148: No Mobile, No Photos
NZ is beautiful but also quite a few years behind in particular as far as technology is concerned.
First of all to those who try to contact me on my mobile I should point out that network coverage has been very poor on the South Island. It got considerably worse since I reached Southland (the very south of the South Island) as there is virtually no network coverage unless I am in the vicinity of a descent sized town (which does not happen too often especially if I sleep in the car).
Second there will probably be no more photo updates on flickr for a while.
I tried to upload photos from my Dunedin to Invercargill trip but failed.
Computers down here are too ancient to cope with anything other than email and I have no access to computers that support fast USB2 either. The last descent internet place was in Dunedin but further south is virtually no access to modern PCs. I don’t expect to find anything descent on my way up the west coast (maybe Queenstown but then I expected INvercargill to have descent Internet Cafes) so I reckon the next photo update won’t happen for a few weeks until I get back to Christchurch or to the North Island (Wellington)
I am seriously thinking of buying a cheap Laptop now as these pathetic computers down here are pissing me off and I just end up wasting lots of money in the internet cafes trying to use them despite their age (which means more waiting rather then using)! Grrrrrr&@$^%@$
Talking of further New Zealand travels, plans are currently rather volatile as weather is a bit unpredictable at the moment. It is getting close to winter down here and if weather turns really bad I might skip the rest of New Zealand and fly over to Australia. If weather remains acceptable then I could easily be in New Zealand for another month as it’s absolutely wonderful down here (apart from the struggle with computers;-).
Tags: RTW 2005/2006
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