Our new shop by night

Waikato Idyll

The new true shop facade

The new JollyBikes shop ....

... is gaining contours.

This is a computer generated photo composition  -  signage is still in the making

Premiere

Our new fireplace on it's first run.

Whenever I complained about cold weather in New Zealand, I got the comment: well, you must be used to much colder weather in Germany! 

The answer I give is always the same: You know, in the New Zealand winter it is relatively warm outside, but inside the houses it feels cold. In Germany, it may be very cold outside, but the houses are usually warm inside. It is affordable to heat them because of the insulation. 

Well, this fireplace is a very effective one, so we don't suffer any more, and the living area is large, and we all fit in there, everyone has his corner. 

  

Almost finished and good to go: our new guest area! Goodbye Former Garden Shed - hello CoroBase!

Link to our new airbnb listing.

Extremely rare: true snow on the Coromandel Peninsula - and hail in Coromandel Town

At Wilson Bay and only there! A weird phenomenon.

Coromandel Town, on the same day.

The snowfall was extremely localised to an area of maybe 200 meters diameter. Nowhere else on the way from Thames to Coromandel Town any snow had fallen and remained. The snow was still there when I returned in the evening.