Hi
there,Thank you for signing up to follow us on our adventures with Atlantic Bridge. Its great to have you along for the ride. We have had a great time so far – in Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary and then traveling across to Portugal through Austria, Italy, France and Spain. Our two weeks in Portugal is nearly up and we are looking forward to heading off to the USA in just a few days. It will be sad to leave Europe behind. We have had such a great time here and enjoyed meeting so many young people across this wonderful continent.
Some of you will already know, but for others it may be a
surprise…..We LOVE coffee.
While we are traveling we try to find somewhere to have a
coffee and seek out the best place – the best coffee we can. Fortunately in
Europe they make great expresso – the flavour is almost always good. But for us
who hail from the great southern land it’s the milk that is the big issue. Long
life milk just won’t cut it, and to make the best coffee the milk has to be
steamed just right. Our favourite coffee back in Australia comes from The Wine
Bar, a small café on The Noosa Marina, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Its
pretty hard to beat, but we found one to match it in Bergen Op Zoom in The
Netherlands. Its not only about the coffee. Its about the service and the
atmosphere. The only thing missing in
Bergen Op Zoom was the music. Our hang out back home has live music, which is
another reason we go there.
We have loved
traveling around Europe and meeting you all in the various schools we
have visited. Coming from a multi-cultural family, with a white Australian
mother and a Maori father has given us a different perspective on life and we
love meeting people from different cultures and learning about their different
ways of life. We thought it would be fun to make a hang out space and wondered
if you would like to join us: tell us about your favourite hangouts and what
you like to do there. When we are at home we go to the Wine Bar – we don’t
always drink wine there but do have our favourite coffee – Reuben has a latte
and Molly has a flat white. We go there to hang out with friends and listen to
live music. It’s a great place and hopefully if you are visiting Queensland you
will get to come there too. Mean time, maybe you could share with us your
favourite place to hang out and post pictures of you and your friends there so
we can all share it.
So far
our favourite places are Formartines in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and Crusio’s in
Bergen Op Zoom. Great coffee, great atmosphere and great service just like the
Wine Bar back home.
We are on
tour with Atlantic Bridge, till December, joining our parents, Steve and
Ainsley Apirana on a Family Tour after which we will be on our own. Atlantic
Bridge plans to bring us back to Europe in the summer of 2015. They would like
us to tour various countries across Europe for 12 months as part of a Circuit
Riders Next Generation team. We are looking for two young people to join us on
this new venture - a team leader and a team administrator/
driver. If you are interested in being
a part of this team we would love to hear from you. More from
us very soon………..