100 happy days

January 12, 2014

After 30 days of me, Foto Feb, and September Snaps (which are all aaaaages ago) it’s time for another do-something-daily challenge. This time, Nick (my usual partner in crime for these kind of things, and the perfect motivator to keep me going) and I decided to join the #100happydays challenge. Over the course of 100 days, starting tomorrow, we’ll […]

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Twitter Secret Santa – 2013 edition

January 3, 2014

You all know how much I love the NZ Twitter Secret Santa, right? So here’s how it all turned out this year: What we sent As you might remember, we sent out four parcels this year. One from Kai and one from me, plus one each on behalf of the chicken and the cat. Here’s […]

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Twitter Secret Santa

November 30, 2013

Once upon a time – towards the end of 2010 to be precise – a guy called @WebSam floated an idea on Twitter: what if we played secret santa with random strangers, who are only connected through the fact they were on Twitter and in New Zealand? I didn’t know @WebSam at the time, and […]

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Europe 2013 – Essen

November 27, 2013

From Italy we went straight to Essen. That’s where I grew up, and it’s where I met Kai. Once upon a time there was a big games fair in Essen, called SPIEL ’93. It’s where two nice kids met under the most romantic circumstances: one was selling games, the other one was selling popcorn. That’s […]

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Europe 2013 – Pompeii

November 26, 2013

Early 2010 we went to an exhibition about Pompeii at Te Papa. Looking at the exhibits I started to realise how little of Europe I had seen – especially if you keep in mind that I’ve actually lived right in the middle of it for thirty years! Fascinated by the tales of life in Pompeii […]

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Europe 2013 – Rome & the Vatican

November 25, 2013

Italy was amazing, and since we did a day trip to Pompeii, which was the absolute highlight of the whole trip, I’ll need to split this post in two – Pompeii simply deserves its very own page! Rome So let’s start with Rome. We were still traveling with Helen, and I had managed to score […]

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