A blog about life in Wellington, New Zealand
On Thursday, we headed out for a celebratory feast for my name day (St Barbara is the patron saint of explosives and firearms amongst other things….). It was also an evening celebrating 10 years of Noble Rot Wine Bar and also them acquiring local Truffle Wine Imports.
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would wish each other season’s greetings, talk about how we … More
What a week in world news…from a plane crash in Indonesia, to the never ending tales of Covid, to the … More
For part two of my personal highlights of 2019, I’m going to turn to tastes and travels. Whereas travels are … More
Here in the Southern Hemisphere we are transitioning from winter to spring. None of that ‘going back to school’ or end of summer here, but a joy that the days are getting longer and a sense that it is time to make plans.
This is probably the most difficult round up of the year, as I just know I will miss things. There … More
We escaped the cold New Zealand winter last week and headed north to the tropics for a few days in Singapore.
Wellington is home to a burgeoning group of laneways, those small streets that give people an alternative route through a city, cutting through between busy streets and offering opportunities to create communities of small businesses, homes and places to gather.
Thistles and Kiwis 