Art and Abart

The tourist information service in Turangi told me not to travel too early when I took the route from Turangi to Tauramanui as the road had ...

Lake Taupo is where I spent my childhood holidays so Io can never drive past without remembering the swimming, fishing, cousins (we shared a...

View over the southern Lake Taupo, Turangi just to the right Fishing the Tongariro River at Turangi Turangi is much warmer than furt...

The snow over the past week has closed a lot of roads including the desert roasd, but by Friday it was open. I had a last coffee at Soul C...

Tea at Soul It is hard to choose a favourite cafe in Taihape because there are three excellent cafes in town but the cafe I particularly...

Giant gumboot in Taihape Taihape has made it's name as gumboot capital of the world with a giant corrugated iron gumboot sculpture a...

Sign on a shop door in Taihape ' I must have been mad to come at the coldest time of the year', I thought to myself as I drove ...

Converging highways in Bulls Travelling north from Wellington you drive past the several coastal towns of the Kapiti Coast, then along ...

Wellington, NZ Wellington was cold this morning as I drove through the city glass and concrete. It was both cold and windy, though not a...

Christiana Libor Christiana Libor has a voice like honey and listening to her sing soothed Wellington concertgoers on Saturday evening. ...

Will I go or wont I; will I go or ...

Have you ever heard Nessun Dorma sung to the tune of Funiculì, Funiculà ? No? Well people who attended the Roberto Alagna concert at the S...

You wouldn't think that someone suffering from a high level of cerebral palsy would be able to play a music instrument would you? Nor wo...

Impassioned, fun, fabulous, mesmerizing. Yes, all of those things describe the Sequenza Italiana concert given by musicians of the Austr...

I had an experience today that I find very difficult to describe.  It was a drab old day in Sydney, not cold but with lowering clouds a...

In the 1970/80s I lived in Germany and suffered culture shock. I learned the language quickly but a culture is much more than its language a...

Sunset today Who can resist them, beautiful sunsets? The sunset this evening was a stunner, with the gods shining a red torch on the u...

Those with more education vote to stay (Guardian newspaper) The Scots have a very long tradition of respect for education, believing tha...

They Brexited and everyone seems to be in a state of shock, though I don't know why. It seems to me that the British people have been sk...

The woman in the seat next to me at the Australia Piano Quartet concert at the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room yesterday was reduced to tear...