Well, first they told me Pluto was a planet, and then they told me it wasn’t, and I was strangely saddened by this. It’s not big enough to be a planet, so it is called a dwarf planet, though apparently
Month: July 2016
Carlingford – County Louth’s Very Own Pot of Gold
I remember a hen party in Carlingford I went to years ago. The theme for the party was fairy-tale characters, and one of our group dressed up as the Wolf from Red Riding Hood. Somehow she got separated from the
Coco Lane – A Pampering Session in Armagh
One of the most exciting things about going back to my home town is seeing how well it is doing. Armagh is a very beautiful city with it’s two cathedrals towering like protective sentinels over this ancient city. There is
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
We had a late-afternoon, direct flight out of Auckland back to California (into SFO not San Jose but close enough!) So we could do one thing in Auckland, just one thing… Go see a volcano (of course-duh!) From Mount Eden
Bay of Islands – My Personal Favorite
The North and South Islands of New Zealand are often compared, many people claiming the South Island is better, but I beg to differ. True the scenery is spectacular on the South Island, but that can be said of the
The Amazing Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand
The Coromandel Peninsula is where the New Zealanders go on vacation. It’s not to far from Auckland and the coastline is spectacular. To get there from Rotarua we had to drive through Middle Earth! You can stop and do some
Holiday Towns in the Rain
Chris de Burgh said it best in his song Fatal Hesitation when he sang, ♫ There’s nothing quite like an out of season holiday town, In the rain, ♫ The weather in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand was awful for
Rain Stops Play
So far on our trip in New Zealand we’d only spent one night in each place (apart from Christchurch.) In the North Island we decided to change that and to stay in fewer spots for longer. This meant that we’d
Playing on Super Volcanoes
Taupo Lake is the caldera of a super volcano. It has produced two of the world’s most violent eruptions in recent times, geologically speaking. It tends to go off every 900 or so years, yet hasn’t done so in 1700
Does the Nocturnal Bird Catch the Glow Worm?
It’s a one hour flight from Christchurch to Auckland in the North Island. Waitomo is only two hours south of Auckland by car so we were able to comfortably push on through to Waitamo without having to spend a night
