What does a “housemade flowered granola” contain, you might wonder? According to the menu, ingredients include oats, nuts, yoghurt, seasonal fruit (today it’s kiwi, strawberries and some citrus), coconut, super berry leather (which is something dark and sinister that comes out of a dehydrator but … Continue readingGive me one with everything
We are such tourists, we tell ourselves. We’ve been to the highest Starbucks in the world, in Cusco, Peru. This was entirely by accident; we were in the city of Cusco because it’s where everyone stopped at, right before they headed to Machu Picchu. We … Continue readingLimited time only
It’s the end of the world. We’ve been here before though we’ve never been here. Both statements can be true when more than one place – be it a town or a city, a port or a signpost – claim to be the end of … Continue readingIt’s the end of the world
We fell asleep to the sound of ocean waves crashing softly on the shore. The lullaby of Porpoise Bay. When we wake, the sun has already risen but not by much. It isn’t harsh yet. The air is chilly, the breeze gentle. We wander out … Continue readingThe Trojan’s dolphins
The ocean is vast, hypnotic and terrifying in equal measure. We see plenty of it whilst travelling in New Zealand. The country has 15,000 kilometres of coastline, hemmed in by the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean. That’s a lot of water. But thunderous and … Continue readingGhost of a forest
We turn into a side road off the Owaka-Invercargill Highway. The GPS has been serving us well thus far this trip so we have no fear it will drop us into another river, the way it did five years ago. Soon we spot a small … Continue readingPūrākaunui Falls