The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: Maori
Kia Ora days 15 and 16 – mountains of everything
As we drove south from Franz Josef Glacier it became apparent that what the South Island is good at is excess. Mountains, lakes, empty and perfect highways, foliage. Boy does it do foliage and is it green. Like a rainforest … Continue reading
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Tagged fergburger, Franz Josef Glacier, Haas township, kiwi, lake wanake, Maori, moa, New Zealand, possum, Queenstown, Routeburn trail, the world of puzzles, treaty of waitangi, wanake
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Kia Ora days eight and nine – trails and tribe’jubilations
Kia Ora said our guide/driver followed by hey and several other Maori words. Maori means life force and boy did he have that. Fr’instnce on the way back to Central Rotorua he had us singing ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’ … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged 1886, Buried village, Haka, Maori, mount tarawera eruption, New Zealand, pink and white terraces, Rotorua, Tamaki village, Tararewa, Tarawera trail, Te waiora
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