Tag: Queenstown

• Top Twelve of 2012

  I would like to do something meaningful, like “My Top Twelve Moments of 2012,” but that would get too gushy, or “Twelve Lessons I Learned in 2012,” but I’d quickly become embittered, so I will stick with: My Top Twelve Food Items of 2012. 12.  Extra’s Strawberry Shortcake gum Two years ago I wrote a…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  December 31, 2012

  food, holidays, lists

  Banoffee Pie, Extra gum, Lick gelato, lists of little importance, New year’s eve, Queenstown, St. Claires wine, Top Twelve of 2012

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to NZ

  TWENTY NINE DAYS OF FEBRUARY! Today on Skype, my mother informed me that on Leap Year, the tradition is for a woman to ask a man to marry her. Despite my entire extended family’s fear that I will never wed, I didn’t get the sense she was hinting at anything, which was nice considering my…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 29, 2012

  men, travel

  creepers in vans, hitchhiking, Leap Year, paranoid parents, Queenstown, travel

• Post Valentine’s Day notes on Pre Valentine’s Day

  Yesterday was Valentine’s Day in the States. You had my pity.   My Valentine’s Day wasn’t that bad in terms of the usual, “I’m single; I hate Hallmark; people in love are stupid and annoying,” as much as it was miserable because I wanted to spear my workplace and light it on fire. (Of course,…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 15, 2012

  food, travel

  Banoffee Pie, British people named Simon, Glenorchy, hiking, LOTR, Montanara, Queenstown, Routeburn track, Smeagol, valentine’s day, Winnie’s Pizza, Zucha

• Burgers on Ice

  Fergburger   The first time I heard of Fergburger was the day I met Nicole.  We were talking about things to do in Queenstown because I had just moved here, and she said there was this place that makes massively huge burgers. “They really are quite good,” she said in her German/Italian accent, and told…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  February 11, 2012

  food, travel

  below zero ice bar, bun laden, fergburger, polar bear, Queenstown

• Pass me the Hokey Pokey

  An evening that I get home from work before midnight prompts a new blog. Hooray! (By the way, I have a job and I moved to Queenstown. ) No Surprise There Well, we all know it was only a matter of time before I joined a gym. (Today marks day 5 of being in Queenstown.)…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 18, 2012

  random, travel

  cheap Samsung phone, gym membership, hokey pokey, Lick gelato, Queenstown, speaking German

• Blogger’s Paradise, or really, Anyone’s Paradise

  Too! Many! Updates! Brain. Overload. (death noise) To begin with, I arrived in New Zealand on Sunday, to Dunedin, a coastal city on the southeastern side of the southern island (you’ll probably have to scroll down to see it): Dunedin was described by Nigel (aka “The Man”) as being “more Scottish than the Scottish.” Little…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 12, 2012

  travel

  adventure capital of the world, Dunedin, Jason Law Photography, love condoms, Queenstown, Scottish