The family once did a nighttime tour of haunted buildings in Dunedin. The person that took us around was a masterful story teller, and so a seemingly innocuous tourism event is still being talked and shrieked about in our household. For what it's worth, I wasn't scared even a tiny bit, but I loved every moment of it.
My own tourim adventure will be driving tourists backwards and forwards through the Mount Victoria tunnel while tooting the horn to scare off the ghost of the woman allegedly buried at the eastern end. I don't care if the tourists like it or not - I'll have a bloody great time!
This episode of MTAF is so good I had to share it. These are the issues that should be front and centre for this election. Its the environment stupid! Won't mind paying for future doses of your insights in the near future.
Not all stories must be told. Some seem more memorable if discovered. Like the framed circa 1943 photograph I found mounted at eye level on a building at the the corner of a lane in the Old Town on Malta in 1998. It shows a statue of Mary standing untouched, with the rubble and wreckage of the bombed wall and nearby buildings surrounding it and lapping up against the pedestal. As I looked away and in the direction I was to continue walking, there was that very statue. I had to turn back and examine the picture again and then the statue itself, and wonder at how it was so unscathed. Not religious, but was definitely awed at the random luck of it all. Thanks for bring that memory bubbling back to the surface.
p.s. Dress on the right but consider self to be a left-leaning swing voter, having previously ticked Labour (mostly), National (a few), and even NZ1st (a couple). Current shower are definitely swinging me hard left. It's always about which policies are best for tomorrow's people.
I can’t recommend highly enough Tamaki Hikoi’s Dane Tumahai - part of Ngati Whatua o Orakei. Tours are ckosed for COVID but every Aucklander needs to know Ngati Whatua’s stories
Great writing and I like some of your ideas. Especially the one a few days ago of refurbishing the innercity redundant office space as apartments, managed by a non profit non commercial body....
I come from Kaikohe which has its travails and for most travellers has been a rest stop between the Bay of Islands and Hokianga. But it has so many stories. Keith Stewart, a son of the town, wrote about the place. Proud writing. He said that if Kaikohe was in England or the eastern US it would be one of those historic towns that people would flock to. Tell those stories I say.
The family once did a nighttime tour of haunted buildings in Dunedin. The person that took us around was a masterful story teller, and so a seemingly innocuous tourism event is still being talked and shrieked about in our household. For what it's worth, I wasn't scared even a tiny bit, but I loved every moment of it.
My own tourim adventure will be driving tourists backwards and forwards through the Mount Victoria tunnel while tooting the horn to scare off the ghost of the woman allegedly buried at the eastern end. I don't care if the tourists like it or not - I'll have a bloody great time!
This episode of MTAF is so good I had to share it. These are the issues that should be front and centre for this election. Its the environment stupid! Won't mind paying for future doses of your insights in the near future.
Not all stories must be told. Some seem more memorable if discovered. Like the framed circa 1943 photograph I found mounted at eye level on a building at the the corner of a lane in the Old Town on Malta in 1998. It shows a statue of Mary standing untouched, with the rubble and wreckage of the bombed wall and nearby buildings surrounding it and lapping up against the pedestal. As I looked away and in the direction I was to continue walking, there was that very statue. I had to turn back and examine the picture again and then the statue itself, and wonder at how it was so unscathed. Not religious, but was definitely awed at the random luck of it all. Thanks for bring that memory bubbling back to the surface.
p.s. Dress on the right but consider self to be a left-leaning swing voter, having previously ticked Labour (mostly), National (a few), and even NZ1st (a couple). Current shower are definitely swinging me hard left. It's always about which policies are best for tomorrow's people.
We want stories. We want connection and depth. And best of all, we want to go home and share those stories with our people.
I can’t recommend highly enough Tamaki Hikoi’s Dane Tumahai - part of Ngati Whatua o Orakei. Tours are ckosed for COVID but every Aucklander needs to know Ngati Whatua’s stories
Great writing and I like some of your ideas. Especially the one a few days ago of refurbishing the innercity redundant office space as apartments, managed by a non profit non commercial body....
Yes, I will be subscribing!
I come from Kaikohe which has its travails and for most travellers has been a rest stop between the Bay of Islands and Hokianga. But it has so many stories. Keith Stewart, a son of the town, wrote about the place. Proud writing. He said that if Kaikohe was in England or the eastern US it would be one of those historic towns that people would flock to. Tell those stories I say.
Looking forward to subscribing, David. Was feeling like I should be paying!