A bit tired we headed towards Collingwood to grab some real food, having a long relaxing beachwalk and after a playground-and-icecream stop in Takaka returning to Motueka at…

The night at the cabin was very quiet, unexpectedly. Seems that the season hasn’t started yet, only the mosquitos are already at full power (hungry…

The little cabin we rented wasn’t ready when we got there so we had to take another walk (but it was what we were there…

Tuhuroa, as the Maori call it, is New Zealands longest sandspit, forming the northern side of Golden Bay with a 26 km long sandy rim…

The northern entry to the Abel Tasman National Park starts at Wainui, which has a big inlet and bay facing the Northwest. If we have…

Thursday morning, kids both have a long day (until 3 pm), time for Mummy and Daddy to have a little road trip on their own…

Floundering about in the still cold (but bearable tempered) water at Kaiteriteri is our daily fun in the afternoons these days. The weather situation is…

The water is getting warm quickly, it’s no longer impossible (even for me) to get wet, and even if the rim ouf our trousers gets…

There are just two ways to do Christmas this year: –  baking cookies, listening to X-mas music (and NZers seem to have a weird taste when…

Never heard of that one? We neither, but the Nelson Market has it – and we bought it. It contains not only mussels, though; the…