My father, Jeff Gray was always happy to share information with other researchers and that’s the whole point of the website. The information is here for you to use, but, as you use it, we’d really appreciate it if you’d keep a few things in mind.

Much of the information here and the photographs, documents and other media came from someone else. For the most part, these contributors gave us permission to use their images and information with the  understanding that we would give them credit for their contribution. We have tried very hard to always give credit where credit is due, and tell our visitors exactly where we got each piece of information. Furthermore, we, too, are hoping all that hard work will be acknowledged and appreciated as it makes its way around the Internet.

If you plan to use information from this site for your genealogy and you end up publishing it, either in a traditional publication like a book or even just a public tree on Ancestry.com, please copy the sources along with it! Don’t just put it up on your tree without any reference to the people who did all the work to find it, contribute it and make it available to you. In the case of images, like photos and documents, it would be a good idea if you contacted us to ask permission first. In some cases, we will need to contact the original contributor to make sure it is OK with them as well.

Along with the other sources associated with the information or images, we’d also appreciate it if you would include the following reference either in your notes or as an additional source citation associated with each image or person-page:

Original Research - Jeff Gray
https://www.gray.kiwi/Jeff-Gray

That way, if someone sees the information in your tree in the future and wants to know where it came from, they can contact us directly too here. Also, we’re still busy adding to our collection, and we may need to make corrections or add new information about our ancestors. If you reference us, then hopefully future researchers will be able to find that new information.

Thanks!

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Slept in until after 10! Most unusual for us.

Finally emerging and getting going we caught the beach tourist bus is most worthwhile as a familiarisation tour of the area with good views from the open top deck of the bus.

Luckily we did not choose to stay in the beach area as it’s all vast hotels, scruffy restaurants and tat shops. Horrid.

The Tropical Spice Garden (reached via the beach bus) was recommended by Sharon at the hotel and is a well documented walk around a vast selection of local and exotic jungle plants. There is excellent signage and an audio guide with more information than most will be able to adsorb and there is an "express" route to the cafe for when you have had enough. We bailed out after about half as it was immeasurably hot.

We did stop off to have the "fish foot spa" in the stream and a refreshing cup of herbal tea half way through.

Recommend the iced water chestnuts in coconut cream at the restaurant.

Dinner at Tec Sen restaurant was fantastic. Again as recommended by Sharon the double cooked pork belly is sensational……..

Another early night as we are off in the morning.

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Rain is forecast for today and indeed it looks very likely. S

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My career has been in computers and communications industry since I starting work in 1970. During this time I have worked for many large companies both in New Zealand and overseas. In recent times I have worked as a freelance consultant and I am a business mentor for Business in the Community. I have managed and been a director of a number of successful Information Technology companies over the past 30 years.

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We've been traveling a bit and in more recent years we've been keeping a daily diary of where we have been and what we've been doing. This is mostly to help us remember but may be of interest to others.

One thing about most of these trips (China and Egypt are excluded) is that we have avoided holiday packages and gone in search of our own experience and been plesantly surprised at how easy it is.

All this came about as a result of travelling on a package tour to Nepal and India some years ago. There was nothing wrong with the tour mind except that it was expensive and the person we thought was our guide turned out to have little knowledge of either country and was there primarily to shepherd us and carry our passports for us.

So we asked the question "how hard can it be?". The answer seems to be "not very" but some days are a definite surprise.

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