summer was great, quite simply
a small stack of festivals - a few extensive-ish tours of  New Zealand - one microscopic tour in the north island - one album released - and amoung other things, finally making it to Stewart Island for a couple of nights..
too many highlights to pin down the quintessential.. suffice to say [...]

 
day one - heading north it began smooth like a fine aged single malt the four hour journey then around through Back River Road (there’s apparently an old New Zealand made movie about this place we’re told) we land humidified at the Swamp Palace where the greeting party greets and shows us the 2nd hand [...]