Jesus year
Today is the first day of my ‘Jesus year’. I heard about this when I was in New Zealand with friends. Because Jesus died and rose from the dead when […]
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Breaking the spell
On Friday, we headed back up the coast, via the vineyards of Blenheim, in blazing sunshine and left the South Island through the splendour of the Marlborough Straits on the […]
How (not) to pash a Kiwi
A couple of hundred km north of the glaciers is a place called Punakaiki which is renowned for its pancake rocks. In fact all there is at Punakaiki are the […]
Laura’s list
Laura gave me a list before I came to NZ of things you must do while you’re in the country. Here it is with where I’m up to: 1. Pie […]
The luckiest woman alive
There are only a few days left of my trip, and I am beginning to believe that I am the luckiest woman alive. In the whole time I’ve been here […]
Tremors
New Zealand is gaining a reputation for earthquakes. Since I arrived on the South Island, earthquakes have featured as heavily in the conversation as the weather does in the UK. […]
Clear skies at Lake Tekapo
I am waiting for South Island to show me something unlovely. It feels like every part of the countryside here is at least pretty, and at most is breathtakingly beautiful. […]
A Kiwi Christmas
It’s long over now – the party hats and wrapping paper in the bin, the sherry all drunk and the turkey turned into soup and eaten up in butties. My […]
I climbed Mount Doom, but kept the ring
Back to Auckland and then on a train (with a chatty conductor who gave a running commentary the entire five hours on what we could see through the window – […]
Mangroves and pretty toes in Paihia
Rest, rest ,rest. Can anything be more wonderful? The gratuitous excuse to lollop and do nothing? But is there anything harder to make yourself do when you’ve been running full […]
