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Christel Jeffs (2012)
[Kaikoura Whale Watching]Domestic ExperienceThree months before we were due to leave, Kristy gave me brain-freeze.“Oww,” I moaned. I had sipped my frappé too fast and now ice was burning through my...
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Kyle X (2012)
[Maori Rock Carvings]Taupo TranceAs the bus was making its way into Taupo, I sent Carrie a text to let her to know to start making her way towards the stop. As it slowed down I stretched my arms out to...
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Amie Broxton - 1 (2012)
[Helensville Vintage Travel Poster]MondayThe first two weeks of my new job is training based in central Auckland, and I live in Helensville. I ask about staff parking only to be told that only managers...
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Amie Broxton - 2 (2012)
Woodhill Forest, Muriwai[photograph: Dave Woodward, at A Bonnetful of Bees]The Thinking PlaceHis eyes filled with tears, his face red and blotchy as my best friend tells me that his dad has passed...
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Review: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)
[Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)]Newby, E. (1958). A short walk in the Hindu Kush. London: Harper Press, 2010.If Eric Newby wasn’t dead, I would write to him and tell him how...
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Sue Wilson (2013)
[Kingseat Hospital]Time Out of PlacePlaces are magnetic, their pull irresistible. Whether it be a happy place, a sad place, the place you met your husband, the streets you wandered as a teenager, where...
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Kate Davis - 1 (2013)
[Cairn Terrier]The Tale Wagging the DogWhen I walked out of the toilet and surveyed the scene in front of me I resigned myself to the fact that I was a bad person and probably going to hell. I hadn’t...
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Kate Davis - 2 (2013)
[Patea Bay, Karikari Peninsula]Tour of DutyI think I might have just lost my fucking mind. People keep reassuring me that it’s all just a normal part of the grieving process. They could be right, but...
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Craig Jack (2013)
[Karioi Lodge (Raglan)]We All Come To Do Something Different ...I remember sitting at a tourism conference listening to our Minister of Tourism give a keynote address. Our newly elected Prime Minister,...
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Lydia Martin (2014)
[Queen Street Shopping]That WednesdayMy Local Travel Story08:04 hoursI’ve never liked Wednesdays, I think to myself as I stand in the cold at Swanson station waiting for the train to arrive. I look at...
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Danny Syme - 1 (2014)
[Family Portrait. Lumbini]A Kathmandu Haircut“Here, baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy, HAIR Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair” - Hair: The MusicalThe significance of hair in...
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Danny Syme - 2 (2014)
[Mim Practising. Kathmandu]Shoulda’ Coulda’ Buddha“My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher” - SocratesAnd so it was, on January...
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[Coney Island]Contents:This is an anthology of original travel stories and reviews contributed by students in Stage Three Travel Writing at Massey University's Albany Campus (Auckland, New Zealand).The...
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Amani Hezam (2015)
[Keep Calm and Wear Hijab]The struggles of a hijabi girlI was scrolling down my contacts, desperately trying to find a mate who would be free and willing to hang out with me. "Nadia! Bingo!"I gave her...
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Lee Weir - 1 (2015)
[Ranui]The Western LineBad things happen to people who lock their cars. At least that’s what my late mother used to say. “Lee, if someone wants to break into your car, they’re going to, end of story....
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Lee Weir - 2 (2015)
[The Killing Tree]The Cambodian HangoverAround three years ago I was working for World Vision New Zealand, and everyone always said “Oh wow, that must be so rewarding”. Well, it wasn’t, at least not up...
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Rochelle Gosling - 1 (2015)
[Red Peaks flag]Red PeaksLast night was the opening of the world cup (rugby I think). This of course was a complete nonevent for me, the anti-fan. I couldn’t think of anything worse than watching men...
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Rochelle Gosling - 2 (2015)
[Beach Resort, India]Waking up at the CopacabanaI had laughed when I was told that India would be cold. “You’ll need to pack warm clothes, lots of jumpers.” I really should have listened, I thought, as...
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Laine Moger (2015)
[Photos by Laine Moger]House Number 2023Nothing bar a lonely black squirrel played on the sidewalk, as I strolled up to house number 2023. The skeletal remains of the roof did little to prevent the...
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Arney Bingham (2015)
[The best of the bunch in west Auckland]Steamed Pork Bun Misery- A Day at Avondale Markets“To market, to market, to buy a penny bun, home again, home again, market is done.”- Songs for the Nursery,...
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Mira Gerges (2015)
[North Shore Hospital]Taharoto and TobaccoThe entire bus ride was spent knotting my earphones tightly, and when the bus stopped in front of the wire fence, the driver gave me a worried smile. I watched...
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Ashneel Prasad (2016)
[RuthAS: Nadi International Airport (1971)]The Boy Who Liked Mango Pickles Too MuchIt started drizzling as soon as the plane landed. Fiji. Again. And this time for a wedding. I’m already dying. The...
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Review: Kathy Goes to Haiti (1978)
[Kathy Acker: Kathy Goes to Haiti (1978 / 1993)]Acker, K. (1978). Kathy Goes to Haiti. In Literal Madness: Three Novels by Kathy Acker. New York: Grove Press, 1994. pp. 1-170.Kathy goes to Haiti, and...
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Maddison Hull (2020)
TVNZ: Coronavirus lockdown (26/3/2020)DrunkWe still greet each other in the morning, ask what we’re watching or reading today, but it’s not like the first week.Then we sat in the lounge, drinking cider...
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Anneliese Tuarau Jones (2020)
The Spinoff: What is a bubble and how does it work? (26/3/2020)Little Bubbles of SpaceThe concept of a home is a foreign one to me.The home itself is not foreign to me. Physically, I have lived in...
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