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travel diaries - new zealand

Jul
08
the jetty at kinloch, lake wakatipu, south island, new zealand. copyright leonie wise

life on film

another from the roll i’d forgotten about: the jetty at kinloch, top of lake wakatipu
Jul
06
the road to glenorchy from queenstown. copyright leonie wise

life on film

i’ve just had a roll of expired 120 film developed that i’d put through the hasselblad a while
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Mar
28
Owhango station in the main railway line from Auckland to Wellington in New Zealand

i will find my way back

1 – 6 // scenes from a moving train, going to visit my parents 7 // looking back down to a loop of
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Jan
09
polaroid photograph of a street in shinjuku, tokyo, japan. copyright leonie wise. all rights reserved

where would you go?

along with 17 other new zealand travel bloggers, i was invited to contribute my top picks for travel for 2015
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Dec
31
rotoroa island

rotoroa island

just a 20-minute ferry ride from the orapiu wharf (at the other end of waiheke island) is rotoroa island. it’
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Dec
01
from there and here [abandoned]

from there and here [abandoned]

1 // there: we are invited to join some friends on a trip to chernobyl & pripyat to learn a little
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Nov
29
pruno village, apuan alps, italy

from there and here [a bit of a walk]

1 // there: i watched (and thoroughly enjoyed) the movie the way last night and it reminded me, again, of how
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Nov
29
rope bridge and carrick-a-rede, northern ireland

from there and here [bridge]

1 // there: the rope bridge that spans the 30-metre deep and 20-metre wide chasm between the mainland and carrick-a-rede island.
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Nov
19
from there and here [camp]

from there and here [camp]

1 // there: it’s our first (but not last) visit to fforest camp; it remains one of the best ever
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Aug
28
postcards from wakatipu

postcards from wakatipu

have you seen the TV series top of the lake? well that is set near lake wakatipu in the south
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