…Mainz in gloom. My mate Houghton – connoisseur, master mariner, nautical historian and surrogate bro-in-law – who lives in Devo(nport), a village suburb of Auckland in New Zealand takes great…
..says Sid, guest photog Ute Matchke‘s hound. “Finally” says jb. Wednesday instead of Monday, last seat on Thai to Bangkok NottheNelsonDailyPhoto.com takes over from here in a day or so.…
Being forced to sit in the Porter House, an Irish pub in Mainz, drinking Guinness and watching the Rugby World Cup game NZL vs ARG on a big flat screen…
In New Zealand, there’s no greater achievement. Once you’ve played for the national Rugby team, it’s not “Oh, he used to be an All Black”, it’s “He’s an All Black”…
Bloody Germans, using “Haka” as a registered trademark. Not only is it a knock-off of Ha-Ra (the original micro-fibre cleaning concept), but they’ve usurped the Maori traditional ancestral war cry,…
Newly knighted Sir “just call me” John Hood is a past Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, the current chairman of the Rhodes Trust and a Westlaker. Which is what we…
Microbreweries, ramp up the production. Boston, here I come..
…we say “Farewell” to Mainz, Germany For a bit. Join us at (Not the)Nelson Daily Photo….
….Mainz. Paul Bonna, the proprietor of the excellent (but currently dormant) Kaffeekommune in the Gaustrasse used to work as a barista at the Rapha Cycle Club in Brewer Street, Soho.…
At the “The figure, sculpture in ceramics” exhibition in Höhr-Grenzhausen. OK, it’s not strictly Mainz, but not everything’s black and white….
Departure lounge, Tom Bradley Terminal
Look who I stumbled on by – ahem – pure chance at the Hardware Cafe in Titirangi on the way to the airport – Paul of Auckland West fame and…
Rocked down to an exhibition at Galerie Metzger in Johannesburg on the weekend…er…Johannesberg, about an hour’s drive. Excellent gallery, currently featuring some very good ceramics from some artists we know…
….(and I promise to return Mayence real soon Julie….) This is the Restaurant de la Gare de Bonnieux. 3 course lunch with a glass of wine will run you €15.…
I mean, I know there’s the scenery and the wine and the food, but Nathalie who runs Avignon in Photos is also a pretty good reason to visit Provence. We…
Through accidents of birth and abduction, resulting in forced emigration at an early age, I have 2 passports. The UK side of the family dates back to the 1600s, so…
I did what I could to keep my young friend Lena on the tracks, but to no avail. Here she is, barely 26, drinking, smoking, studying LAW, of all things…
Rocked on over to The Fat Tui at Marahau the other week with Steve and Robin Fullmer. (Steve asks “Now, do you want to go the inneresting way or the…
The view from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. As cold as it looks….
I can highly recommend Manuka Island eco cottage, at the end of a 1km long private road that goes over a bridge and a causeway right to the edge of…
Footwear is frequently jandals (as documented by the pale chevron on this chappy’s feet). Or nothing at all.
Even the stormwater drain manhole covers aren’t safe from these arty types.
The Mussel Inn at Onekaka in Golden Bay is a classic. They brew beer from manuka (or tea tree). When you visit, you’ll see mobile phones nailed to the veranda…
American Indians appear to have established a beachhead on Rabbit Island. They’re probably off looking for scalps with which to cover their teepee. Follically challenged as I am, I have…
This place is terrific. Run by Nicola Cantrick, (r) formerly at the Suter Gallery Cafe (who reckoned that Ms jb looked “too exotic for Nelson”) and baristeuse Sandy di Scianni…
…. before this chappy (paper wasp, methinks) finally works his way though the roof support and the whole shebang comes crashing down
….where are the bloody kina?
At some stage, this sign appears to have been 7 km (or miles, even?) from the beach on Rabbit Island. The icecaps have obviously melted to such an extent that…
Vivienne Fox has been a star in Nelson’s culinary night sky for as long as I can remember. She and her husband Tom opened the Apple Shed cafe/bar/restaurant in late…
On the coast road from Christchurch to Nelson via Blenheim, you’ll come across Kaikoura, New Zealand’s centre of whale=watching and the best place to get rock lobster (or crayfish, as…
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