What are the main themes to share, after traveling for a year around the world and visiting 32 countries? The most obvious point is that travel is one of life’s most important and pleasurable activities. This year we experienced and shared amazing sights, delicious tastes, new stories, the growth and broadening of our perspectives in […]
I have read that some parents will go to great lengths to remain connected to their children once their precious babies reach those dreaded teenage years, but I never really imagined myself as one of those sorts. That is, until I found myself knee-deep in primordial crocodile-infested swamp mud. Carter could not stop grinning; he […]
The car pulls to a stop. A tree with branches stretching almost straight out above us provides shade. Seed pods, rotten fruit and leaves are sprinkled over the dirt. There awaits a man; skin of coffee, curly hair down to the upper back, and dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. Sunglasses hide his eyes. Holding […]
Hello folks! It’s reporter K again! I’m here to tell you about my travels in Australia. Actually my colleagues will be covering most of the sites so I only have one to write about: The Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world. It is 1250 miles long and […]
Penguins come in a surprising range of sizes, but the very cutest is without a doubt the tiny Fairy Penguin. These little guys are the smallest of the bunch, standing only one foot tall and weighing in at just three pounds. The Fairy Penguin, or “Little Blue,” is native to the coastlines of Australia and […]
YEAH, C’MOOON DEMONS! WOOOOOOO! It was The Melbourne Demons versus the Sydney Swans! We were barracking (as the Aussies say) the DEMONS!!!! The Demons are a scrappy team, their fans are generalized as the “shout-out-mistakes-and-comments-while-glugging-beer-and-gobbling-chips” kind of people. But that’s just a few of them. Actually, pretty much everyone was shouting comments, myself included, […]
From Sydney we headed down to Melbourne – Australia’s “other” big city located at the very southern tip of the landmass. It sits at the same latitude as Capetown or Buenos Aires and looks south toward the Tasmanian island and Antarctica. Sydney has a population of 4.5 million and Melbourne is just behind at […]
Sydney was all about catching our breath after the craziness in Japan. We checked into the Shangri-La hotel, where we had the good fortune to be greeted by customer manager extraordinaire Sabina. She heard the story and promptly upgraded us into their Governor’s Suite. This is the size of our Paris apartment, raised to the 34th floor […]
On the behind the scenes tour we get to touch, hold, and feed the animals, and animals in Australia are especially strange. That is because Australia is very hot so the creatures have to adapt themselves in order to survive. We met our guide Paul at ten and said hello to the three other people. […]
THE LESSON We met our friends the Walters: Darin and Alison, and their kids: Oscar (12), Maya (10), and Hugo (5). Today, I was learning how to surf. Darin gave me a lesson on the beach. We used his surfboard on the sand instead of trying in the water. Darin told me several rules: […]
Where is Piggy touring today? Send your answey to me at katherine@365saturdays.org. Last week’s answer: Piggy was in the Haneda Airport after the 9.0 Sendai Earthquake
Here follows the account of Hurlock Pseudonym Bonde, in…..THE GROUP OF EIGHT I was sitting in my lovely office, smoking a burgundy pipe from Melbourne, when I got a call from “N”. “Hurlock, I need you in Rotorua, A.S.A.P.! A plane is booked for 3:45 today, your tickets and boarding pass will be waiting for […]
Our friend Gordon told us that while we were in New Zealand, we better take a moment to enjoy the stars. Not only does New Zealand have clear air and low light pollution, but it is so far south that you get a fabulous view of the southern celestial sky. Our eyes were drawn […]
Every evening a group of New Zealand’s Native tribesmen and woman called the Maori come together to perform. It seemed like a great way to better understand the culture, so we went there Saturday night. It began with a traditional Maori welcome, with Nick from Australia representing our tribe’s chief. He picked up the fern […]
This is the true story of an Englishman who made a New Zealander dig forty-one holes in a hill, sixty years in the future. The Englishman J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Africa and came back to live in England at the age of three. His father and later his mother died of illnesses and he […]
Chop- chop- chop- chop- chop- chop- chop- chop- chop! Our Helicopter lifted off and we were headed to White Island, home of a volcano that acted up every 10-15 years. The last incident was in 2000. We were in the zone. When we landed our pilot gave us each helmets and gas masks! Then we […]
The folks at Treetops are fond of saying “Anything is possible here.” That is a statement that begs to be tested. Can you arrange for local Maori elders to greet us on arrival with a ritual welcoming ceremony? Yes! Can you schedule a helicopter to fly us to an offshore volcano? Yes! Could you make […]
Piggy visited a set from the Lord of the Rings movies. Can you guess where she is on Middle Earth? Email your answer to me at katherine@365saturdays.org!
54New Zealand is a Mecca for outdoor lovers and, while I would never classify myself as a Nature gal, even I couldn’t help but be transported by the lushness and variety of the Great Outdoors quite literally outside my door. Russ, Giles, and I left the lodge at 11:00 am with the stated intention of […]
When we arrived at the hotel on South Island, the first thing we thought was: “is this the right place?” It was a beautiful stretch of land covering 2400 acres, and the only man made thing we could see (besides cars and roads) was a big yellow house. We rang the doorbell and were greeted […]
There are lots of volcanoes in New Zealand. This is the largest active volcano. It is a cone volcano. Can you guess which small island it is on? (Not North Island or South Island those are the two major islands of New Zealand). P.S. I am so sorry! I am really behind on the Piggy […]
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