For this week’s Worldless Wednesday, we travel back to our long weekend trip down to Queenstown and our Sunday drive…
This week’s small pleasures #228
It is somehow hard to believe it is almost half way through the month already. Easter has come and gone,…
A party without cake is just a meeting: the weekend coffee share
Having friends around, whether it be lunch, dinner or just for coffee is a good excuse to make a cake.…
Six on Saturday 10.04.21
As you can tell by the featured image at the top of the post, it is a bit wet today.
Wordless Wednesday: iconic buildings and other things
For this week’s (semi) Wordless Wednesday we journey back to the South Island, to Cardrona and the famous Cardrona Hotel,…
This week’s small pleasures #227
I wasn’t quite sure where to start this week. I’ve been on holiday which has been wonderful.
Six on Saturday 03.04.21
Hi and I am back again for Six on Saturday after a lovely weekend away in Queenstown and a few…
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 my recent trip to Queenstown, and how…
Words on Wednesday: the Chinese settlement in Arrowtown
Close by the centre of Arrowtown lies a very different heritage site, the Arrowtown Chinese settlement. It is one of at least ten Chinese settlements that grew up around the gold mining towns in Otago during the late the nineteenth century.
Arrowtown: a bit of goldrush history
A short drive from Queenstown, lies Arrowtown, an historic town sitting on the Arrow River.
Thistles and Kiwis 