Tag: travel
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Wellington, The Pause
I am in Wellington, New Zealand for a very fast family visit. Just two and a half more days then I am flung back into the void. You have been here (Wellington) with me before and there are a lot of family things needing my attention in Wellington so I am going to pause and I will not post…
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bus, train, tram, lunch
Yesterday Fede and I climbed on a bus in Apollo Bay and it carried us to Geelong. It was a windy road along a series of beautiful beaches. But a windy road in a bus. Enough said. Then we ran, laughing with relief at being off the bloody bus, through a gorgeous old train station that…
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Slack Lines
When Sophie was 21 I made her a quilt. I do not make many as they are all hand stitched with a needle and my mother’s thimble and they take a long time to make. But they are treasures. This one still looks as good as the day it was finished. Setting up the Slack Line.…
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Australia: A Beach
To reach the beach we walked through the bush from the house (in New Zealand and Australia we call the woods/forest The Bush) down a well maintained path that meanders across a reasonably steep hill and then through a lagoon until accompanied by the applause of wild geese we burst out into the beach. Going to…
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Adrenaline
I always think that for the first few days in a new country a person runs on pure adrenaline. And adrenaline is injected via images and sounds and scents. Each creating the push that keeps one going. But in so doing: disabling the ability to disassemble the sounds and scents and visuals and reassemble them…
The Kitchen's Garden 