I’m sitting in a little coffee shop in Christchurch, across the street from the eponymous Cathedral.
Month: February 2006
How to Order a Coffee in New Zealand (and Other Observations)
New Zealand seems to have much more of a cafe culture than Australia. Dunedin, for instance, is dotted with cool, funky little coffee shops and every town seems to have a few.
A Tide With Artistic Aspirations
On the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island lie The Catlins, a beautiful and remote landscape of beaches, cliffs, forests and millions of sheep.
South of the 45th
I’m in the town of Invergargil now, on the very southern tip of South Island, and it really does feel pretty far south. The evening are long and the weather is a chilly 13 degrees with a pounding five-minute rain storm approximately once an hour.
In the Land of Sheep and Uruk-Hai
The kiwis are funny and friendly, the weather is beautiful, and orc attacks are, at worst, infrequent.I’m in the little city of Dunedin right now, which is a mixture of modern and Victorian architecture built on a series of hills leads to a cliff-edged peninsula of rolling sheep pastures and little towns that look like they’ve barely changed in sixty years or longer…. We visited a Victorian castle (Larnach Castle) and then went on a tour of the breeding grounds of the rare Yellow-Eyed Penguin.