Fashion Week
at our Poole Homestead. Lilly (or whatever her lovely name was, really I think it changes every second day ;) got lucky being be-knitted another…
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From Onetahuti Bay to Awaroa
The Abel Tasman National Park in front of our house keeps us walking. Every month there’s at least one beach or track we want to…
The Centre of New Zealand
As soon as the kids were delivered to school and kindy, we did some brainstorming on which beach we’d go… and Christian suggested we’d buy…
Spring Festival
We were warmly invited to the Wallace street Kindergarten for the Spring Festival to share in their celebration of the joy of Spring – and…
Starting the BBQ season!
Around the 20th of October it got really warm, and though it was near-frost in the mornings, the blue, cloudless sky warmed up the air…
Apple Tree Bay
Two more different rocks than granite and marble would be difficult to find: Together they form the rocky basement of the Abel Tasman National Park…
The Golden Bay HDR
After the walkway we didn’t turn and go home instantly but had a Takaka and Pohara visit until the hunger rose and brought us back…
Takaka Hill Walkway
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…
Newcastle
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…
Marble cake
*** The two weeks spring holidays are over, we’re back home! *** Time for the things we were missing while away: Marmorgugelhupf, for example. But…