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New Zealand: Rukumoana

September 19, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

After weeks of being told “after this we’ll be on the windrows,” we finally arrive in the promised land. Flat ground. The slash of branches, cones, and needles has been […]

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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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