Several of you have recently asked me what the heck I was talking about when mentioning that we were preparing to go off on our first WWOOF assignment. WWOOF, according to the booklet we have, officially stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms; but everyone else refers to it as Willing Workers on Organic […]
We all have this bad habit – forming an opinion about someone in 60 seconds after looking them up and down for a short moment, sizing them up. Or by just listening to their voices/accents. Staying at a backpackers affords one the opportunity to meet a lot of fun people, and at minimum, if one […]
We had a really lovely day yesterday here in Pahia in the Bay of Islands. Foregoing packaged activities and just striking off on our own, we discovered a beautiful Maori cemetary on a hilltop and an empty secret beach just down the other ocean-wrapped side of that tiny neck of land, our first walk on […]
We are now the proud owners of a silvery-blue 1990 Honda Civic 4-door sedan, 150,000 kilometers (100,500 miles), purchased for the most excellent sum of NZ$1300 (approx US $870). And it came to us with what we like to call ‘a little bit of New Zealand magic’:
On Sunday we awoke to the annoying sound of […]
Some of you may have heard me muttering some such thing in times gone by and hopefully have not been completely perplexed.
One of the things I like about New Zealand is that this sentiment, which seems so obscure from our whole western mind/body duality perspective, is much more a part of the culture here than […]