A not-so-speedy visit to the Karapoti Rata
The phone on the end table beside me buzzed lightly. It was Kirsty in our group chat. “We should walk to the big tree,” “Absolutely!” I responded, from my favourite […]
The phone on the end table beside me buzzed lightly. It was Kirsty in our group chat. “We should walk to the big tree,” “Absolutely!” I responded, from my favourite […]
A week before the first COVID-19 lockdown was announced here in NZ, we went camping up in Ōtaki Forks. It was March 2020, and we had no idea at the […]
Laura and I go for some sort of a walk every weekend, and a decent tramp at least once a month. We have a steady rotation of tracks that we […]
My college friend Mara and I always had a tradition of creating mottos for the new year. Usually they were something short and rhyming, like ‘Living the dream in 2014’. […]
Aotearoa has a set of hiking tracks known as the ‘Great Walks’. These pass through some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, and the tracks are really well […]
So, as in my last post, we’re still in the thick of the delta outbreak here in Aotearoa, as the chart below shows. It’s still mainly Auckland, with various other […]
I feel like one day I’m going to wake up, check Twitter, and discover that the world has ended. The US has just gone completely mad these days, and those […]
It’s winter time here in Wellington. During the darkest days of the year, sunrise isn’t until nearly 8am, and the sky is already navy by the time I leave work. […]
This year was my fourth southern hemisphere Christmas, and probably my favourite so far. Christmas Day we had perfect tramping weather – overcast, but not raining. (I prefer not to […]
Remember how Laura and I got engaged in Indonesia back in August? Since then we’ve been trying to figure out how it is that we want to mark the milestone […]