If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea

If we were having coffee, or even a cup of tea, we would talk about the weather, and how nice…

Watching, listening, reading: January

It’s hard to believe, but we have been living here in New Zealand for three years.  We’ve got used to…

Cee’s Challenge: Week 4

The sun is shining and it is a glorious summer evening here in Wellington, New Zealand.  It’s that time of…

Slow down, you move too fast…

Every now and again, we all need to switch off, do nothing and enjoy the world around us.  I’ve only…

This Week’s Small Pleasures

I always enjoy reading the series of posts on this week’s small pleasures over at A New Life Wandering, so…

Cee’s Challenge: Week 3

So here we are with my first Cee’s Challenge of this year.  I was on holiday in week 1 and…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea

If we were having coffee or even, let’s face it, a nice, long, cold drink as it is a hot…

Rain, sun and wind or what we did in Dunedin when the weather couldn’t make up its mind

As the holiday drew to a close, we spent a day in Dunedin, walking about, going to museums and generally…

A castle, a garden and some more familiar names

In the last post, I mentioned the number of places we saw on the map with Scottish names in this…

Wine and fruit in Central Otago

One of the fun things for me about traveling around Central Otago, was the place names.  Roxburgh, Bannockburn, Hampden, Ettrick,…