One of the great things about travelling for the longer term is the ability to stop for a while, settle a bit, and find out more about the place you are calling home for the next section of your life. Whatever travel means to folk, to me it is being somewhere different and experiencing somewhere new. This is what I am doing now – pausing for a while in an absolutely … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
To Tongariro
It turns out our aforementioned decision to go arbitrarily North was approximately 100% the opposite direction to that which we needed to go to find work. Luckily however, New Zealand isn’t that big of a place, so when a job cropped up half way down the North Island it was a mere six hour road trip away in our already loving and faithful steed. Road trips are, generally, a … [Read more...]
Northward bound
Having spent some time setting up Bernie, we have now finally left Auckland. I suspect it was about time to do so. As a farewell gift, the city provided us with a drunk who attempted to clean our rear window with a loaf of bread. He staggered up to my window and explained that his sponge had gone. I explained that we were fine without his window cleaning services, which he … [Read more...]
Photography Composition Tips
In today’s photography tips article I’m going to be sharing with you a number of tips to help you compose better photos. Improving your photography composition is an easy way to take better photos – just by following some simple guidelines you’ll be amazed at the difference. Whilst there is no shortcut to becoming a better photographer short of practice, there are a few … [Read more...]
Auckland’s volcanoes
Auckland, I have learnt, is a city built on no less than fifty volcanoes, not all of which are dormant. This means two things. One, that I could get blown into tiny lava covered pieces of myself at any moment, and two, that there is some excellent hilly walking to be done. We set off, therefore, with the aim of conquering at least one of these volcanic cones (they aren’t … [Read more...]