CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Punters, pole-taxing themselves, move their narrow wooden boats through the the city with grunts and shoves as part of the scene of a small, charming city that might have been shipped in from England in 1850 as a gift from the British Empire’s Big Mama, Queen Victoria. You could be in Oxford or Cambridge, except that the summer sun in Christchurch … [Read more...] about IT’S LIKE VISITING A SUNNY ENGLAND; CHRISTCHURCH, NZ, SHINES
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A DELICATE DANCE ON A GLACIER; NAVIGATING THIS GIANT ICE CUBE IS A CHALLENGE FOR A NEWCOMER
FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER, New Zealand – Ice dancing is an activity usually associated with the blade-sliding crowd, currently minueting for gold at an Olympic rink in Nagano. Years of effort have gone into their romance with frozen water, and they don’t have a lot of trouble standing up or waltzing. Of course, their wonders are performed on the well-known level playing field. … [Read more...] about A DELICATE DANCE ON A GLACIER; NAVIGATING THIS GIANT ICE CUBE IS A CHALLENGE FOR A NEWCOMER