Miriam H.

Who’d know that in my lifetime of driving or taking lifts, getting on a bus would be so gratifying. Peter and I are both gratified that public transport for the over 65’s is free. We are also gratified that it is relatively easy to navigate to unknown places and that the drivers of these welcome […]

Again we find ourselves on the gravel patch which is the N.Z.C.M.A camp among the aeroplanes and helicopters at Ardmore. At first I thought it was strange that the camp is situated here, in an airport. However strange or not there is always something going on. Sometimes the thing that is happening is during the

When we broke down and limped into the Hamilton Holiday Park my brother rang and wanted to help us to escape ‘The Tron’. He would have come and picked us up and taken us back to Auckland, his chosen mecca. We had never been in the tron so we elected to stay. So far the

The caravan and ourselves have been on a break. We have been overseas and visiting family and the caravan has been parked in my brother’s backyard. When we left the caravan I did wonder if I would want to come back to it. I worried that I would not feel like returning to our mobile

This is sort of a travel blog I know but I do want to mention dogs. When you travel around you do see a lot of dogs, especially in New Zealand. We have recently been overseas and I cannot recall noting a great number of dogs in Oxford in the UK, which is where we

Birds make up the countryside and also they inhabit our urban areas. Birds cannot be escaped and they poop everywhere. A pigeon crapped on Peter’s head as he sat outside a cafe in Oxford in the UK. “That’s good luck actually” everyone said. “Actually felt like bad luck” thought Peter. Birds are beautiful though. We

As this blog is now more of a travel journal my twitterings are going to be of what I observe around the country. Caravanning does put you in touch with the country. I mean literally the dirt, the stones and the grasses that make up the countryside. Sometimes when you step out in the morning

Running a cafe always seems a precarious and hard line of business to be in. People can be fickle where they take a coffee and business can not always be guaranteed. However there seems to be a growing number of cafes in New Zealand and my husband and I are pleased about this. We like

My husband is lured into laundromats by viewing the number of people in them. It might surprise you, as it has surprised me, that laundromats are everywhere and sometimes there are two next to each other. Peter treats these establishments like cafes or restaurants. If there are people in them you assume there is a

We have now been travelling around the North Island for some months. In this time we have walked some of the tracks depicted in the book ‘Excellent Short Walks in the North Island’. I am a short walker. It has been an excellent reference so far as each walk time has been accurate and the