Category Archives: travel

Off to New Zealand!

I’m flying out to Auckland, to the LIANZA conference, tonight! I have never experienced a powhiri (pdf) before, and am quite looking forward to it.  Take a look at this introduction if you want to see what a powhiri is. I hope to blog my impressions of Auckland and thoughts about any ideas and whatever [...]

Spot the dodo…

Spot the dodo… Originally uploaded by Constance Wiebrands. So we’re home again and have been for over a week now. Ten things learned this trip: 1. It is possible to go overseas, for a month, with only hand luggage. We learned a fair bit about European laundromats (they’re just as grotty as Australian ones). Also, [...]

Photographic evidence

We (well, mainly M) took some 1500 photos during the trip. I’ve started to put some of them up on Flickr. So far I’ve only done England and some of Paris, and I haven’t completed all the descriptions as yet. Feel free to have a squiz and leave comments and questions. Yes, we’re home now. [...]