Hi all,
Ok like it or not you continue to be (or I might have just added you) to my email list of followers of my travels so now I will try to send you highlights of my travels abroad every day I am traveling. Saturday evening I left SFO below a large Squeak Carnwath...
and arrived at the international terminal in Auckland NZ just before sunrise. And then I flew to Dunedin on the South Island. The point of this trip was to see the beauty of NZ, meet a number of jewelers, and attend a jewelry exhibition and symposium in Wellington at the Dowse Museum in Wellington. Damian Skinner has planned the itinerary which has a very ambitious schedule. While walking from the International terminal to the Domestic terminal at about 6 I smelled a dry sage-y high desert smell and just saw the red streaks of the morning sun coming up over the Domestic terminal.
During the flight, there was actually an educational program projected about all kinds of cultural phenomena like who did Hugh Grant play in a 1995 movie? to what kinds of products did an NZ company make? or this one which says ‘Who had a 1987 number one hit called ‘French Kissin in the USA?” Answer “Debbie Harry" Nice way to actually educate people while they might just be staring into space as I was by this time.
I arrive in Dunedin on the South Island and Damian meets me to start off on a day to see the landscape- i.e. sheep and rocks with beautiful clouds.
This is one of the main highways in NZ...
More or less all the little towns we went through were fairly empty.
with a little church..
We stopped off to see Kobi Bosshard, a jeweler from Switzerland who came to NZ about 50 years ago and his wife Patricia who live in the most lovely stone compound with a few sheep. He is known for starting many of the well know NZ jewelers off on their careers by teaching them the basics of good metalsmithing from the old country. I have one piece of his called “Description of a Greenstone Pebble”.
Here is Damian entering their property.
And just look at the amazing dry-stacked stonewall made from schist rock. It was built in 1880 and is still standing and held in place by clever handy work... no mortar.
Here is Kobi’s studio...
It was wonderful to visit with 2 people who live without the internet and heat their house with a wood stove.. and the day we were visiting there wasn’t electricity either and that was fine with them but unfortunately for me that meant the peach pie couldn’t get cooked. We had quince pudding instead which was delicious. View out the back window..
Back on the road again we stopped at Fraser’s View point to observe a real version of a Chester Arnold vision of a gold mining site.
More of the schist rock in it’s natural state.
And here as well...
So it’s bye for now. Wishing you all a wonderful day and maybe something more exciting will happen tomorrow…a big storm is coming in so that could at least be disruptive.
Hugs,
Susan
Ok like it or not you continue to be (or I might have just added you) to my email list of followers of my travels so now I will try to send you highlights of my travels abroad every day I am traveling. Saturday evening I left SFO below a large Squeak Carnwath...
and arrived at the international terminal in Auckland NZ just before sunrise. And then I flew to Dunedin on the South Island. The point of this trip was to see the beauty of NZ, meet a number of jewelers, and attend a jewelry exhibition and symposium in Wellington at the Dowse Museum in Wellington. Damian Skinner has planned the itinerary which has a very ambitious schedule. While walking from the International terminal to the Domestic terminal at about 6 I smelled a dry sage-y high desert smell and just saw the red streaks of the morning sun coming up over the Domestic terminal.
During the flight, there was actually an educational program projected about all kinds of cultural phenomena like who did Hugh Grant play in a 1995 movie? to what kinds of products did an NZ company make? or this one which says ‘Who had a 1987 number one hit called ‘French Kissin in the USA?” Answer “Debbie Harry" Nice way to actually educate people while they might just be staring into space as I was by this time.
I arrive in Dunedin on the South Island and Damian meets me to start off on a day to see the landscape- i.e. sheep and rocks with beautiful clouds.
This is one of the main highways in NZ...
More or less all the little towns we went through were fairly empty.
with a little church..
We stopped off to see Kobi Bosshard, a jeweler from Switzerland who came to NZ about 50 years ago and his wife Patricia who live in the most lovely stone compound with a few sheep. He is known for starting many of the well know NZ jewelers off on their careers by teaching them the basics of good metalsmithing from the old country. I have one piece of his called “Description of a Greenstone Pebble”.
Here is Damian entering their property.
And just look at the amazing dry-stacked stonewall made from schist rock. It was built in 1880 and is still standing and held in place by clever handy work... no mortar.
Here is Kobi’s studio...
It was wonderful to visit with 2 people who live without the internet and heat their house with a wood stove.. and the day we were visiting there wasn’t electricity either and that was fine with them but unfortunately for me that meant the peach pie couldn’t get cooked. We had quince pudding instead which was delicious. View out the back window..
Back on the road again we stopped at Fraser’s View point to observe a real version of a Chester Arnold vision of a gold mining site.
More of the schist rock in it’s natural state.
And here as well...
So it’s bye for now. Wishing you all a wonderful day and maybe something more exciting will happen tomorrow…a big storm is coming in so that could at least be disruptive.
Hugs,
Susan
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