lilacsigel provides links so you can help victims and their families here.

I had originally planned to rant about the way the very people whose hateful rethoric shapes such terrorism even now just blithely continue (between one or two crocodile tears at best), but you know what, sovay has the right idea. No naming them. No speaking them. The victims count.

In a hole in a ground, there lived a hobbit.



( Et in Hobbiton Ego )

In which we travel from the South lIsland to the North Island and visit the capital.

( And some movie magic )

Travelling means not much time online, so I use what I have to share the beauty around me.

( Photographing Middle Earth )

I maaaaaaayy manage to go to New Zealand next year. Now, given that winter is summer and summer is winter if you're from the opposite part of the planet, what would be the best time to visit? If I can manage, I want to see as much of the country as possible, which is easier when it's neither too hot to travel nor all snowed in.

Advise me, New Zealanders and fellow travellers, pretty please?