Travelling with Xils

Mt Aspiring, Queenstown, Milford Sound, Lake Marian, Routeburn Track, Kepler Track, Abel Tasman Track, Dunedin, Nugget Point, Aoraki Mt Cook, Lake Pukaki, Lake Tekapo, Moeraki Boulders, Tunnel Beach and more around #NewZealand

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Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove)

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Mt Taranaki & sequoias in Whakarewarewa forest (Rotorua)

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Mt Aspiring National Park: Matukituki & Rob Roy Valleys

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Queenstown

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Meet Auckland Art Gallery's Monet

Media Release

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki has received on long-term loan its first painting by Claude Monet and will exhibit the artwork from tomorrow, Wednesday 9 November 2016.  

The painting, Le pont japonais (1918 – 1924), is the first Monet under Auckland Art Gallery’s stewardship. It depicts Monet’s famous waterlily garden and Japanese bridge, a scene he is most celebrated for and which he painted more than 100 times.  

Gallery Director Rhana Devenport says having this Monet ‘waterlily’ in the Gallery’s collection is an historic moment.

‘This is the first time Aucklanders will have frequent access to a marvellous work by one of the most admired and influential European artists of the 20th-century,’ she says.

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Routeburn Track

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Lake Marian Track

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Milford Sound

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The Chasm: Heart-shaped nature ♡♡♡♡ 

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We Dream of an Untouched World

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St Clair Beach

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Speight’s Brewery

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Le véritable voyage, ce n'est pas de parcourir le désert ou de franchir de grandes distances sous-marines, c'est de parvenir en un point exceptionnel où la saveur de l'instant baigne tous les contours de la vie intérieure.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Nugget Point (2) and Kaka Point

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Nugget Point (1): lighthouse of the rising sun

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Love of Life: Albert Camus on Happiness, Despair, the Art of Awareness, and Why We Travel

“There is no love of life without despair of life.”

“Without cafés and newspapers, it would be difficult to travel. A paper printed in our own language, a place to rub shoulders with others in the evenings enable us to imitate the familiar gestures of the man we were at home, who, seen from a distance, seems so much a stranger. For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have”

“Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks [...], we are completely on the surface of ourselves. But also, soul-sick, we restore to every being and every object its miraculous value [...] When we are aware of every gift, the contradictory intoxications we can enjoy (including that of lucidity) are indescribable.”

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Fernweh (German) — Illustrated by Anjana Iyer / Found in Translation series / 100 days project