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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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. […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
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 […]
Also posted in New Zealand |
After a good night’s sleep recovering from the exertions of the Milford Track, we today drove south to a “farmstay” east of Invercargill in the “Southland.” The first third of the most direct route, would have retraced half of the drive to Te Anu, which we had just done twice, so we elected to head […]
Also posted in New Zealand |