Famous Green-Lip Mussels ...

... New Zealand is known for them, but we weren't blown away - huge but chewy, they weren't like the more tender ones we normally prefer. Perhaps also a bit too simple, with garlic and white wine the only seasonings. The accompanying grilled baguette was pretty stellar, and overshadowed the mussels a bit.

Journey to Middle Earth

December 20th 2015
Geo: -41.2929, 174.006Traveling around the Earth has, to be brutally honest, gotten a little bit boring - so where to travel to next, once this happens? A flight to outer space? Nah - way too expensive, and it also seems far too gimmicky, paying all that money to take a glorified flight, albeit to a much higher altitude. There can be only one place to go - to Middle Earth, of course! The land of ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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