Today, we had to say goodbye to Taylor at Christchurch. She flew from there to Auckland where she planned to have dinner at a great restaurant with a friend from Culinary School, and then leave at 7 AM the next morning for New York. We know that she made it safely to the states, but […]
Leaving Dunedin, we drove up into Central Otago. The last three days in Dunedin had been rainy and gray, so we were heartened to see blue sky as we loaded the car. However, as soon as we climbed out of Dunedin onto the Otago plateau we found ourselves in heavy fog. Our plan was to […]
Amazingly, in seemingly no time it was the start of our last week in Dunedin. We had decided early on in our stay to host a “thank you” party at a local pizza bar called Filadelphios for Liz, her family, and the students in her lab, who had all contributed to the success of our […]
Liz Franz, who was Ted’s host at the University of Otago, her husband Mike, and their son Matai have a wonderful house on 23 acres of land near the opening of the Otago Harbor. Liz bought this property, which was a hillside sheep pasture with a small cottage and woolshed, soon after she immigrated to […]
Since coming to Dunedin, we have taken a number of small trips on the weekends. Both Saturdays, we have gone to the Dunedin Farmers’ Market. The first Saturday it was raining, but the second was better. The Market is very good; it doesn’t have as many stalls as the Irvine market, but it has more […]
Our excuse for being in New Zealand is the month that I am spending visiting with my colleague Liz Franz who is in the Psychology Department at the University of Otago. It is a good time for me, because I have no responsibilities (to teach or otherwise), and out-of-sight, out-of-mind seems to describe my interactions […]
Yesterday being Sunday, we decided to attend a service at St. Paul’s, the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin. This was especially fun today because it was Commonwealth Day, so, in addition to the singing of a small, but wonderful mixed, adult choir, we were treated the congregation singing “God Save the Queen,” the reading of the […]
If you have been following this blog, you know that there has been a 5-day hiatus in the posts. In part that is because I had gotten up to where we had finished the interesting, initial part of our trip and were settling into a month of work in Dunedin. Also, however, I expected that […]
Discerning that we liked gardens, because we were interested in their garden, Helen and Graeme suggested that we visit a large, private local garden called Maple Glen. It is about 40 km from their farm on the other side of Matuara River. I was amazed how the landscape changed from one side to the other. […]
News Flash: The events described below happened over a week ago. However, today Taylor and Haywood arrived in Auckland after a journey of over 30 hours from New York. They plan to spend ten days touring the North Island on their own. It will then take them another 2 days to make their way to […]