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Did anyone ever expect this infrequent blogger to end up in Japan? I certainly didn’t, but the world is a funny place and you just have to roll with it! […]
Did anyone ever expect this infrequent blogger to end up in Japan? I certainly didn’t, but the world is a funny place and you just have to roll with it! […]
Today is the final day of May, hasn’t it flown by! I have big plans for this blog post. So big that they haven’t finished yet, that’s how big the […]
“You should check out Awa Awa Rata reserve, no one really knows about it, it’s a big secret!!” said the five or six people who said I should visit it. […]
Okay I’ll admit, I’ve hit a brick wall with what to write about today. I’ve been settling into life in Methven: going to yoga, running again, doing online induction assessments, […]
An old habit of a former tour guide is reading every plaque and sign on the off chance someone will ask you for everything you know about it. It makes […]
There are two things Oamaru possesses to draw the tourists in. Penguins, and Victorian architecture. Being one of the earliest large British settlements in New Zealand, it has its fair […]
Never in my life did I ever think I would encounter wild penguins. They live in places so cold and harsh it just never seemed a real possibility. I suppose […]
Today I spent most of the day driving. After a stressful morning of house sorting ie. not being able to contact people and having people contacting me to know what […]
No matter which mountain I’m climbing up, even a puny 806m one today, about two thirds of the way up I have to say to myself “Kat, you climbed Taranaki, […]
This morning I woke up to the thinnest layer of ice on my windscreen and thought “Enough of this nonsense, I’m going back to the coast”. It’s just as cold […]