When I got the opportunity to judge at the University World Water Ski Championships in Japan this September, we decided this would be the beginning of an epic honeymoon...!
Listening to the whingers, the commentators, and the optimists day in, day out can swing your view on what kind of country New Zealand is, what issues we have, and what is good about our little country down here in the corner of the globe. But sometimes, I feel we get caught up in our own isolation with little perspective from the outside world. Here are some things learned from travelling the world.
By 11am, 29thAugust 2012, I was on my third coffee, about my fifth Facebook session, a few flick-throughs of the newspaper, and a mountain of work that I really should have been doing piling up at my desk and in my email inbox