51. “Let me act as a man!”

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February 28th 2009

Published: April 19th 2009

We gave this name to the blog because its Maori translation, Whakatane, is the name of a place that we passed through on our 3-day trip to the east coast. The name arises from an 800-yr old tale in which a young woman did the man’s work of steering a huge Maori canoe to shore, thereby saving everyone from great peril at sea... (N) At the start of the month, I had a company conference on nearby ... Read Full Entry

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Paula & Nick Rowlands

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Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way! Nick - these are a couple of quotations that I picked up along the way: "In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, s... full info

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