“Did anyone draw the curtains? It feels kind of dark in here, doesn’t it?” – It’s the day of the eclipse! Unfortunately not a total one…

This time we picked a low tide time for a walk, the great wide flat beach opening in front of us… Anna and Emsi had…

… gave us one of the most intriguing deserts ever: A meringue, mostly presented in form of a cake with fruit and cream topping. A bunch…

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…

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…

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…

We were warmly invited to the Wallace street Kindergarten for the Spring Festival to share in their celebration of the joy of Spring – and…

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…

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…

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…