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 … More

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, … More

One of the ‘problems’ about travelling in New Zealand is that there is so much to see. Our short trip … More

The road south of Christchurch is straight and flat, quite unlike many in New Zealand. If it is a good … More

We are just back from a week traveling around a bit of the South Island of New Zealand, seeing new … More

Happy New Year from a Wellington where temperatures reached 28C today. It’s now evening and still hot. Anyway, we had … More

It’s been ages since I’ve done a ‘6 things’ post, so here’s one with a summer theme. 1) Go to … More

So here we are at the last of Cee’s weekly challenges for 2015. Where has this year gone? Tell how … More

So here we are on Christmas Eve, and my early morning plan to make a cake didn’t happened as I … More

A few of us at Pilates this morning were wondering where the year had gone. Here we are, with Christmas … More