Tag Archive for New Zealand
More Postcards from Australia/New Zealand
Greetings from Sydney! It’s a gorgeous afternoon, and I’ve walked from the opera house to Oxford Street, a place for cute shops and rainbow flags. That’s where I found Ampersand, a cafe with English breakfast, coffee to die for, internet, and three floors of used books! T-minus 4 hours till we start the crossing from […]
Modak’s Espresso – Dunedin, New Zealand
This is from our last Dunedin. We had boat drill (they always put it on a great port day), and the boat drill didn’t end till 11:30, and the shuttle into town takes half an hour, and we had to be back onboard for a 3:00pm rehearsal. So it was a short day, but I […]
Shoulder Angel in Tauranga
Flat White
This is yet another stop on my cafe-tour of Australia/New Zealand: Enigma, in the windy city of Wellington. A lot of these ports are repeats from my first ship contract in 2008, and I’m happy to report that Enigma, Modak’s Espresso (Dunedin), eighty-eight (Mt. Maunganui) and the strawberry alarmclock (Aukland) are all still here. Our […]