Did you read part 1? Yep? Well, Where are we now? In the shade of the day, where the event of the evening meal takes up its usual position (front and center) and always awakens a new lease of life into 4 wearying minds.. To try and articulate the joy with which the evening meal... Continue Reading →
A travellers routine ~ Part 1
I'm not usually one for routine. In fact, I'm not usually one for anything in that department, really; rules, guidelines, limits - all constraining things of that ilk. I've been breaking them so long that they tend to keep their distance nowadays.. But, slowly and slyly, under the delicate threshold of perception, a certain routine... Continue Reading →
Daybreak to nightfall – A New Zealand Adventure
A night watching two towers sees us awaken near to noon, wriggling from the comfort of our sleeping bags and into the bleached light of the new day. This location found close to dark the night before was now clear and resplendent. The sun has just clipped the ice capped mountains of the southern alps... Continue Reading →
Travels changed you.
A multicoloured campervan zooms over the sprawling plains of Hokitika, gathering speed, vanishing and emerging from the mirror haze like an apparition. Tom - Pwhhhoo.. Lets eat now boys? I want food now. What do you think of that boys. Food now? I'm ready if you are. Liam - Oh yeah. Great idea. What about... Continue Reading →
It’s been a while.
Yes, its been a while.. I should probably talk on all the epic adventures we've been having here over the last few weeks in New Zealand - these are surely the things that will entertain and inspire others in their own journeys and ambitions. Somewhere here, experienced but unwritten, await all those remarkable moments that... Continue Reading →
The real-life Daredevil
Finding the balance point of the fridge door so it sits, swinging neither in nor out. Foreseeing the fall of a biscuit tin lid with a well placed foot. Knowing which of the floorboards still resist creak. Holding the lock of the door at just the threshold that it slides and not clicks. All in... Continue Reading →
The road less travelled
The tarmac is a paler grey than the usual, flecked with white and utterly hitchless. A vague mirage shimmers as we near the summit of another lowland hilltop, sky and earth together and boundless, soon giving way to the next great length of highway, which always seems to be sliding off to some impossible destination... Continue Reading →
Travelling isn’t all sunshine and rainbows – part 2
I went travelling with this fella called robins. He smiles a fair bit which I like and he makes silly faces even more which I like even more. We're not together or anything, but sometimes it seems that way - he's got a girlfriend actually, but sometimes I feel like he's my girlfriend. We dont... Continue Reading →