57. What life is this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare

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July 15th 2009

Published: December 5th 2009

(N) By the start of July, we had both stopped working, as our visas had expired. We spent the first day of the month cleaning and packing up the flat into boxes, throwing some warm clothes into a couple of smaller cases because the next morning was my birthday and we were flying down to Christchurch to start on the 2nd part of our South Island trip. You know you’re getting old when…the firs... 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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Town Centre, Invercargill, South Island

Motorcycle from the Film 'The World's Fastest Indian'

The film is the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, played by Anthony Hopkins in 2005, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle, a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.