What a wonderful day! Couldn’t have been any better.5Half way to the bus station, I went into the Pathway of Pounamu, a locamuseum. Pounamu is the maori name for greenstone, jade. In New Zealand it is only found in three places, one of them is the Westcoast. The museum shows how the maori community lifed […]
Today, I took the train from Christchurch to the Westcoast, to Greymouth: the Trans Alpine Crossing. In the train, I shared a table with a couple from the Southlands and a guy from New York City. Next to us were Americans and a lady from the US who lives and teaches in Xian. We talked […]
Leaving Kaikoura felt like approaching a threshold. Something changed. Couldn’t put a finger on it. Just felt the change. In the bus, I sat next to a German young woman, talked about our travels. Seemed, we made some similar choices, and some different once, of course. She told me about het experience confronted with lock […]