Posts Tagged "New Zealand"
Last New Zealand-related entry, I swear
Maybe y’all aren’t sick of hearing about New Zealand, but I’m sick of posting about it! I just wanted to show you some of the gorgeous things I brought back. First, some ceramics. I loved the colors in this little dish and the red inside of these mugs is extremely vibrant and happened to match. I bought these in a lovely little ceramics shop in Nelson. Between the 50 million sheep and my knitting habit, y’all KNOW I bought some yarn. I’ll put notes of what each one is in Flickr, so click the picture to go see. I have a lot of knitting to do! And finally, a gorgeous bowl made from Rimu (native NZ wood) that I bought from Yvonne and her...
Read MoreFinal Days in New Zealand!
We arrived in Auckland and had a full day and a half to see some sights before heading back home. By this point Mom was exhausted from doing 28 presentations in 9 days, and as much as I loved New Zealand, I was so ready to be back in my own house and was missing Jimmy and Kyla like crazy. Still, we managed to pack a ton of activities into our final days. Mom’s friend Sarah from the conference picked us up and drove us out to her house, which was situated on a cliff overlooking an estuary. She had a gorgeous, enviable view and as we sat on her deck eating some delicious snacks, we got to watch parrots (actual PARROTS) fly around her yard. Crazy. After we sat...
Read MoreGraffiti in New Zealand
Well you know I am on the lookout for graffiti every time I travel, and New Zealand was no exception. I have to say, I was pretty disappointed that it doesn’t seem like a big scene over there. To be fair, I did see some nice pieces on my last day in Auckland as we were driving past some railroad tracks, but other than that and other than stencils, this first photo is very typical of most of what I saw. The handstyles in Auckland reminded me of Philly’s, if you squished them a little bit (all these pictures were taken in Wellington). I saw quite a few stencils though, and most of them were pretty cool. There were also lots of little wheatpaste stickers (and...
Read MoreNew Plymouth, New Zealand
By the time we got to New Plymouth, I was pretty exhausted from walking literally miles each and every day, and had pretty much decided to lounge around the hotel pool and read a book, since we had less than a day there as well. But Heidi, one of the coordinators at the conference, suggested I go down and check out the coastal walkway. The walk down to it wasn’t pleasant, but I’m so glad I went, it was stunning. I finally made my way down the cliff to the concrete walkway, and headed down toward the city center, where there was a large museum and I was told I could score some food. The water was a gorgeous shade of teal green, and the sun was sparkling...
Read MorePalmerston North, New Zealand
We rode to Palmerston North with the conference team. It was a pleasant drive through the mountains to our destination, which is a town with a population around 75,000. We had less than a day there before we had to head out to the next city, but I still got to see plenty. I met a terrific lady named Yvonne through the Pattern Review messageboards, and she was kind enough to show me around. We had coffee in a small cafe, then hit up a knitting and fabric store. We drove around the city and saw some of the local sights, then she took me out to a wind farm. You really have no concept how huge these turbines are until you get underneath one. Oh, and the tiny white dots on...
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