In this episode, as the blatantly Tolkien-esque episode title suggests, we go underground, into the dark old goldmines that pepper the Coromandel region of New Zealand. We find some terrifying native creepy crawlies, and we crash a rather expensive piece of equipment. All in a day’s work for the Expeditionists 🙄😅😂 With love from this…
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Episode 5 – Fire and Water (A video about mosquitoes, volcanoes…and my crazy driving)
Okay, so my first Christmas Eve post shall be to catch up with the webseries episodes that I’ve missed sharing! So, in case you missed it, here is episode 5 (don’t forget to subscribe when you click through!) With love from this side of darkness, J R Manawa 🖤🖤🖤
Episode 4 – The Old Forest & the myth of creation – New Zealand Roadtrip Video
For me in particular this leg of the journey was quite an emotional one. Maybe I’ll write a proper tale about it sometime to document the stories and myths that it evoked in my mind. Seeing the hordes of glow worms dwelling inside the Waipu Caves was awesome, but for me it was the journey…
Episodes 2 & 3 of New Zealand Travel!
So I’ve been a bit behind on the various facets of social media 🙈 (shock, horror) there’s been so much to see and do…! I’m currently sitting on the beach, on and island, somewhere off the coast of Cambodia 🇰🇭, and it’s wonderful. It’s stunning, amazing. This world is crazy beautiful, and the people within…
The back alleys of Ho Chi Minh City…
Well, here I am, lost down a little alley somewhere in Old Saigon. I took a wrong turn somewhere. Okay, well, maybe not a “wrong turn”, it just wasn’t the right one, and now I’m here. Sitting at a little metal table on the side of a narrow alley with a bottle of Saigon Export…
This side of darkness 