit to Stainbank Castle with Sim&#8217;s folks and, Sim and me up on Lions Head &#8211; Cape Town]<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 400px; width: 100%;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Various spots in South Africa] Wow, the big adventure came to an end when we touched down in Durban after a ridiculous number of hours from Christchurch.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s been good to catch up with family and friends while we\u2019ve been in SA (all over SA&#8230; Joburg, Durbs and Cape Town).&nbsp;&nbsp;Must say it\u2019s been hard to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderlust.simid.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}