Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
One of the benefits of the new motorway tunnel under Victoria Park is the the restoration of the the old Campbell Free Kindergarten, Auckland's first kindergarten. A bit like the old Birdcage Tavern I blogged about previously here which now sits in it's original spot just across the road.
Having sat derelict under the motorway viaduct for decades it will now house the control room for the new tunnel as well as offering community facilities for the public. Restoration from scary looking old hunk to a gleaming piece of architectural heritage is well underway - amongst the chaos caused by the tunnel construction.
Having sat derelict under the motorway viaduct for decades it will now house the control room for the new tunnel as well as offering community facilities for the public. Restoration from scary looking old hunk to a gleaming piece of architectural heritage is well underway - amongst the chaos caused by the tunnel construction.
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