Posts by Chris Waugh
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This was the last active Access thread, so..... I saw this in the Herald and thought it looks good. I wonder if anybody knows any more about it?
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En attendant… well, the bus, sans doute. (I was actually hoping the phone would cooperate and let me get the mountains in the distance…)
He’s got a while to wait.
Gratuitous mountain shot.
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Reforesting mountains reflected
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Not trees, exactly, but the corn's a good 2 metres tall already.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to JacksonP,
Orb.
Magic.
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ETA: This probably needs a trigger alert, sorry. Young woman brutally assaulted after accepting a ride home late at night. Cue the victim blaming. And the racism, too, probably. Still a lot of work to be done.
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Hard News: Auckland's future: Keep calm,…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
For many it is still more convenient to carry cash. So arriving in Auckland with cash and needing local currency and walking up to one of those money changers at the airport is not a good look for Auckland or NZ.
We're still figuring out our particular financial situation, but yes, we should be able to just use an ATM. A former colleague used his Chinese card in small town Egypt. It should be just a simple matter of seeing a Union Pay sticker on the ATM and knowing we can get our money. Still a good idea to have a wad of cash just in case.
People coming to China need to know that not all ATMs will take international cards, even if they have apparently international symbols like Visa on them, so having a wad of cash ready is a really good idea.
Shanghai Pudong or Hongqiao? One is newer than the other. Never been to either, or Shanghai, but if it's anything like Beijing, I can imagine there being very different levels of service between the two. At Beijing Capital, T3 looks like it belongs in Hong Kong or Singapore, T2 looks really provincial, T1 I've never seen, but from what I hear I don't think I want to.
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Hard News: Auckland's future: Keep calm,…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
If you're going to complain about Auckland airport, then surely it should be the money changers at international arrivals and their exorbitant fees that you target? And the smarmy, arrogant looks on their faces as you enquire as to their rates and they inform you as to how much they intend to rip you off? We were fortunate last time in that my parents picked us up at the airport, so we could go to a proper bank. The National Bank branch in Newmarket was superb, and the teller told me they often have people commenting about how much better they are than the awful money changers at the airport.
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Or that he’s foreign. And fat.
And German. Everybody keeps mentioning his nationality for some reason.
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to bob daktari,
Actually, bob, I think the Chinese totally would cooperate with the US over IP and copyright issues. Also, remember Hong Kong is an entirely separate and mostly independent jurisdiction.
