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    • WinchyW
      Winchy
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      Great stuff Hemi; BJJ in TW jeans! Are the Gracie's fans of heavyweight denim….?

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      • HemiH
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        Day 6:

        Some normal photos for Giles!

        My good friend Jonny has returned from Auckland for a holiday. He's studying dance and has a knack for destroying jeans. Here we are holding the World Tour jeans next to Jonny's original TW pair.

        World Tour jeans and Jonny's original TW jeans.

        Jonny's 3Sixteen SL and ST jeans Front.

        Jonny's 3Sixteen SL and ST jeans Back.

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        • Down under guyD
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          Cool pic's of your part of the tour Hemi.

          Cheers for the updates.

          Peace

          Have a safe 2021 IH Peeps.

          Peace

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          • HemiH
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            Day 7:

            On my way home I stopped by my good friends lowbrow art gallery, Eyeball Kicks.

            Eyeball Kicks.

            Eyeballs.

            Owners and all-round good fullas Calvin and Monique.

            They always have cool posters…

            … and framed art

            "Pania of the Reef" - This Maori legend tells how Pania left the sea people to marry Karitoki, a chieftain whose whare (house) was sited in an area now known as Sturm's Gully on Napier's Bluff Hill.

            After Karitoki departed to fight in a long tribal war, Pania's original family called to her at sunset and at dawn. Unable to resist their siren voices, she swam out to meet them. When she tried to return to the shore, she was drawn down to the caverns of the sea. Angered by her divided loyalties, Moana-nui-a-kiwa, lord of the sea, transformed her into a rocky shelf now known as "Pania's Reef" which lies just off the Napier breakwater.

            Cuba Street back in the day - The Bucket Fountain, bumper cars and drunks… the fountain and the drunks are still here!

            Looking back at the northwest end of the city on my way home… can you believe its the middle of winter?

            The Carter Fountain on Oriental Parade. The fountain was a gift to the city from local resident Hugh Carter in 1973. Carter was inspired by a fountain he saw in Geneva in the early 1960s. He slipped and drowned just days after the fountain was officially opened.

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            • madmondayM
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              great tour updates hemi.

              head high, middle finger higher

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              • HemiH
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                Day 8:

                Heading out with my little diva and cool guy for a quick bite to eat before the Rugby starts on TV.

                Our favourite local Chinese Takeaway.

                I always tease people who take photos of their food… so I've lost a little respect for myself today.

                Super 15 Game - Canterbury Crusaders v Queensland Reds.

                Rugby is a religion in New Zealand… and Dan Carter is God or at the very least Jesus!

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                • GilesG
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                  @Hemi:

                  I always tease people who take photos of their food… so I've lost a little respect for myself today.

                  Agree.  When I was last in Singapore, James said to me one evening when everyone was taking photos of their food, "People used to say Grace, now they just take photos"

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • ArabitA
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                    I noticed you eat a lot of dim sum. Respect. +1

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                    • SeulS
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                      Dim sum good eaten.

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                      • Down under guyD
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                        Im going to the local Yum Cha today, ummmm Im hungry now. Go the Crusaders alright, what a game.

                        Peace

                        Have a safe 2021 IH Peeps.

                        Peace

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                        • HemiH
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                          Day 9:

                          What a day! We've had some small earthquakes during the weekend and the largest (6.5) struck this afternoon. The house felt like it was floating on a river so we're all pretty freaked out and still a little on edge.

                          On a brighter note, we spent the day walking around the Mt Crawford Prison situated on the Miramar peninsula just above where we live.

                          The Prison was built in 1927 and closed in 2012… people mostly walk their dogs here now.

                          My uncle worked at the prison in the 1980's so I use to hang out here in the weekends.

                          Four convicted murderers were hanged here, the last in 1935.

                          I don't know why they left the security cameras behind?

                          Prison mailboxes.

                          Looking northeast at Somes/Matiu and Mokopuna Islands. There is a very sad story of Kim Lee, a 56 year old Chinese man thought to have leprosy being sent to live in a cave on Mokopuna Island. He died in 1904, three months after arriving. Apparently, the Health Department paid the local lighthouse keeper to supply him with food. On fine days he'd row out with supplies and in rough weather he sent rice, hot soup and fruit on a flying fox.

                          Looking east at Eastbourne on the other side of Miramar. This is the entrace to the Wellington Harbour so there are old military forts and gun turretts along the coast originally built in the late 1880's in fear of a Russian attack and during WWII to hold off a Japanese invasion.

                          Looking southeast over Seatoun… that's a rich area!

                          Looking south over Miramar and Lyall Bay.

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                          • d00dD
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                            @Hemi:

                            What a day! We've had some small earthquakes during the weekend and the largest (6.5) struck this afternoon. The house felt like it was floating on a river so we're all pretty freaked out and still a little on edge.

                            Hope everythings calmed down and you're all feeling more settled now! Never experienced anything like this and I can imagine it must be pretty disconcerting.

                            Thanks for the awesome updates Hemi and all the previous contributors! I've just been through the whole tour with a cup of coffee and have really enjoyed seeing so many different settings, learning some of the history of those places and of course, seeing the ongoing evolution of the new TW jeans!

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                            • HemiH
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                              Hey d00d,

                              They say we could get another 9 earthquakes during the week with the biggest shakes most likely to occur in next 24 hours.  We've packed our emergency gear and will sleep in our clothes in case we have to leave quickly… unfortunately, we also live in a high Tsunami risk area.

                              Good work going through the entire thread... even I haven't done that!

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                              • SeulS
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                                Damn Hemi - stay safe lad!..

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                                • D
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                                  Stay safe hemi and nz

                                  Cheers,
                                  David

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                                  • d00dD
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                                    @Hemi:

                                    They say we could get another 9 earthquakes during the week with the biggest shakes most likely to occur in next 24 hours.

                                    Damn! Well, as everyone else has said, stay safe sir! Hope your weather forecasters are as crap as ours in the UK and you get 9 quakes less than predicted!

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                                    • RedStripeR
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                                      very cool updates Hemi, really enjoying them.
                                      Hope you all stay safe.

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                                      • HemiH
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                                        Day 10:

                                        Thanks guy's, we're all safe and sound at the moment.

                                        I went to work this morning to make sure everything was ok then came straight back home to be with my family. It was like a ghost town in the city and there is no serious damage but everyone is a bit jumpy. Wellington sits right on top of some major fault lines and we are due for a big earthquake which I hope never comes… I now have some small appreciation of what my good friend Ande Whall and the rest of the people of Christchurch are going through.

                                        We went to the park on Oriental Bay Beach tonight just to get out of the house.

                                        St Gerard's Monastery overlooking Oriental Bay since 1932… I'm tempted to go up there to have a word with the big man?

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                                        • Down under guyD
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                                          Yeah Hemi, stay safe bro. You and the fam, been watching the news and reading
                                          the paper.

                                          Peace

                                          Have a safe 2021 IH Peeps.

                                          Peace

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                                          • Finn666F
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                                            wonderful updates there hemi…you're really a guy who knows how to do a leg in a worldtour!
                                            great family you have there as well...thanks for sharing this along with us buddy!

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