Summer Holidays 2017: Doubtful Sound
Waiting for sunshine in Fiordland is like hoping for a lottery win. Average precipitation is somewhere around 8000mm a year, about 8-9 times as much…
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Residents!
After a 3 year long and tedious visa application process we can finally call ourselves proud owners of New Zealand resident visas! Yay! :) There…
Finished house pictures
Our builder sent a photographer to take some pictures of the finished house. They may appear in some advertisements and lifestyle magazines soon. It was…
Bread Challenge: French Baguette
Supermarket baguettes in New Zealand typically have a similar consistency as swimming noodles, yet these folks dare to call them “French sticks” (an insult to French…
The Gorse Story
When we bought that piece of land, we noticed that there is a heap of soil in the middle of the paddock. The previous owners…
Visiting the Natural Flames in Murchison
At some hidden spots in the middle of the forest in Murchison, gas comes out of the ground. Decades ago, someone lit one of them.…
Building a workbench
Wife calls it the ‘man cave’. It’s indeed a nice place to relax from the office job – and to build things. I didn’t bring…
Roadworks – Part 2
I never thought that asphalt works could have such aestethical beauty. ;)
Roadworks – Part 1
There is a digger in the garden – again! Sealing the driveway turned out to be a much bigger job than expected. “We’ll just level…