A short drive from Queenstown, lies Arrowtown, an historic town sitting on the Arrow River.
Category: Travel
This week’s small pleasures #226 or Queenstown weekend part 1
For this week’s small pleasures post, I’m going to take you with me to Queenstown, where we have been for a long weekend break.
At seat at the table: Rātā
There is no Six on Saturday post from me today as we are away for the weekend, down in Queenstown. … More
Words on Wednesday: Dunedin indoors (the trip part 5)
It seems ages since we had our short trip to Dunedin: we are back at work and daily life goes … More
Wordless Wednesday: Streets of Dunedin
It is back to Dunedin for this week’s Wordless Wednesday. Captions on the pictures You can find Thistles and Kiwis … More
Birds aplenty: the Royal Albatross Centre
I have always been fascinated by albatrosses. With their size, ability to fly long distances and their sometimes comical take-offs … More
Words on Wednesday: Port Chalmers
As I sat down to map out blog posts on our recent holiday, I struggled to think how to structure them and what to do in what order. It has taken a bit of work but I have decided to do three more posts after today: one on the Royal Albatross Centre, one on ‘things to do indoors’ and one on street art. Hope you will come along for the journey.
This week’s small pleasures #225
What a week in world news…from a plane crash in Indonesia, to the never ending tales of Covid, to the … More
A trip to Dunedin (part one)
We are just back today from a short trip down to Dunedin, the ‘Edinburgh of the South’ and the second … More
Words on Wednesday: Zealandia
Cities don’t have to be places devoid of native wildlife. In fact, in some cases it can completely flourish there … More
Thistles and Kiwis 