9 marca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
South of Stratford is the town of Patea, which has a monument to the Polynesians who arrived by ocean-going canoe (waka) and originally settled the area. The monument was famously used in the music Czytaj więcej
10 marca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ 🌧 4 °C
On the return trip the next day, we stopped off in Foxton, which used to have a thriving flax industry--my maternal grandmother's dad worked as an engineer in one of the flax mills. Unfortunately, the Czytaj więcej
11 marca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
This city on a mighty river--the Whanganui, which rises in the Volcanic Plateau in the middle of the North Island--recently won an award for the way its main shopping area has been transformed.
On my Czytaj więcej
12 marca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Once it gets past the Motonui power station north of New Plymouth, SH3 in North Taranaki is extremely scenic--following the Awakino River gorge, climbing up Mt. Messenger and through the tunnel at the Czytaj więcej
13 marca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
I went by Intercity bus from Cambridge to Auckland. The seats downstairs are really comfy, but still folks put their feet on them. Those are Golden State Warriors scuffs, so I had to take a photo of Czytaj więcej
