by LeelaB | Jan 1, 2024 | Back to Aukland
Sweet as End to 2023 ♥ As Auckland emptied itself for Christmas break/summer holidays, Mahiran and I joined the exiting trend and headed up North to our favourite coast. To our relief, the number of cars reduced after hitting a couple of towns, and it didn’t take us...
by LeelaB | Nov 30, 2023 | Back to Aukland
It’s been a hot second How do you start a blog entry that was meant to be a monthly update but you haven’t posted anything in ages? The challenge of re-starting these, of finding that catchy first sentence that re-engross the reader while apologising for...
by LeelaB | Apr 30, 2023 | Back to Aukland
Turning Tables April behaved like spring but showed us the colours of Autumn. Warm days basked in sunshine juxtaposed gray skies whisked by westerly winds. While the rest of the world slowly celebrated the end of winter, we braced ourselves for its onset . This...
by LeelaB | Mar 31, 2023 | Back to Aukland
Still Flowering in Concrete The first month back in Auckland was an emotional whirlwind of events . There was the realisation that we could not break our housing contract without losing our bond given the recent development that our housemates also wished to move out....
by LeelaB | Feb 28, 2023 | The Travels
Two People, One Car, and an So Much of an Island Country to Discover Seven weeks, 5,168 kilometers, 96 different places we stopped at, a colorfulfully marked map of New Zealand’s North Island, four cyclones, a two year anniversary, one birthday, and a lifetime of...