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The joy of traveling by myself

August 19, 2018 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

I’ve just returned from an overseas trip, and am actually writing this on the plane just a few hours away from Auckland at 11,583 m / 38,010 ft because it’s not the middle of the night as my usual flights, but still day time. As the sun is setting on my last vacation day, I […]

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0 degrees in hot summer

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Who’d have thought you can find a 0 degrees Celcius spot in the heat of summer in Austria? Well actually, we didn’t have to look too far from Salzburg and found it in the Eisriesenwelt (ice giants world) in Werfen. We were looking for something to do with two children (aged 10 and 13) on […]

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Goodbye 2015 and hello 2016

January 10, 2016 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

The new year is now already over a week old, but I think it’s still OK to post a review of last year. This is a short one in pictures highlighting some of the places I was fortunate to visit in 2015. It was an exciting, joyous, adventurous but also sad year (I’m not going […]

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Stewart Island / Rakiura in photos and videos

December 28, 2014April 12, 2015 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

During my vacation on Stewart Island / Rakiura from 20 to 27 December 2014, I took over 1,200 photos of which I kept roughly 50% and then uploaded about 370 to flickr. You can view them directly there or below in the slideshow. I also took a few videos of weka searching for food (1, […]

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A Local’s Tail and take-off

December 28, 2014 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

The last thing to do on Stewart Island on 27 December 2014 before heading back to Wellington was to watch “A Local’s Tail”, the “quirky 40-minute film about Stewart Island”. It was well worth it, and is the local attraction on the weekly community calendar. The Bunkhouse Theatre, the home of the movie, is a […]

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