{"id":33,"date":"2009-11-25T21:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-01-01T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:12:32","slug":"wed-25-nov-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Wed 25 Nov 09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back over to Raumati South this morning, after visiting the hole in the wall, to take over the house so we can move in tomorrow morning. I was cursing my UK bank for not letting me get cash out two days in a row, when I realised that it must be a 24 hr period between withdrawals and I&#8217;d tried 10 mins too early &#8211; doh!<\/p>\n<p>An old hand at the rental inspection now, it was over in half an hour with every crack, paint spill and bad mark noted and recorded&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Hurrah, it&#8217;s ours and we have the keys!!<\/p>\n<p>After a bit more local shopping at Coastlands &#8211; little did we know that it is the 5th largest &#8220;&#8221;mall&#8221;&#8221; shopping centre in New Zealand! Cool, we thought we&#8217;d be going to Porirua down the coast for the bigger shops. We even found the cinema, just a pool to go now (although that&#8217;ll have to wait until my operation wound heals up in the next few week &#8211; those stitches really should have lasted longer <img src='https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/tango-smileys-extended\/tango\/frown.png' alt='Frown' title='Frown' class='tse-smiley' height='16' width='16' \/> &#8230;&#8230;..).<\/p>\n<p>We got back to the Wellington hotel very tired little bears. Louise suggested a chinese takeaway, I thought that was a great idea. How wrong could I have been!! There may be every sort of Eastern hemisphere restaurant\/takeaway within 8 blocks of the hotel, but after 90 mins trudging the streets I can wholeheartedly stipulate that it doesn&#8217;t include a basic chinese takeaway!!! DOH!! I settled for an Indian takeaway around the corner from the hotel &#8211; settled, eventually!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back over to Raumati South this morning, after visiting the hole in the wall, to take over the house so we can move in tomorrow morning. I was cursing my UK bank for not letting me get cash out two days in a row, when I realised that it must be a 24 hr period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emigrating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bagendbabe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}