Caffea Moguntia Caffee Monguntia Moguntia Kaffeerösterei changes its name so often, I have difficulty keeping up. The same with their recent intern Svenya, pictured here. If we hadn’t drifted by…
in the big city. Kapuzinerstrasse.
Not really my tasse de thé as one says around here, but I’m sure this delightful example of decadence (Kevlar with real diamonds, I’m told…) will just fly off the…
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 down to Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune Zwei (which opened during my sabbatical) in the Gaustrasse today. Just a STUNNING double espresso – so much intense flavour and not a…
It also melts. Very slowly
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…
My friend Alan Houghton (and married to my surrogate kid sister, Robby) is the proud owner of Raindance, a 30′ wood hulled cabin cruiser built in 1928. We went for…
Sod this for a game of soldiers – first day back from vacation, middle of March, forsythia’s normally blossoming and I’m shovelling WET SNOW? It’s time I left again…
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.
Jane Evans was an immensely talented Nelson artist who died last year. Much too young. The obituary in the Nelson Mail hints at her influence and talent. Her cottage in…
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
…from the cloudless blue skies we’ve been having for the past 2 weeks. Still between 20°-25•C though…
….where are the bloody kina?
Charmaine “Char” Jack is a director of Edito, a design store on the fringe of Nelson’s CDB featuring an eclectic mix of antique and contemporary furniture and accessories. Also recognised…
Stag’s skull. Water tanks Windmill. Rural Nelson
….how come I’ve yet to the sight the eponymous creature, but constantly keep tripping over reverse-engineered crabs on the beach?
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…
Not a spare chair to be found at the Playhouse Café and Theatre in Mapua last night for The Eastern’s gig, Except – being Mapua which is “country” (as in…
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…
…we have hairdressers sprinkled around the globe. I have Chantelle at Zoom in Mapua, Yilmaz in Mainz and Ms jb for in between. Ms jb has Brunhilde (I think…) in…
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…
Jess and Bonnie, the 2 black labs at the cottage we’re renting, smell food through sealed packaging at 300 metres. I swear.
Monsignor Klaus Mayer, my luncheon companion of the other day, is having his 90th birthday celebrated for him in style with a concert in his honour in the Stephanskirche this…
It all started with a group of artists in Tasman, a small village 30km from Nelson, with Steve Fullmer, internationally acclaimed ceramicist (I have the honour of doing his website…
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