Dear friends, It has been almost perfect weather during our trip, and even the few rain days we've had have all coincided with 'driving days' so we've been lucky. Leaving the capital city, Wellington, we travelled north and after winding through the Rimutakas, stopped for a delicious big breakfast at Greytown on the recommendation of [...]
Dear Friends, Another glorious day as we drove from Nelson along the winding Queen Charlotte Drive to Picton from where we took the Interislander Ferry to Wellington. The ferry cruises through the beautiful Marlborough Sounds, then across Cook Strait and into Wellington Harbour. A panorama of Queen Charlotte Drive looking out to the Sounds. Blue [...]
Dear friends, I hope you will bear with me for this posting as it is rather a nostalgic one for me. It is about my day in Hampden where I spent many of my holidays up until the age of twelve at my paternal Granny's house, and the next village, Moeraki, which we often visited [...]
Dear friends, It could be said that New Year Resolutions are merely 'To Do' lists for the first week of January. If so, now that we are in the second week of January 2017, I can feel free to share some thoughts with you about life in general and to bring some positive energy into [...]
Greetings everyone, I've been looking back over this year's travel and remembering not only the beautiful places I visited, the many interesting and passionate people I met and learned from, and the variety of entertainment and delicious food and wine we enjoyed, but also thinking about the small details and discoveries, the splendid light and [...]
The shrine at the corner, where the cover photo was taken A trip down memory lane Saw Maha Lane to be exact, the small street on which I lived for my four years in Yangon from 2002-06. The cover photo of my book ‘Two Eggs and a Lemon’, about my time [...]