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New Zealand: Ohurakura

August 22, 2021by Christoph_Orr 1 Comment

With deepest winter blasting North from Antarctica. The clouds over the hills look like snow. Heavy like blankets with that odd, internal glow. I watch the distant peaks disappear as […]

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New Zealand: Westshore

August 15, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

After work I fall out of the van across the road from the Westshore Holiday Park. I cross the road and walk back past the row of caravans on the […]

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New Zealand: Willowflat

July 18, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

The days blur into one. This is what happens when every day is the same. Time slips by, collapses in on itself. A week, a month, half the season gone. […]

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New Zealand: Mohaka

July 11, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I stand alone in the dark. Cars, pick-ups, other vans drive beyond the drop kerb. Cars come out of the holiday park. Still I wait. I check the time on […]

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New Zealand: The Pine Plantation

June 9, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I stand by the side of the road in the steadily falling rain watching cars, pick up truck and vans drive by. I have no idea what Anial looks like. […]

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Westshore by Dusk

New Zealand: Hawkes Bay

May 30, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I could wake up in a holiday park, on the beach, in a reserve, in a car park. If I woke up in enough different places, could I wake up […]

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Lake Waikaremoana

New Zealand: Lake Waikaremoana

May 16, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I pass through three different shops in Napier as I prepare for the last of the Great Walks; Lake Waikaremoana. I do things differently for the fist time in a […]

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Clifton Road Reserve Sunrise

New Zealand: Cross Country

May 12, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

After almost two months of getting away with it, I have to fill up the water tanks on the van. The sink foams, reminding me I’d only done half a […]

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Taranaki in the Clouds

New Zealand: Around the Mountain (Taranaki)

May 9, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

Anvil headed black clouds sit over the grey sea. The rain is coming. 10 centimetres any time from now. I don’t want to go anyway, so I don’t. Another day […]

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Ruapehu at Dusk

New Zealand: Round the Mountain (Ruapehu)

May 5, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

There is no room in Waihohonu Hut tonight. Nor is there any room four nights from now. Neither way around Ruapehu will work if I leave today. I remain unconvinced […]

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