The world is your oyster
I’m white and I’m a man and I don’t like oyster. Here is a text about a new friend, about Auckland, about equlaity (or the lack of it) and of course about Portuguese chocolate
Strange familiar
“I don’t know why you’re making such a fuss of going to New Zealand for 10 weeks”, said my friend T. over a farewell beer. “Sometimes we don’t meet up for a whole year, so why don’t you shout me a beer then?!” I was quite proud of the answer I came up with: “Absence…
Log / 30.11.2017 / The substitute city
We are going to be living in “Christchurch Central” for the next few weeks – as opposed to “Christchurch actual”. The two parts of the city seem to be completely cut off from each other. I have already been here for 10 days, but only have a vague idea of how this town works, or…
Log / 29.11.2017 / Around the world in 80 hours*
(* or more accurately: “Around half the world in 37 hours”, but that’s not much of a title!) One million bags of flour We have been in Christchurch for 10 days now, which is a bit late for a description of “first impressions”. But believe me, at the time I was too busy having those…