Many New Zealand businesses do a great job, in my opinion, of catering to families. Case in point: the parent room, or family room, or changing room, or whatever you want to call it. Changing stations with nappy bins underneath I know that there are changing rooms at many businesses in the States, but it’s… Read More Living in New Zealand: Child and Parent Friendly
Hello, my lovely readers 🙂 I hope that your week started out as well as ours did – lots of sunshine and lovely weather. Celsius Fahrenheit I was reminiscing about last Easter weekend – I was roughly 2 months away from delivering Joe and in the thick of my antenatal classes. I remember that my… Read More Living in New Zealand: Easter Weekend
How many times have you heard the phrase, “It’s important to be a tourist in your own town”, or something like it? I’ve heard it a lot. When we first moved to New Zealand, it was fun and easy to be a tourist in Auckland. Everything was new to us and we wanted to see… Read More Living in New Zealand: Tourists in Your Own Town
When we first moved to NZ, one of the things we were told was that the traffic in Auckland was horrible. It’s not. Well, not compared with Boston. Or New York. Now that’s terrible traffic. Traffic here just seems like regular, big-city traffic, the likes of what you’d expect in a country’s largest city, but… Read More Living in New Zealand: Give Way Rules
One of the main reasons (that I hear) people offering up for moving to New Zealand is that they’re looking for a simpler lifestyle with a better work-life balance. New Zealand does a great job at providing employees with vacation time and encouraging them to take it (I believe that employees here are entitled to… Read More Living in New Zealand: Work-Life Balance
I absolutely love that I can shop for groceries from the comfort of my own home. It’s not just an issue of convenience. For me (and for many other parents) it’s a matter of preserving our sanity. Taking Joe to the grocery requires a certain amount of coordination. That coordination jumps up a level when… Read More Living in New Zealand: Online Grocery Shopping!
Apparently, writing a post at the end of the day after a glass of wine and a busy couple of hours in the Emergency Room isn’t always the best idea. Or maybe it is. I don’t know, but I feel the need to clarify, and that’s probably my fault. When I said that I didn’t… Read More A Clarification
I sometimes forget that not everyone who reads this blog has followed it from the beginning. As a result, there are probably a few of you who wonder what made us decide to pick up and move across the globe to New Zealand. We moved here for a pretty straightforward reason – Chris, my husband,… Read More Living in New Zealand: Why We Moved Here
I’ve decided to start doing a weekly “Living in New Zealand” post. I’m hoping that it’ll give a bit more structure to my blogging while also providing useful information for potential expats. This week, I’m going to write about – what else – the cost of living in New Zealand! One of the things that… Read More Living in New Zealand: Post #1
