Art and Abart

A couple of days without coffee means I am really enjoying the excellent coffee at a little warehouse type coffee shop called Emporio Cafe i...

Today is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, and a public holiday. It is day 6 of the music festival and I am pacing myself, staving off exhaustion...

On a clear day, a flight from Wellington to Nelson offers wonderful views of the terrain below. The plane is small and flies low enough for ...

The most tranquil of water will turn into a torrent if you force it through a narrow enough channel and so it is with placid Lake Taupo whic...

New Plymouth is an interesting place. It has a wonderful coastline, perched at the eastern tip of New Zealand's North Island but the t...

A random paper blowing down the street turned out to be the NZ Evening Post from 1977.

View from Point Clare I joined my local art group for a paint-out today but it had been so long since I had used my portable painting k...

I was in Napier last week for Verdi's Requiem. "Lovely building this", I said to the bank teller. "Yes, we get a lot of...