Dispatches from Middle Earth
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New Zealand is not Utopia, but that’s ok
Author: Tim O'Donnell|Emma Lodes I have now been living in New Zealand for six weeks. Yet, for me, and my fellow international students in Dunedin everything...
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Back to the Cretaceous at the Catlins
Author: Emma Lodes It was like I imagined the rolling green hills of the English countryside, just after dawn. Skies cold patchy blue behind a marine...
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To see everything sometimes is to see nothing
Author: Tim O'Donnell By the time this entry is published, I'll most likely be on a ferry headed toward Wellington — New Zealand's capital—and, all due...
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The North Remembers
Author: Tim O'Donnell Today, it is the South Island that attracts most of New Zealand's wide-eyed adventure enthusiasts. It hosts the best bungee jumping, skiing and...
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Walking the Great Walk: The Kepler
Author: Tim O'Donnell|Emma Lodes In the southwest corner of the New Zealand’s south island lies Fiordland. It’s the southernmost nob of the Southern Alps, a waterlogged...
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Welcome to Castle Street
Author: Emma Lodes In the middle of the road, a ratty old couch bursts into flames. The fire leaps into the night sky and sends off...
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All-Blacks All the Time
Author: Tim O'Donnell The first thing one notices (aside from the familiar faces of Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson telling Air New Zealand passengers to fasten...
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Spiritual Science
Author: Emma Lodes Before the earth, before the sun and the moon there was nothing but Io—a genderless, parentless energy dancing within the void. Io was,...
