New Zealand, Road Trips

It’s Summer – Let’s go for a Roadie to Taranaki

January requires a more concentrated organisation if we are to celebrate our birthdays in style.

Life at No.22, New Zealand, Road Trips

Have you stayed in a Haunted Hotel?

Recently, we had the experience of staying in a place that was once a grand 19th-century hotel. It sits proudly on a hilltop overlooking the Waitomo Caves. It does sound very posh, doesn't it? As it so happens, the Queen's head once lay on a fluffed-up pillow on the first floor in late 1953. Of… Continue reading Have you stayed in a Haunted Hotel?

Family History, Life at No.22, New Zealand, Road Trips

Follow the Golden Weather to Takaka

Aside from the Bay of Plenty, there is another place where the sunshine hours are plentiful with brown sugar-coloured sand beaches.

Life at No.22, New Zealand

Eat like a local: Kai with Soul

Ahhh, food. It is a subject dear to many people's hearts and souls. Especially mine! It brings people together in wonderous and in not so jolly times. Perhaps one feijoa ice-cream at a time. Let me share with you a few snippets about just a few old-style local kai [food] that seems to be still… Continue reading Eat like a local: Kai with Soul