March 2025

Napier shopping centre and a statue of a young boy waving to his mother. His mother with the pet dog. I first saw these two statues in 2017 and at that time the lady who modeled for the above statue was still alive and was in her early 80’s . The boy was her son. […]

The largest town in the South island of New Zealand, so named it is thought in 1848 after Christ Church in Oxford University UK. We visited Christchurch in 2017 during a cruise, at which time it was only six years after the 2011 earthquake, so we were keen to see how the town had progressed. […]