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With my four research interview recordings and huge amount of other observations I came from Taihape to Wellington. Wellington is a typical city with buildings where people live above and below each other: they are called blocks of flats.
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The conditions for university students in Wellington are excellent.
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For a boot throwographer Wellington rises expectations. In addition to [...]
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In the morning of the Gumboot Day the Finnish-German boot commandos had a chance put forward their mission to boot the world on a national NZ tv channel, in the Onenews of Tv1, see:
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The Gumboot Day offered all kinds of activities and attractions – to put it shortly: ‘Kiwi relaxation’ – for example:
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Compared with Finnish rural towns and places Taihape’s townscape is unexpected. The town centre is densely built, shops side by side. It is incredible that in a town of under 2 000 inhabitants there are shops and services for almost all needs. The backbone of Taihape centre is the State Highway 1, the main road of [...]
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18.3.2010
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The day went by giving an interview concerned with our visit in Taihape for Peak FM radio and doing interviews connected with my research project. In the evening we visited Elisabeth’s house on the hill – stunning views over the town!
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It is always a pleasure to learn something new. Today I realized, that a town called [...]
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16.3.2010
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Early in the morning the Finnish-German expedition jumped on the Overlander train and started their journey to Taihape which is located 230 km north of the capital city, Wellington. The terrain in New Zealand is largely hilly.
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However, some tens of kilometers to the north of Wellington there are quite large, flat agricultural areas with fields [...]
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Bangkok Ok! Although demonstrations caused delays to the timetables of the flights.
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The metropolis of Sydney was passed so quickly that there was no time for taking photos.
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Wellington, all things ok! The only problem was that my suitcase got lost during the trip. Thank you, Oneworld partners!
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Tomorrow morning we are going to leave Wellington for a [...]
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Airport is a good place to concretely sense the contemporaneousness of all spaces and places of the globe (see Massey 2005). In three hours I am going to leave my mother-country, wife and three lovely children for almost two weeks. Feeling homesickness already, but I think I will soon have also something else to think [...]
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In my research work I am currently engaged in a research titled ‘Development and utilization of cultural events in the countryside’. The aim of the research is to analyze the cultural, economical, social and psychological meanings of rural events in the local, regional, national and international contexts. The practical aim is to bring out good [...]