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Europe, part 2: Munich
Munich/München is definitely the city on our trip I wish we’d had more time in just to wander. We only had one full day to explore the city, so we took a recommendation from my parents and did a bike...
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Europe, Part 1
I know this blog has been radio-silent for the past six months – this is partly due to being pretty busy with the whole PhD gig and partly due to being distracted by an actual real-life hobby. (Crazy,...
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For the Birds
“Grill season” doesn’t (un)officially start in the US until Memorial Day weekend at the end of May – like Labour Day weekend in NZ, the time when you’re supposed to dust off the BBQ grill, put on your...
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Some History
One of the things I still get a kick out of here, even after nearly three years, is driving past the town signs (every little bit of land in Massachusetts is part of some sort of town or city,...
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Swings and Roundabouts
It’s been a curious sort of week from where I’m sitting in Western Massachusetts. I always tell people in New Zealand that I’m in “the part of Massachusetts that isn’t Boston”, but whether you like it...
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The Blizzard of 2013
It might have caught the attention of some of you that we had a little bit of snow here in New England over the weekend. We actually got off pretty lightly here in Western Massachusetts, and by...
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Colds
I think I said something last week about it being really cold. Everyone: I was wrong. Now it’s really cold. The wind chill tomorrow morning is supposed to be -15F. If I didn’t have to leave the house...
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Taxonomy By Night
We had a brief thaw here last week, enough to melt almost all the snow (though it was replenished quickly enough). Turns out one of the side-effects of “warm” (translation: above freezing) temperatures...
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Twenty Below
The serious part of winter has arrived here in Western Massachusetts – we got a foot of snow between Christmas and New Year’s, and it is, admittedly, very pretty. Snow. Lots of snow. It’s also sticking...
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Merry Christmas, Everyone
This is the view from my kitchen window. Not featured: snow. This is the forecast for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day: I am mentally willing those accumulations up. Many, many Christmas-related movies have...
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The World’s Best(???) Christmas Shop
You know that thing where the closer you live to a tourist attraction, the less likely you are to actually visit it? Like how I lived in Christchurch for six years and never visited the Antarctic...
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Niagara
Niagara Falls reminded me startlingly of Las Vegas, for all that it’s several thousand miles and a number of ecosystem types away; in both places, someone looked at a breathtaking natural wonder and...
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