SKYPE Ahoy!

On my travels I have a magic little eeePC, about the size of a thin library book. Learning to manage a tiny keyboard and juggling data between a 4gb hard drive and a USB flash drive has not been easy. I turned on my tiny PC with wireless internet connection and I heard a voice say "Mea, are you online?" There, in a little window, was John and Fran Hewitt from Hamersley, WA. He had walked past his computer as I had come on line. After exchanging our suprised greetings,courtesy of SKYPE, he said he and Fran would be leaving in a few days to visit New Zealand on the way to England via America and Canada.
Martine picked John and Fran up from their hotel in central Auckland and took us up to the top of Mount Eden, the highest of the extinct volcanoes surrounding Auckland. After driving through other gardens we had afternoon tea at St Heliers, overlooking a beautiful bay with Rangitoto in the centre.
A few days later I received another call from John and Fran in their hotel room in Canada. Fran and her daughter-in- law will celebrate their birthdays in early April in England and then celebrate Jim's retirement before returning home.