A whole day on the water ....
.... at least it felt that way. After a beautiful sunrise, we took the ferry from Paihia to Russell to spend (almost) a whole day on a tall ship in the Bay of Islands. The...


Published: 01.03.2026















.... the birthplace of modern New Zealand that we visited today .... and learned among other things that nowadays only 17% of New Zealanders are Maori and that they have only gradually received full civil rights starting in the 1990s.
By the way, it was similar in French Polynesia: We Europeans cannot be proud of our colonial or de facto colonial past.
