Camino Santiago finito…
“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”– Paulo Coehlo Facing my demons……
Camino Portuguese – looking back at Golega…
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived” – Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven. Stage 4 Santarem…
Camino Portuguese – wayfinding nightmare and blistering heat…
The Pilgrim’s Guide…John Brierley Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother…
Called back to the Camino…
Last month I was invited to speak on Radio New Zealand’s series, Our Own Odysseys. Friends and followers would have laughed out loud at the title…
Newmarket New Zealand, through my lens…
Behind the camera lens… “People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person…
Brick Bay blog postscript – I own a sheep…
Brick Bay where wine and sculpture unite … Sculpture trail… In this section of my blog I talked about the jersey-clad sheep I had found in…
Brick Bay where wine and sculpture unite …
Given the huge success of my blog Gibbs Farm – take a walk on the wild side I find it really strange that I have neglected…
An unlikely comparison: Jane Austen and the Tea Sisters
It does of course make no sense nor is it sensible to state that my conversation on Saturday with Storm and India, the Tea Sisters stirred…
Steampunk HQ – Oamaru, NZ
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can… begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beautiful words Goethe…but there…
Disconnecting to reconnect…
In this age of social media devices gobbling up every spare nanosecond of our down time our brain is starved of time to disconnect and travel…
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