CANADIANS? WHY WERE WE AND HOW DID WE ARRIVE?
I am going to step away from New Zealand for a moment and Post an article about our family history. It has been a long time since I had an opinion piece, and I have now, decided on this one.…
ROUGHING IT ON THE COROMANDEL PENINSULA – 1991
Our next adventure starts on a long weekend near the time of Easter 1991. Deysi had decided that we would tour the Coromandel Peninsula and see all the sights we had heard so much about. This peninsula is on the…
RAMBLING AROUND NEW ZEALAND – SNAPSHOTS OF MY MIND
During our travels around New Zealand we had many great experiences and wonderful times. Some of these I am going to try and describe in this Post. None of them warrant a full Post, on their own, but they have…
CAVING IN NEW ZEALAND, UNIMAGINABLE SIGHTS
One of my earliest memories of New Zealand is of a weekend adventure we had not far from home. As I guess you all are aware, from my previous attempts, at describing some of the times we had, while travelling…
FINALLY WE MOVED INTO NEW ZEALAND FALL1990
We arrived! Finally we are going to see what the hype is all about. Geezus 4 million kiwis and 16 million sheep can’t be all that much fun, can it? We were assigned to the revamp of a pulp and…
VIDEO – SWAZILAND VACATION AND ANOTHER SUN HOTEL
I promise that this is the second last one from Africa. I am even getting on my own nerve. However, if I do not publish these videos someplace they will be lost forever. Even though the quality is poor, I…
VIDEO – GARDEN ROUTE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE WHALES 1989
This video shows a little bit of our trip from Cape Town along the Garden Route on the Indian Ocean to Port Elizabeth. We had rented a vehicle and were just making a tour along the coast. When we finished…
VIDEO – BLUE TRAIN TO CAPE TOWN – AFRICA’S ORIENT EXPRESS
I know, I know I said I was almost done with videos. Again this is an edited version of a much more boring video. My god, I felt like snoozing (and I think I did) while editing this. This is…
VIDEO – SEYCHELLES, SAND, SUN, GIRLS AND PIRATES
Yet another video from our time in Africa. This one from the Seychelles while on vacation at the end of 1989 or very beginning of 1990. It is a long home movie, full of adventure. Even cutting it down, it…
VIDEO – MAURITIUS VACATION OFF THE COAST OF AFRICA
Yet another video from Africa. This one is an excerpt from our trip to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, in late 1989. Once again the age and number of times it was transferred to different media formats over the last…