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…

The Takaka Hill has the deepest caves in New Zealand. Its unusual karst landscape was formed by the weathering of NZ’s oldest rocks. Layers of…

The early settlement of little cheese scone dwarfs and wooden knights, riding shellfish and plant remains lead to the conclusion, that everybode in this very…

*** The two weeks spring holidays are over, we’re back home! *** Time for the things we were missing while away: Marmorgugelhupf, for example. But…