By James CookThis past month Jade and I both submitted entries to the World Nomads "Blog Your Backyard" competition. The premise of the competition was simple enough, you had to blog about your home country and city. The winners would get a $50 gift voucher to use with Urban...
By James CookThere is a famous drive you can do in California called the 17 mile drive. Despite the name it is only 9.5 miles long. The drive takes you between a perfectly manicured golf course and the fierce Pacific ocean, the contrast between the 2 is prehaps one of the...
By James CookI have been living in Wellington for about 6 months now and have witnessed the changing of the seasons here. I have done 2 top 5 lists for this city as the winter is so vastly different to the summer that it is like you are in a completely different city. So...
By James Cook The Best. 1. Free HealthcareIf you get injured in the UK you do not have to pay to go see a doctor. That is hands down the best thing about my country. They could change a lot of things about Britain but as long as the healthcare remains free I don't think I...
By James Cook1. Stokes CroftThis is the centre of the arts scene in Bristol. Its close proximity to the music collage means that it is also the centre of the music scene in Bristol with many live bands playing in the various clubs and bars. Stokes Croft is also famous...
By James CookIf you are British, Canadian or American (or pretty much any other Western country in the Northern Hemisphere) you will go for a year long working holiday to New Zealand and then follow up with a year working in Australia. You will then return to your home country...
By James Cook The 7 links project is a phenomenon quickly spreading across the blogging world where bloggers are invited to pick out some of their favorite articles from the archives, dust them off, and put them back on display for the world to see. In order to participate,...
By James CookWhen I was in Zimbabwe we would spend time each week at a local school. Our time there would include playing with the young children, teaching the older ones (a whole new respect for teachers came of this experience!) and working with them on their Permaculture...
By James CookI left the Uk with 2 cameras. Neither will leave New Zealand. Dead Camera #1 : Fujifilm S1800The first was a Fujifilm S1800, a mid-range camera that I got before I went for a 6 week volunteer program in Zimbabwe. I chose it simply for the fact that it...
By James Cook We have decided, dear reader, that after our last hitchhiking fiasco we are going to book a bus to Dunedin. Whilst this sort of goes against how we like to travel, we have decided that we would rather just make it to Dunedin hassle free.The bus took a long time...
