Melbourne: Nellie Melba and a Flat White
at one of Melbourne’s beaches Opera diva Nellie Melba (1861-1931), née Helen Porter Mitchell, changed her name to honor the city of...
Mal de Mermaid
With my anti-motion sickness pressure point wristbands and a couple Dramamine, I weathered the Roaring Forties without mishap. Others...
The Antipodean Eden
Dunedin — Celtic for Edinburgh — means ‘Eden among the hills.’ They got that right. We’d been in New Zealand for 8 days and, though we...
Name that Cloud
I hope you’ve all been following the Comments with your ‘votes’ in the latest Name that Cloud competition. I look out my stateroom...
Plucky, Resiliant Christchurch NZ
In 2010, Christchurch suffered a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. But it was the 6.3 quake six months later in February 2011 that leveled much...
Not so Well-ington (NZ)
In the Norwood Rose Garden within the Wellington Botanical Garden. The roses at Fuller Garden in Rye, NH, are just as good. Some have...
Name that Cloud!
OK. I copped out yesterday. There were two photos as we whizzed past Napier. One of you asked, How rough was it? We had been skirting the...
I’m on vacation.
Due to high winds and rough seas, Napier, NZ, was cancelled. So I have nothing to report!
Nau mai haere mai ki Tauranga
Haere Mai — Welcome — to the little town of Bethlehem, next door to Tauranga (still in New Zealand). I’d heard of most every other port...
Twenty-seven swans aswimming with ‘the maiden sought by a hundred lovers’*
New Zealand: Day 3, Auckland, Part 2 *The original Mãori name for the city We overnighted at the dock in Auckland and had most of a...
