The Takaka Hill has the deepest caves in New Zealand. Its unusual karst landscape was formed by the weathering of NZ’s oldest rocks. Layers of…

The early settlement of little cheese scone dwarfs and wooden knights, riding shellfish and plant remains lead to the conclusion, that everybode in this very…

*** The two weeks spring holidays are over, we’re back home! *** Time for the things we were missing while away: Marmorgugelhupf, for example. But…

Verena and I waited in the car and cheered when Anna and Dad came back from the Fish and Chips Takaway with big bags. Healthy…

“Weeeeee used to wait …” Not in the suburbs but at a recreation and picnic area with excellent view and enough picnic to wait the…

We always arrive in New Plymouth in the late afternoon, after staying all day at the White Cliffs coastline taking walks, sitting in the sun.…

The stony Raglan beaches were a foretaste of what the sand would be all down the west coast: Black.  The colour varies from black in…

In our Austrian livingroom we can see that Pariokariwa Point every day on a broad format picture that beautifies the wall above our couch. A…

Since Miocene, sedimentation has occurred throughout the Taranaki Region, generating sandstones, soft mudstones, and some limestone. The most impressive Limestone range can be seen north…

The wind farm has a capacity of 64MW using 28 wind turbines. Construction was completed in March 2011,at a cost of 200 million NZ$. Not…