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• New Zealand Day 3: The Road to Mordor

  
  saigoheiki.com — Authority: 112
  Day 3 – Wednesday, 18th November 2009 I woke up at about 7am plus today to the after-rain wet roads and the sound of tyres kneeling over them. I had previously slept on the upper bunk depicted in this picture, where the Japanese dude slept below, but found it to be inconvenient as I’d like to [...]
  2 days ago

• Weekend getaway to Akaroa

  
  marmalade.ca — Authority: 109
  Last Saturday I headed out of town with some friends for a minibreak on the company dime. For the Christmas function, my company had rented us a dinner cruise (!!!) around Akaroa harbour then put us up for the night in one of several local motels. At first I was a bit leery of the “motel” bit, as I’m used to the ...
  1 week ago

• New Zealand Day 1: The Start at Christchurch

  
  saigoheiki.com — Authority: 112
  Day 1 – Monday, 16th November 2009 The night before, Ethan told me on MSN that he’d send me off and the spat of melancholy that swelled up at the thought of not being able to see him or Desmond again dissipated a little, and I felt a little better. I had wanted at the very [...]
  1 week ago

• Epilogue: Oh, that’ll do

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  Things from my notebook that I couldn’t wrangle into any sort of narrative After I’d checked in at the hotel in Christchurch, I went up to my room, swiped my room card and opened what I thought was my hotel room. Instead I found myself in a small space, faced with three doors. I felt like a character in an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 10: The case of the exploding bear

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  There comes a time in the life of any New Zealander from the generation known as “X”, when one must look back and wonder what happened to the Play School toys. Big Ted, Manu and Humpty now live at Te Papa, the sign at the Otago Settlers Museum says. The bear, the wahine and the curious round gent are most likely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 9: Pleasantly weary

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  I didn’t meant to go to the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. It was an accident, I swear. See, I’d been basing my travels on my 1969 edition of the Shell Guide to New Zealand (edited by Maurice Shadbolt, cover by Colin McCahon), so anything opened in the last 40 years was off my radar. But the Dunedin Railway ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 8: Everyone’s talking about it

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  The road to Bluff is desolate and beautiful. But it’s also so isolated. It seems like the sort of place where people would only willingly live if they had a really good reason, like running away from extreme levels of parking fines. The sky was grey, but the landscape had a strange brightness to it. It was like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 6: Pinned and mounted like a butterfly

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  If I ran a museum, it would not have a mannequin of an historic person, such as a miner, a blacksmith or a fisherman. And it would not have a motion-triggered recording of said character talking about what life is like in his historical time, voiced by a New Zealand actor struggling with an accent wavering between ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 5: Holiday makers

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  “Hagley Park is the second-largest manicured park in the world. It’s the largest in the southern hemisphere.” The airport shuttle driver provided a commentary for the English tourists in the van. “It’s a real asset for the city. I always love seeing people walk along the river, jog along it.” It was a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kaikoura - On the way home

  
  Nicola's Daisies — Authority: 119
  Stunning scenary at Kaikoura. The snow capped mountains were quite breathtaking. No whales though. I thought they would be there to see me, but no. Maybe next time. The last of our holiday pictures. You really dont want to know about the ferry trip home!
  3 weeks ago

• Part 4: White rental car blues

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  I rented a car ($20, cheap) and was upgraded from a Corolla to a Camry. Not that it made any difference from the driver’s seat, but perhaps people would gaze at me and think, “Oh, she’s a driving Camry – a sensible family sedan. Good choice.” My aim was to head for Akaroa, and I managed to get on the right ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part 3: B-Right-On

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  New Brighton, or Brighton, or B-Right-On is a seaside suburb. So is Sumner, but the difference is that while Sumner is quite nice, Brighton is a bit shit. The trouble with New Brighton is that it used to be a boom town. For a couple of decades, it was the only place in New Zealand with Saturday morning trading. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part 2: The house that wasn’t there

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  Simon and David were two businessmen in their mid 40s. David was visiting Christchurch and it was Simon’s job to give his colleague a tour of the city. Today they were visiting the Canterbury Museum and had stumbled across the Bluff Paua House exhibit around the same time I did. But before we were allowed into the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part 1: Four days, maximum

  
  Robyn Gallagher — Authority: 117
  Wellington is quite a nice place, Ron the taxi driver tells me. Well, at least it was the last time he went there – which was in the ’80s, when he was in the circus. Though, he says, he did have trouble finding a hotel that would serve him a drink. The pressure of conversation is weighing on me. It’s a long way ...
  3 weeks ago

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