WRITTEN ON Monday, August 31st, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, photography
South Island, New Zealand, August 2009
What you can’t see: all the other sheep and lambs running around (and away from our car) and our enthusiasm from snapping lots of pictures of them all.
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland
on the 1st of september, kiwiland is celebrating another random acts of kindness (rak) day. of course every day should be rak day (so it’s sorta like xmas, minus santa) but we all know how real life works. on 1st of september, there’s no excuse to not be nice to strangers. Some of the things [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN china, travelling
In deep contrast with the dirty grey smog that covers the city, Beijing’s monuments are filled with bright colours and intricate patterns. I couldn’t stop staring at some of these, even if I couldn’t quite make out what they were supposed to represent. Just one of the layers of art, isn’t it? Knowing what it [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN china, travelling
The first visit to the Great Wall took us to the Badaling section, on our very first day. We flew for nearly 15 hours to get there, dropped our bags at the hotel and headed to the bus station to find the bus that would take us to Badaling. It was Sunday and the busiest [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, August 16th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland
An incredibly scary adventurous way to start the next quarter of century and one more thing crossed out of the bucket list.
* but of course i did. and i was shit scared from seeing all the water below and the bridge’s structure in front of me and the wind blowing. during those 5 seconds that it [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN china, food, photography, travelling
Eating in Beijing
Donghuamen Night Market
Yep, she is holding a snake on a stick. Yep, she wants us to eat it. Nope, of course we didn’t!
Crickets, anyone?
I am all for being adventurous and experiencing other cultures. But I’m also all for staying healthy so you can actually enjoy your trip and bring back good memories of [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN girl stuff, life
One of the 34956th newsletters in my inbox mentions a fitness bootcamp in auckland, starting at 6am of god knows when. the link asks me if i want to attend and i’m hovering the mouse coursor over the RSVP button. Yeah, who am i kidding?
on a sort of related not, i read an interesting article [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, August 9th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland
i’m going skiing for the first time ever!
what that really means is that i’m going to come back from a short trip to the south island with lots of painful memories, a sore bum and a negative level of self-confidence. but whatthehell, i’m going skiing!
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, August 9th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN china, photography, travelling
