Ki a Ranginui e tū iho nei, tēnā koe Ki a Papatūānuku e takoto nei, tēnā koe Ngā mihi nui ki a koe Ko Ngātokimatawhaorua tōku waka Ko Wairoro me Omapere ōku wai Ko Putahi tōku maunga Ko Ngāpuhi tōku iwi Ko Ngāti Rangi tōku hapū Ko Ngawha tōku marae Ko Aotearoa tōku kainga Ko…
Croatia to Australia and everything in between In 2017 I visited ten countries starting in Europe and ending in Australia. I set foot in seven USA states, and ticked off two countries that have been on my ‘to do’ list for as long as I can remember. This is my year from Croatia to Australia…
I write this on Christmas Eve from Sydney, Australia. It is going to be another scorcher today with temperatures getting into the mid-thirties. This is quite a contrast to where I was this time last year spending Christmas in Croatia. It was below zero! Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia and has been given…
So I decided to take a trip to Budapest just before Christmas. This meant being in Hungary for winter solstice it turned out to be the best adventure ever! It was the first time that I had experienced a frozen white forest. Now, this was not your typical forest covered in snow, there wasn’t really…
