I think all of us have had a go at being a tourist. We go somewhere we haven’t been before, and there’s often a list of touristy things to do. In Christchurch it’s probably ride the tram, go to the Restart Mall, go on a punt. Tourists often do things that locals generally do not
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Travelling and at home, one of the differences between Roman Catholic and Anglican church buildings that has become a noticeable pattern to me is that if one goes into a Roman Catholic church building it would be very rare to find one where there isn’t someone praying; if one goes into an Anglican church building
Take care if you think you can use iCloud as a simple backup system. iCloud is doing something different to that.For travelling I was going to take an iPad mini, and use it to store all my photos (including putting photos from my came onto it via an attachment). I was going to backup these
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As part of my recent walking of the Camino, I stopped and prayed at the place in Pamplona where Ignatius Loyola was wounded – this was the beginning of his conversion from ostentatious knight to close follower of Jesus. My photo (above) shows the statue in Pamplona of the event. Diagonally across the street is
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I use the word “contemporary” as much as, or more than, the next person. In fact I use “contemporary” when some use “modern” because, naysayers notwithstanding, I think much of our contemporary world is more “post-modern” than “modern”. Sometimes I joke that some contemporary artists, on their deathbed, will go, “ha, ha – gotcha!” [We’ve
There were lots of things about walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage recently that were very different to what I had imagined or expected. One of the things I had not expected or prepared for was all the advice I got. People who had walked the Camino to Santiago de Compostela gave us advice. People
The Gospel reading that will be read most this coming Sunday is John 6:24-35: “… Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’…” The Hebrew word manna (מָן) means “What is it?”! Whatsit?! Exodus 16:15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to
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27 July – 2 August 2015 is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori – Maori Language Week. The New Zealand Lectionary has it as last week; two weeks are fine in any case, and the whole month would be even better…! The point of Te Wiki is not for this to be the only one
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