Most popular posts of 2016
Slightly belatedly but here are the ten most popular posts on my blog in 2016, thrilling stuff… 1. New Zealand Great Walks Ranked A perennial favourite. My most popular post by…
Tag: Best of 2016
Best of 2016 – Basement Theatre Interviews
A year ago the Basement Theatre asked whether I might be interested in writing for their blog. 35 posts later, here are some of the highlights from interviews with show…
Best of 2016 – Photography – Further afield
I took ~10,000 photos overseas this year on my travels to Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, the Galápagos, Georgia, UK and Australia. Here’s a far smaller subset of some of my favourites. All…
Best of 2016 – Photography – New Zealand
I took ~13,000 photos in New Zealand this year. Here’s a far smaller subset of some of my favourites. All taken on my Sony Cyber-shot DCS-RX100, a pocket sized camera…
Best of 2016 – Tramping / hiking – further afield
Other than a few day walks around Sydney this was my first real experience of tramping / hiking outside of New Zealand. No overnighters but went for some pretty amazing…
Best of 2016 – Tramping / hiking – New Zealand
A reasonably successful third year of tramping / hiking in New Zealand. Completed my longest and toughest tramp – five days for the Travers-Sabine Circuit, including Angelus Hut and an…
Best of 2016 – Books
It’s been a particularly busy year with work, theatre going, travel and writing ~180 blogs, so I’ve only managed to read ~60 books, my lowest number in five years. I increasingly…
Best of 2016 – Cinema
Bit of a quiet year, only saw 63 films at the cinema this year, in part due to being away during the New Zealand International Film Festival. In no particular…
Best of 2016 – Auckland Theatre & Dance
Where I can be found up to seven times a week during the height of the season (typically when the weather starts to pack up in June) the theatre is…
Best of 2016 – Auckland Theatre performances
New Zealand is home to some wonderful actors, and many of them tread the boards of Auckland theatres. To accompany my favourite shows of 2016, in chronological order here were…
Best of 2016 – Auckland Theatre staging
Theatre doesn’t necessarily need great staging in order to be successful, but it certainly helps. My highlights of the year showed great imagination and generally almost non-existent budgets, to create…
Best of 2016 – Auckland Theatre props
The unsung special effects of theatre productions, killer props that helps define a scene, a mood or a joke. Here are some of the more memorable of the year. A…