Another year has nearly gone and I still have not managed to do all the things I wanted to do. The years seem to be getting shorter and our lives busier. With Christmas being upon us once again I, like many others, tend to leave 'things' to the last minute, thereby creating a whirlwind of activities in the week leading up to Christmas.

I started my nursing studies in New Plymouth (boy those were some memories) and for some reason I’ve always had a thing for coastal towns/cities. Not the built-up, commercialised, touristy ones, but the fairly untouched ones. The “provincial” ones.