Has it been a year already?
A year. I can’t believe it has been over a year. Never before a year has gone by so fast as 2016. It seems like yesterday that we left;...
Community spirit
A couple of days ago when I returned from my walk I was stopped by a farmer on Cames Road who asked me if I was looking for my cows....
A remarkable woman
On the morning of the 18th of March, through our locals Facebook group, we found out that an orca had been stranded on our local beach....
Oh oh the places we go
And so we are settling into daily life here in Mangawhai. School has started on a Wednesday so the first week was nice and short. We had...
Settling, surfing and safari's
And another week (and a half) has gone by. Time seems to fly here, even more so than it did in Holland, it seems. After settling into our...
We made it!
Our first week in NZ is now a fact. We are staying in a nice cottage in Mangawhai (with the blue windows), overlooking some hills behind...
