Preparation

Well... here I am sitting at Starbucks on an overcast April afternoon... I worked today when I had the day off, but the way I figure is that the day I just worked pretty much pays for the night in the very cool fancy resort I booked us into for a night in Kota Kinabalu (type Gayana Island Eco Resort into Google)!

It is real funny... I have about 2 weeks left at work and it is REAL hard when all I can think about is how in 27 days at this time, I will be enroute to BORNEO!!! We are starting to get REAL excited but the reality is, in exactly 4 weeks time, we will be half dead, half way up Mt Kinabalu! But hey, that's what our travel insurance is for eh!? I am really looking forward to ditching this whole shiftwork shindig... it is not really my cup of tea, but somehow I have managed the last year or so of doing it!

Edinburgh is still our first major destination in terms of where we are going to live, and we are currently looking for the sharpest deal on Lonely Planet or Rough Guide books about Scotland. I am looking forward to some awesome as "hillwalking" as the locals say!

We have downloaded SKYPE which will help us keep in touch with family and friends around the world and I highly recommend it to you all! Add us - theronbergs - is our login... anyway... enough idle chit-chat... will write more next time I get an idle moment at Starbucks!

C U, Al

We got our Visas this week... that makes life that little bit easier!!! We can now actually go to the UK without fear of coming to grief at Heathrow... It has been a process I can tell you... I can see why Kiwis are soooo well liked as workers in England, cos if the High Commission is anything to go by, we are bound to be nicer people to work with!!! But we got there in the end!!!

Edinburgh is really starting to excite me!!! I watched Trainspotting just to get my head around the accent... and now anything remotely scottish is starting to grab my attention... Ewan MacGregor movies, I am already a Golf Fanatic... bring on the Glenfiddich? Flip, I nearly even went to McDonalds the other day!!! I will never eat Haggis mind you... well... maybe I will give it a wee go!

Oh well... that is all for now... Catch ya again soon!

Well... the wedding has been and gone and it was truly an awesome experience - everyone had such an amazing time... check out the pics http://www.alronberg.com/wedding/...

Anyway... now we are in the process of sorting out visas and stuff like that! Should be a blast!

Catch ya soon!

Well... we went to the travel expo on Sunday and had our sharp little eyes peeled for the best deal on a one-way fare to the UK... we saw many and came across a little $959 doozy on royal brunei http://www.bruneiair.com/. We now get to visit the part of the world where I really wanted to go on our Honeymoon! We are real excited about it all!

We fly out of Auckland on April 30th next year and fly through Brisbane on our way to Brunei. We will spend around a week and a bit checking out Brunei and Sabah and climb Mt Kinabalu, the highest point in South East Asia.

From there we fly to Dubai for a couple of days and then on to Heathrow... We are excited, but a little bit freaked... there is no turning back, we are definitely on our way to the UK!

If anyone you know has been to any of these places, then we would definitely appreciate any pointers etc...