Anna in Hanoi

Finally they arrived! This Sunday we got VIP visit from Japan and although we had given instructions not to bring any stuff, they came with ...

Back to the beach, and it does seem like the farther north you get, the better the beaches get as well! We enjoyed white sand and blue skies...

Who's watching who?

After almost a week in the cloudy mountains we started to miss the ocean and decided to go west. Most of all we liked the little village Pih...

A visit to New Zealand's north island, without passing Roturoa seemed impossible. We got ourselves soaked in a couple of hot springs but...

For the kids it was three weeks of total freedom. With about everything clean, green and safe the boundaries extended way beyond those of Ha...

We picked up our car already at the airport in Auckland and even though we did try to not drive too many hours a day, we did do almost 3000 ...

After a night in Auckland we took off to the east coast and Coromandel Peninsula where we started our NZ adventure with a lazy week in sunny...

"It smells like at mormor and morfar's" was Kai's first comment on his impressions of this new country, actually not that ...

Packing, packing and fixing all those last little things. But tomorrow we are finally off for Auckland. Hopefully we will be able to post so...

If its not playing dragon, or at least running after Hana sounding like one, it is reading stories with dragons in them or watching whatever...

It's been pouring down for two days and we've had to dig the cupboards for raincoats and rubberboots for the kids. But it's not ...

Who are they? What are they talking about? What are they thinking about? I don't know... More than that, it seems like January has brou...

Three weeks of winter break is finally over and all is back to normal again! And, we did have a lot of fun during this last week, visiting f...

Summer comes and goes, grey and cold days are followed by wonderful sunny and warm days. Like today, when we spent all day in the garden, ev...