Tag: Highs

Highs and lows on the Dragons Teeth

Organising tramping expeditions to the South Island from the North are always a gamble. Plans must be set in motion far before forecasts are ever drawn up. Despite this, by some miracle when Emily and I landed in Blenheim the skies were clear and the outlook over Golden Bay was, for the most part, l...

Rio de Janeiro Highs

The recent passing of noted samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto has turned my thoughts to Brazil and especially to Rio de Janeiro. I fell madly in love with A Cidade Maravilhosa (marvelous city) half a century before I ever set foot there, when I saw Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) for...