For those reading who’ve stumbled across this post and haven’t read the previous one, give it a quick read first then come back here. It provides context to the following story.
So I’ve just bought my first property with my little egg of savings from my time in Melbourne and now I’m babysitting my infant New Zealand bank account containing $0 and my obese mortgage balance that sucks directly…
For those of you who read the blog way waaaay back in the day, and have a robotically good memory, you may recall that in 2014 I bought a house in New Zealand and in 2015 I bought a second one.
I’m not rich by any stretch, I’ve never been given anything and I’m not even a particularly good saver; but there is a story, and this is how it went down.
Now that I’m back in New Zealand I’m really starting to realize how cultural conditioning really affects even the smallest parts of how we act every day.
One such observation I’ve been making is the distance people stand apart from each other here in New Zealand. I was in line at a cafe this morning waiting to order my coffee, and the distance between everyone waiting was at least 60cm without…
Well it’s Spring Festival and all of my acting students have gone home, so I guess it’s time for me to follow suit.
The planned location for my Springtime revelry is the North Island of New Zealand.
I’m going to fly from my beloved Shanghai back to Middle Earth, pick up a hire car and trek the ring from Auckland to Palmerston North. (Basically go from top to bottom of the island, give a few…
Tidak hanya Selandia Baru menawarkan beberapa nafas-mengambil, tetapi dengan bepergian dengan mobil, Anda bisa mendapatkan keuntungan dari jalan yang mudah untuk drive; lalu lintas biasanya pada volume rendah, yang semua membantu untuk menambah perjalanan yang sempurna. Jika Anda berencana liburan ke Selandia Baru, pertimbangkan salah satu rute yang menakjubkan berikut.
Yang perlu kamu ketahui…
Tinggal di atau di bawah batas kecepatan legal yang tertera pada tanda-tanda jalan. Kecepatan maksimum pada setiap jalan terbuka adalah 100 km h (62 mph). Kecepatan maksimum di daerah perkotaan adalah 50 km h (31 mph).
Driver dan penumpang harus memakai sabuk pengaman atau pengekangan anak setiap saat, di kedua kursi depan dan belakang.
Signposting berikut simbol standar internasional dan semua jarak dalam kilometer (km).
Ini adalah ilegal untuk lulus mobil lain di mana ada garis kuning bukan garis putih menandai tengah jalan. Garis kuning menunjukkan bahwa itu terlalu berbahaya untuk menyalip.
Photo cred goes to my sister Gail. She took this pic of these dogs, in New Zealand, waiting their turn to work the sheep. They obviously love their job!
Ronnie van Hout’s “Quasi” sculpture, commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand, is a big gigantic hand atop the building. And it looks like David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
