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Cuba . . . a dream destination

Rosa Briant is a Gizzy girl and former teacher who sold up and dedicated her life to travelling the world. Currently on her fifth continent her goal is to step foot on all seven and share the experiences, the growth, the ups and the downs, through...

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Keeping our history alive

Reporter Murray Robertson speaks to members of the Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust about their determination to restore the wharf at Tokomaru Bay. The Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust is determined to continue its work to get the money needed for the...

Master carver of the house

Ngati Porou master carver Lionel Matenga talks to Shaan Te Kani about his latest project, and his journey in the Maori art form . . .Before Lionel Matenga entered the realm of whakairo, his journey started off much like an untouched timber...

Margaret Moth: on her own terms

Margaret Gipsy Moth led an extraordinary, uncompromising life. Born in Gisborne in 1951 as Margaret Wilson, she started taking pictures with a still camera when she was eight. Gisborne in those days was certainly less outward-looking than it is...

Hopping mad about beer

Gisborne Beer Festival creator and director Ricky Boyd talks to Gisborne Herald reporter Kim Parkinson about the first festival at The Jolly Stockman next month. It’s a time of firsts for Gisborne Beer Festival creator and director Ricky Boyd —...

The lads in navy blue

The Battle of the River Plate, New Zealand's most famous naval battle, which ended with the scuttling of German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, started 80 years ago yesterday. The battle resulted in the death of 72 Allied crewmen, including two...

A kaleidoscope of sights

During the school holiday's my husband's immediate plan was to go to Auckland. In the two years I have been in Gisborne I don't know how many times I have visited the City of Sails, but I thought it was time for something new. For the last school...

Flavours and colours of autumn

Ingredients:½ cup olive oil plus 1 tablespoon, divided3 tempeh or other vegetarian sausages1 large red onion, diced6 large cloves garlic, crushed1 bulb fennel with fronds and stems removed and bulb cut into thin strips1 medium butternut squash...

Dared to dream

STORIES her grandmother told about people she encountered as a mental health worker inspired Tokomaru Bay woman Claudena Maaka to follow the same career path. For the past 14 years, Claudena has worked for the same organisation as her grandmother...

The road less travelled

Phil and Sue Newdick continue their pre-pandemic trip from the UK to Switzerland

Drama after school

Along with learning drama techniques such as improvisation, voice and body movement, Gisborne Theatre School students develop their own characters and scripts, says tutor Bo Jarratt. Bo and her team have set up the theatre school as a place young...

Tupaia doco in film festival

The making of the documentary Tupaia's Endeavour was a journey of discovery — and if a history-making moment at Uawa-Tolaga Bay wasn't mind-blowing enough, wait till you see the discovery that makes sense of the Raiatean arioi and navigator's map...

Her corner in New Zealand

After speaking professionally to top female executives in the United States, Frederique Irwin moved her family from Washington DC (District of Columbia) to Gisborne EC (East Coast) for a year. Andrew Ashton speaks to the Her Corner founder and finds...

And now . . . toilet tourism

Justine Tyerman gets seriously waylaid in the loos in Switzerland . . .“You were in the loos a l-o-n-g time,” I said to my travel companion who had been gone a good 15 minutes. We were at the top of magnificent Mt Schilthorn in Mürren...

What lies beneath

THE fiery plume of a question mark hangs over why anyone would build a city on a volcanic field. The upside, or underside, to Auckland city’s tenuous existence on that once bubbling plain is those volcanoes have contributed to an ancient...

Mary’s menagerie

EVERY so often, Mary Davis disappears out of town on mysterious trips to not-very-far-away places. She invariably comes home with a new member of the family — last time it was Billy, a goat that was supposed to be a reindeer and the time before, it...

‘All about skin health’

The idea of thousands of tiny missiles pounding my skin did not immediately appeal to me . . . but Caci Beauty Clinic manager Renee Taylor did warn me that this was not the place to go for “fluffy massages” and “feel-good facials”.“At...