Travel theme: Forest Oh, Ailsa…where to begin…? My favourite motif and my major love – the Forest. Of course I love my own forest best…and in spring when the wild apple trees and cherries greet me when I walk across the meadows to where the forest starts. But… …the Kauri forest on the North Island, […]Read Post ›
Travel theme: Peaks In the header, Mount Ruapehu, NZ. The Mitre, Milford Sound, NZ
For Sylvain Landry: Vintage from New Zealand and the old train ”Kingston Flyer”.
The challenge this week from WordPress is to “…share your vision of our glorious Mother Earth”. I feel…we are a tiny, gloriously beautiful, island out in the great blue – surrounded by stars and the heavens. Who is at the wheel? I wish we had better control …I fear we have lost the sextant and […]Read Post ›
Cars can be fun, but also beautifully decorated. In New Zealand I just loved all the cars wearing innovative signs or being richly decorated. As I am a fern lover – the header car with silver fern caught my eye. Sylvain Landry loves the colour red – so here is a red Lion as well… […]Read Post ›
As I have just been soaked in the hot pools in Iceland, I quote: ”Some Like it Hot”… For other hot spots – click here. Hot pools in New Zealand and in Iceland. The difference is that you should not put your foot in the NZ pool…you might lose it.
I am immensely proud of my daughter, who after high school went to New Zealand as a volunteer worker – natural science. NZ is far away from home – in fact they are our antipodes – and she did not know anybody there. I never got the opportunity to go when I was young, so […]Read Post ›
Art On the Road. Being a language teacher, I am a great Lover of Words. Making art with words demands certain skills as well as practicing, practicing and again – practicing. In New Zealand they love making life on the road more fun. And they are very skilled… Hopefully you will enjoy these as much […]Read Post ›
Irresistable – a challenge involving Trees. Join in! Click here for more about how. What trees and what forest could be more suitable for a dreamy memory than the one where Frodo and his faithful companions could be found? New Zealand, Wellington.
New Zealand’s great glaciers, Franz Josef and Fox make their visitors feel exceptionally small. The Franz Josef (Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere in Māori) is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long glacier located on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km (12 mi) to the south, it is unique in descending from […]Read Post ›
