Raglan

We decided to spend a week in Raglan over Christmas at a really nice hostel. Christmas will always be a bit weird, away from home in a hot country, but we thought we'd just go for full weirdness and surf on Christmas day! We spent the week surfing and drinking in the hostel - Andy got on really well with it and was standing up pretty quickly, but Maddie took a bit longer to pick it up.. A bit longer turned into never as you can see from the pictures.. Oh well, still really good fun though and surfing on Christmas day took away some of our homesickness and we managed to video chat with family. Although Maddie had a big red tomato face from too long surfing in the sun - I've never had sunburn so bad that it prompted gasps whenever I walked into a room.Read more