Yesterday as part our Migrant Stories series we entered an account from a British person, who’d lived in New Zealand and returned to the UK, titled “Why I think New Zealand is backward“. Her post was made on an emigration forum frequented mainly by British people and some New Zealanders. It drew a massive response,…
Carjackings in NZ aren’t unusual by any means* (they’ve been called NZ’s “new home invasion”) but their frequency seems is increasing at an alarming rate. Is it a protracted craze arising from playing a certain type of video game and if so should games like that be banned, or is this just an unwillingness to…
A Canadian tourist, Matt Brazeau, has had his thigh pierced clean through by a Stingray whilst standing in surf after falling out of his canoe near Waitara, near New Plymouth, sometime this week. He told the Taranaki Daily News “I was reaching for the kayak and felt this unbelievable pain through my leg. It was…
Today we were reminded that Mia Pusch wasn’t the only German cyclist to have died in New Zealand in the last twelve months. Much the same as Mia, another German national was also killed by a truck and it was moving in the same direction as he was. German tourist Stephan Stoermer had been on…
A Facebook page has been established to remember Mia Pusch, the brilliant, vivacious young German cyclist who tragically died too soon whilst on a cycling holiday in New Zealand. The page may be found here. Her mother Gesa has responded to the many heartfelt messages of support left on the wall and we’d like to…
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