Day three of the road trip and we revisit Eastwoodhill
Our revised road trip includes a revisit to Eastwoodhill. And I attempt the impossible.
The road trip! It’s day two, part two, and we’re at C Company House.
C Company House tells the story of loss and sacrifice with aroha.
It’s a road trip – day two
We discover, not for the first time, that we are easily sidetracked.
It’s a revised road trip – day one.
Our luck changes and I revisit the beach of my childhood.
Home through the boondocks – a photo log
The long road home from Gisborne to Napier takes you through the boondocks. Tiniroto Road, also known as the Inland Road, between Gisborne and Wairoa is almost as far off the beaten track as it’s possible to get in New Zealand without going off road. It’s 104km of […]
Eastwoodhill – a tree lover’s sanctuary
Never heard of Douglas Cook? Me neither. Or at least not until I visited Eastwoodhill, the arboretum he established between the 1930s and 1960s. Cook was a little eccentric for his times. Gardening in the nude and reciting poetry, as well as loving trees, weren’t the usual preoccupations of […]
Summer comes early in Gisborne
Gisborne. Where the surf rolls in and the surfies are always out, where the sun shines and the beaches are sandy. And where, the summer I was five, I stubbed my toe in a headlong rush across the road to get to the water. It was a beauty […]
Jill's Scene 
The korero