Arrowtown: a bit of goldrush history

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

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.

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…the weekend coffee share edition

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea… we would talk about how one of life’s pleasures is … More

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 Friday morning’s offshore earthquakes – a 7.1 at East Cape which was felt across the country (and which woke me up), and a 7.4 and 8.1 in the Kermadec Islands.

This week’s small pleasures #232

On Saturday night, the government announced that all of New Zealand, except Auckland, is going back up to Covid-alert Level 2. Auckland is now at Level 3, after more community outbreaks in the south of the city.