World Travels 6 - Birdsong Retreat

November 7, 2010

Published by Kathy at November 7, 2010

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Destination: Tonga, Oct 20 – Nov 3, 2010

Tropical island holiday coming right up. Destination: Tonga. Why Tonga? It’s the nearest Pacific Island group to New Zealand with less than a three-hour flight from Auckland. Air New Zealand offered really, really cheap tickets ($349 RT from Akl). It’s the first nation to see the start of each day. […]

November 11, 2009

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Destination: USA, October 7 – November 4, 2009

Ah, I’m back a week now from my trip to the States. What a whirlwind trip it was with a quick trip up to Portland and then 2 1/2 weeks in San Francisco where I was given the great gift of witnessing my nieces’ first few weeks of life and […]

August 5, 2009

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Destination: Golden Bay, South Island, July 27 – August 1, 2009

I’d hit my wall a few weeks ago. It’s been a very dismal winter – lots of rain and cold, cold nights. And I’d had enough. It was time for a mid-winter getaway. I needed to go somewhere sunny and relatively inexpensive. I remembered that our friend Purple was minding […]

February 28, 2009

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Destination: Kiwiburn: Whakamaru Domain, February 5 – 8, 2009

Epic. Transitional. Watershed. That is how I would describe Kiwiburn 2009. Whoa. It was big, again, and it was magical, again. Bruce and I took on a lot of projects this year. In addition to The Green Fairy, which we’ve got down to a tee, and the Kostume Korner, which […]