Life in NZ – The First 10 Years (2006 to 2016)

For those of you wanting to know what kinds of temperatures we’re experiencing or when to plan for your visit, bookmark this link to Christchurch weather. Temperatures are reported in Fahrenheit so as not to confuse those of us not used to the metric system. The average temperatures for Christchurch […]

A lot of folks ask what the emigration process was like for us. The following is a timeline of events, starting with our hiring of an immigration consultant, Immigration Law Advocates, in April 2005. While we’d heard it was fairly easy to go through the emigration channels oneself, we elected […]

From the time we started talking about this move about a year and a half ago, the word faith has entered and remained a key concept in my vocabulary. This has been an incredible year of change for me; changes in ways that I’ve not been accustomed to. I’ve always […]

Bruce & I have been on an emotional roller coaster the past few days. Ever since our building TIC partners contacted us a few weeks ago to tell us they were leaving and we all agreed in theory it made sense to sell the building (ie, our beloved flat, our […]