This week’s small pleasures #238

This week’s small pleasures should be subtitled ‘the Auckland edition’ because the focus this week is our weekend trip to Auckland.

Arrowtown: a bit of goldrush history

A short drive from Queenstown, lies Arrowtown, an historic town sitting on the Arrow River.

It is hard to believe it is already half way through January already. Holidays seem far away and the daily … More

On Saturday, the second day of our weekend trip to Christchurch, we drove over to Akaroa, around an hour and … More

This week’s (semi) Wordless Wednesday features Wellington early on Friday. Captions explain what is in the pictures. You can find … More

Like many people who remained fully employed during lockdown, I have not used as much annual leave as I would … More

A weekend away is always a good thing I believe. You have to stop the normal rushing around and take … More

On Sunday, as you may have seen from the last post, we popped over the hills to Martinborough. It just … More

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday, we are in Noumea.

…must come to an end as they say, and so our holiday over The Ditch drew to an end, with … More