New Zealand: Hop Harvest 2021
The mornings grow darker with autumn’s approach. I step out of the van in to the cold air. Light glows around the edge of the curtains of the two caravans […]
New Zealand: Kentishman Hops
I tell myself a lie. I don’t need an alarm. The truth is I am an early riser. I wake up at 6:42am. Did I wake up naturally or did […]
New Zealand: Motueka
I returned to Nelson under the impression I had approximately one week to sort my life out. In the car park on the edge of town emergency sirens began to […]
New Zealand: The Travers-Sabine Circuit
There was nothing left to do but drive, so I did. Around the outskirts of Christchurch, over Lewis Pass. The rain caught up with me, hitching a ride all the […]
New Zealand: Aoraki-Mount Cook
Having left Fiordland in the rearview mirror I began my crawl North. I had another one of those nights where I wake up and have no idea where I am. […]
New Zealand: Fiordland
On the Routeburn Track, stuck in Routeburn Falls Hut, Hut Warden John had given me some suggestions. “On a dry day,” he said “take your tent up on Gertrude Saddle […]
New Zealand: The Milford Track
The flashing lights of an ambulance approach from the far end of the road. The flashing lights are never an ambulance. There are two pilot vehicles flagging the traffic down. […]
New Zealand: The Routeburn-Caples
What can I do? Keep going. Squeezing out as much adventure as possible. After a day of rest at Lowburn Harbour I have a day in hand to prepare for […]
New Zealand: Liverpool Hut
For the first time overnight I find the van is too hot. Having sat in the sun for four days, with little time for the doors and windows to be […]
New Zealand: The Gillespie Pass
Wanaka then. Being a sunny Sunday in the summer holidays is full of people. No matter, I have more chores to do than I have time to spend trying to […]
