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Read more: 148. The middle of the middle148. The middle of the middle
There’s a particular kind of humility that comes from being assigned seat 28E. The middle. The mathematical centre of other people’s discomfort, for thirteen hours, from Los Angeles to Aotearoa. To my right: a woman whose body had simply outgrown the architecture around it (and the bones buried within it). Her flesh pressed warmly against…
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88. Is meaning the new money?
Read more: 88. Is meaning the new money?As this has become my travel blog, I am checking in from Sydney. There is a writer’s festival on. There is VIVID, the festival of art, music and ideas, and there is a refuge retreat at Mahasiddha Kadampa Meditation Centre. This is the same group I flirt with in Auckland. Add to this collision of…
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87. Friends I made in Tahiti.
Read more: 87. Friends I made in Tahiti.I know it sounds a lot like an imaginary friend, but I met a French woman called Francy this week. I met her at my accidental aerobics class, once I could talk again properly. She’s an adventurer, a little blond fireball of energy and light, probably 60 I reckon. Lived here for 15 years now,…
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86. Losing my Jet Ski virginity.
Read more: 86. Losing my Jet Ski virginity.The guide was a loose unit, only vaguely interested in us. You do this before? Four out of six of us said no. This is the throttle. No brakes. Okay, follow me! He took off like there were killer ants threatening to crawl into his jocks. He didn’t look back. We blasted around the island,…
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85. Just the three of us.
Read more: 85. Just the three of us.I took an early morning walk today. My plan was to stride it out on the beach, get my heart rate up a little, then make a rare appearance at the pool – which would be empty but for me star fishing in the middle of it. This was a good plan. But I wasn’t…
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84. Important new french phrases I have learned whilst in Tahiti.
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83. A glimpse of the beautiful man.
Read more: 83. A glimpse of the beautiful man.To better understand the island we are holidaying on, I chose a quad bike adventure for my boy and me today. People get killed on them I know, but I figured Albert Tours wouldn’t have a business if they sent people home in boxes. I’d driven one on a Bay of Islands shoot a couple…
Secret Royalty On Tour 