The first warm day in weeks we spent a morning off in the valley, just us grown-ups by car, just going for some adventure drive-aimlessly-around…

With this beautiful “The Doors” song in my mind, I did the last of these many steps that led us to the very end of…

Kina has many faces: It stretches north of Mapua onto an almost-island (peninsula) which nearly touches Motueka Harbour on its northern tongue. Some nice holiday…

Because Anna attends to school from 9 to 3, there’s never any homework.  And that’s a good thing, too, because when the kids get home,…

Get up, have some perfectly spiced chai with milk and a big spoon of sugar. Inhale the fresh spring air with closed eyes and listen…

Anna had her first contact with stilts two weeks ago (and already knows how a fall feels on these stilts with shoes nailed to it).…

Our weekly adventure at the Nelson Saturday Market left us a little bit exhausted, so we ate some stirfry chicken with noodles (honey and peanutbutter…

When we first drove the Takaka Hill Highway we realised it was a massive crossing with several sights and lookouts and Canaan Road which is…

Two weeks ago I joined the local dollmaking group in Motueka which meet for some hours every  Wednesday morning, have some tea, talk a lot…

Spring rain falls continously. Some dry hours are followed by more rain. But then, there are some few sunny and really warm days sandwiched in…