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However, the lush, hand-planted native forest can be enjoyed on foot, flying over the canopy, or on the train. Along the way, they share the story of Driving Creek’s conversion to a lush native forest from what was once kauri logging, gold mining, and farming. You will find Driving Creek Railway just outside the town of Coromandel, which is located on the northwestern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. You might also like: Disclaimer: We were guests of Driving Creek Railway and Potteries and also provided general assistance by Destination Coromandel, the local tourism board, to assist in the writing of this article.

People from around the globe know the country for its canals, windmills, and tulips, but the Netherlands offers much more. With a stunning building, grand interior design, lively events, truly world-class amenities, and rare art and antiquities, the Rijksmuseum offers a comprehensive overview of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages to modern times. There is also the Van Gogh Museum, which is home to the world’s largest collection of Van Gogh’s works and that attracts around 1.5 million visitors every year. Aside from canals, tulips, and art masterpieces, the Netherlands is also world-famous for its windmills, particularly the windmills of Kinderdijk.

Back to the Carpark again From the Putangirua Pinnacles carpark to the Lookout, it takes about 45 minutes. It took about 10 minutes to walk down the steep hill to the track junction from here. From the track junction you could walk another 10-15 minutes up the streambed to the base of the Pinnacles, which is well worth exploring, or about 30 minutes back to the carpark. The walk to the Putangirua Pinnacles Lookout took the kids 45 minutes.

Author Jill Culiner brings it to life with her story and offers us a modern vegetarian petcha soup recipe, with a dairy and gluten-free option. My maternal grandmother from Rivne (Ukraine) was convinced that petcha was the sort of food I needed to grow up strong, healthy, and wise enough to snag a wealthy husband. Down in Bukowina (Poland), chicken soup replaced the calf’s foot, and small pieces of chicken replaced the cartilage and other meat. Add the crushed garlic clove, and instead of meat, use sliced fresh mushrooms — any fresh mushroom will do.

As a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, the mandala represents different aspects of the universe, the principle of life, and the essence of the world. How mandalas are made, and why Nepalis use water (symbolizing refreshment), yellow tika powder (meaning the sun’s equity and open-mindedness), or red tika powder (representing consciousness), then rice, cereals, legumes, and flowers (symbolizing all living beings). One of the most well-known types of mandala is the sand mandala (dupchhoe), made with colored sand and powders in Tibetan monasteries. Mandala art is considered one of the most effective forms of healing and therapeutic art, as focusing on the drawing itself or colouring the mandala can be used in the healing process.

After spending a few years hiking and running on the trails around Kathmandu, I was intrigued by a large body of water to the south of Kathmandu, past the ridge of hills that contain the Champadevi and Bhasmasur peaks and down the southern side: Kulekhani Lake. However, pretty soon the trail gave way to the familiar stone steps you often find on hiking trails in Nepal. I’ve had many a delicious dal bhat here, often with locally picked fiddlehead ferns, known as neugro spinach, and I’ve sometimes been lucky enough to have milk tea made with fresh buffalo milk. The trail towards Kulekhani Lake winds through settlements of stone-built houses nestled amongst the vivid yellow of mustard fields in autumn and the vibrant red of chilies drying in the sun.

Importantly, it meets many dietary requirements as it is gluten-free, dairy-free, low FODMAP, and has a vegan option. As we perfected our basic recipe, we created a fast easy potato salad that tastes great as is, or can be altered with variety of additional optional ingredients. It’s a bit of a twist on the old-fashioned side dish, as it combines the best of the mayonnaise-based cold American version with its vinegar-based, yet warm rival from Germany. – Use only the green tops if you want to keep the recipe low FODMAP Step by step to our simple potato

Host your first live chat, event or wine tasting by following these 6 easy steps: 1. Whether you’re keen to simply engage with existing customers or fans, increase your database, generate direct sales or Club sign-ups set a tangible goal. If your winemaker has excellent communication skills he might be the right fit for a trade or even consumer live event or tasting. But in a lot of cases your Cellar Door or sales staff have a lot more experience chatting about your wines and story, generating sales.

Ask your followers to subscribe Your social tribe might simply not know that you have a newsletter list. Signature Add a link to join your email list to your wineries signature. Be social Post sample content of your newsletters on social and promote it further via ads, linking to your sign-up page. Promos Add newsletter opt-ins to pages on your website that are connected to in-store promos, e.g. necktags.

The right tags can extend the reach of your posts, meaning more people can discover and engage with your content and turn into followers. tagged #wine reach a lot more people but a wine lover searching for #nzpinotnoir is far more likely to notice your post and turn into a follower. The search You can find relevant hashtags by using services such as hashtagify but if you pay attention to the tags used in posts in your feed and by your competitors you’ll quickly find relevant tags. Own it Consider creating a personalised tag such as “sipnzwine” to allow followers to share branded posts with you and their followers.