A Night (and a Day) at the Opera
March 16 & 17, 2019, Sydney, Australia — Fellow solo traveler Dietmar and I dodged the raindrops to attend the Sydney Opera House...


Crossing the Ditch to Sydney, Day 1
March 15, 2019, Sydney, Australia — Going to London, we ‘hop the pond.’ Going to Australia, we ‘cross the ditch’ from New Zealand. The...


Kipling’s ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’: Milford Sound, NZ
5,500-foot Mitre Peak in Milford Sound March 12, 2019, Milford Sound, New Zealand — Leading from the Tasman Sea to what is today the...


Wellington: The Movie Capital of the Southern Hemisphere
March 10, 2019, Wellington, New Zealand — New Zealand was late on the discovery timeline, and the first European settlers didn’t arrive...


Gallery: Night Shots of Auckland
March 7, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand — Before bringing you up to date on Wellington, here’s a gallery of photos I took on ‘Auckland After...


NZ: The Kiwi Countryside
March 7, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand — Half-way: Day 64. Our Shore Excursions director always recommends getting out of port, so, since...


New Zealand: ‘The land of the long white cloud’
March 6, 2019, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand — First of five parts. When the Maori settled here about 700 years ago, they named...

