Its been a difficult and tiring 13 days..Firstly the car being late didnt help matters, then having to organise times and places for the vehicle to be taken from the port to a designated area so that bio security could check the MG for animal and plant life..also customs work independantly from that department so i had to coordinate that check too and that used up another day and i had already lost 8 days with the shipment being late and because it arrived late on friday it had to stay on the wharfe until monday.And all this time i am in a backpackers waiting..actually it became too expensive so i moved to another place around the corner..then i moved from that one because it was full of drunks and Methamphetamine addicts...NICE...the place i have now is much better and a lot cheaper,which is marginally good news because of the way all the various shipping and customs and MAF and vehicle compliance and reregistering agencys keep charging me huge sums of money to get this car through the system.....anyhow i went to try and get some part time work in some bars and restaurants,but no-one was hiring...either that or the fact that I now look like a "bum' off the streets..my clothes havent fared so well...actually i shall need a new wardrobe after i get back....But today is the last of the checks ,and fingers crossed i get a warrant for the car..then i shall start my last leg of the trip back to wellington...and with NZ number plates...seems hard to believe that that 1967 MG Magnette built at the famous longbridge plant in Coventry England,where so many famous British cars were built...including the Austin Mini,should end its day on the other side of the world after a 6 month jaunt over land and sea.....
In the last 2 weeks i have approached TVNZ so that they might do a story on this journey and also contacted a well known advertising agency,their mission statement being"Nothing is impossible"...safe to say that apparantly picking up the phone to reply to me is actually "impossible",because i havent heard from them...it would be nice to gain an advertising deal so i can get my new wardrobe.......
Safe to say that after recieving the car and setting off for wellington,that if I should get pulled over by the Police they will instantly arrest me for stealing my own car looking like a homeless person...
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As with all big projects its the support from friends that makes the difference,so I would like to say a big big thankyou to Paul and Mike and Linda and Emily for helping with the specialist parts and for being so efficient and swift and proffesional.
So I shall raise a glass to MG BITS when at my first port of call in Belgium where I am reliably told they sell the finest Beer in the world brewed by none other than Trappist monks......DING DONG!!!!
So I shall raise a glass to MG BITS when at my first port of call in Belgium where I am reliably told they sell the finest Beer in the world brewed by none other than Trappist monks......DING DONG!!!!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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