Palmerston
North
Triathlon
Soap Box
Welcome
to
Margaret's Back Garden
Relax
on the deck for a while
and make yourself at home!
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family history. Please feel free to
contact me if you discover a link.
I
hope you will enjoy a selection of
photographs I have taken,
both in
New
Zealand and overseas.
Travel
is one of my interests, and a few of my journeys are described here.
The latest pieces added are about Montserrat
in Spain, and Morocco.
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Pont
Valentré |
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In
2006 I spent about six months overseas, including two months in
France, five weeks in Ireland.....You can read more about it, as
it happened, on my travel blog,
Kiwi Nomad's Wanderings. |
Some of the families I am researching are:
Paternal: RIORDAN,
MALONE, BURKE,
QUANE, PHILP, NICHOLSON
Maternal: LALOR, PAYN, SCETTRINI,
SCILACCI, MOURANT, HENEBERRY, ROWLAND, ARBUCKLE
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You
can also see some photos from my trip on my photo blog |
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Dingle,
Ireland
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and my journey to find their war graves in Northern France.
| The mountain of Montserrat near Barcelona in Spain is a natural park and the whole area also has immense religious significance. |
| One Easter morning in the Catlins in the south of New Zealand, I saw hoiho - yellow eyed-penguin - make their way down to the sea. Read about it here. |
| Read
about my training for the January 2005 Women's Triathlon.
See photos of the Manawatu countryside as I cycle though it to on my training rides! |
| In August 2006 I climbed Croagh Patrick, the 'holy mountain' in Co Mayo, Ireland. I had some great views at the start, then the weather turned bad, making it a memorable day. |