I’ve been meaning to write this blog for ever so long! I think I was in such awe since visiting Raglan’s Xtreme Waste Works three years...

You know the saying….feed a starving man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime…..well,...

Love. noun – a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. – a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as...

July is Plastic-Free Month. Focussed on getting people to be aware of all the single use plastic we use, and aimed at reducing the amount...

Still can’t believe our good fortune! We have friends who actually live in Fiji! Yeah! Some people have all the luck! Sunshine pretty...

I have always wondered about communal living. Not too sure I could actually live in a commune but the aspect of shared work and reward...

Blue skies, swaying palms, golden sands, warm sunshine… We like to travel. Particularly to tropical destinations. We love Vitamin D –...

Travel Tips: I run workshops on Living Sustainably. I LOVE to share ideas, hints and tips and get excited when someone says that they...

Sometimes we take the beauty of the area we live in, for granted! A couple of weeks ago, we were reminded of that beauty, enough to take...

A Photographic Stroll around the Mount Tuesday, 3 June 2014 (yep, it was 3 years ago!) We celebrated a beautiful Winter’s day with a...

The Dreaming Stone What a beautiful place the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand is! The Bay of Plenty Beauty! I took some visitors to Te...

What a brilliant Marae! Te Uru Taumatua near Whakatane. Well worth the visit! It’s a Maori Meeting House of Incredible Sustainability...

Katikati, Western Bay of Plenty. Between Waihi and Tauranga. A little town 2 1/2 hours south of Auckland. Lying nestled between the...

Photo Bombing; when someone is having a photo taken and you burst in on the scene. Captured forever on someone else’s photograph....

They came, they saw, they conquered. The Romans, that is, in Africa! Walking up to Volubilis near Meknes, Moroccco, one might be...

It sounds Russian. Sergovia. Before coming to Spain, I’d never even heard its name before, but it is one of the oldest cities in Spain!...

What a culture shock! Overcoming jet lag of 2 whole days travel from New Zealand via Melbourne and Dubai, we are currently living in one...

Hola from Madrid! We arrived bleary-eyed and comatose jet-lagged yesterday, after 3full days travelling via Dubai, to stay with our...

Welcome! Come on in…. We have been visiting the Hamilton Gardens over a decade or more and never cease to wonder in awe and amazement at...

Small Town New Zealand! Sometimes we just don’t stop long enough when passing through little towns, to discover their own piece of magic....