Freelance journalist & editor, NZ/NL
Freelance journalist & editor, NZ/NL
Iceland’s magnificent great walk from Landmannalaugar to Skógar via Þorsmörk, the Laugavegur Trek, is one of the most spectacular long-distance hikes in the world. The remote trail crosses lava, moss and escaping steam, hills of rhyolite and rivers without bridges. Twenty years ago, Lonely Planet predicted that the trip would become as popular as the …
“This situation is an opportunity. You have to turn the negative into a positive,” says Josie Martin. Martin is the creator and owner/operator of The Giants House in Akaroa, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It’s a historic villa with terraced gardens full of sculptures, mosaics and ceramics by the artist. We’re talking on the phone in March …
So, what solutions do you suggest, Sitara?, asked someone after reading my column “The world has always been burning”. This often happens when I try to describe or critique the world and what’s going on – or what’s not going on – from a vantage point of “no-problem”. It’s a good question. It’s not often …
“Everything’s near collapse, the world is burning, there’s too much going on, the situation is escalating.” This is my clumsy rendering of a sentence by Dutch singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot who is sometimes referred to as “the Dutch Bob Dylan”. I used to listen to one of his records throughout the late seventies and early …
New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown came as a shock to me. I didn’t know democratic governments have the power to tell an entire population to stay home. I’m not complaining, but personally I’m more a proponent of the model used in Sweden. Immediately after the announcement by our prime minister, my employer told me not to …