Reflecting on the past 20 months is a painless task: as new immigrants we have been blessed with the softest landing possible - a wonderful group of friends, a small and close community, successful jobs and very happy kids. We love this country. We cannot imagine calling any other place home.
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| Lunch with friends at a waterfall near Karekare near where we live. |
K and I watched a series of brilliant documentaries on New Zealand, among them "Here to Stay" - a look at several different cultural groups that have immigrated to New Zealand.
Understanding the history of NZ is important to us, as well as discovering many quaint and interesting little towns and beaches. So when we recently landed up in Puhoi, I was especailly interested in a tiny, white-washed wooden villa on the hillside called the Bohemia Museum. I'd just returned from a holiday in Prague (Centre of Bohemia) and after watching "Here to Stay", I realised that Dallies had lived there. Sure enough, we were told that a small group of immigrants from the Czech Republic had canoed up the river in the early 1900s after months of travel.
Understanding the history of NZ is important to us, as well as discovering many quaint and interesting little towns and beaches. So when we recently landed up in Puhoi, I was especailly interested in a tiny, white-washed wooden villa on the hillside called the Bohemia Museum. I'd just returned from a holiday in Prague (Centre of Bohemia) and after watching "Here to Stay", I realised that Dallies had lived there. Sure enough, we were told that a small group of immigrants from the Czech Republic had canoed up the river in the early 1900s after months of travel.
