‘Star People’

We’re not all star-gazers

Photo by Manouchehr Hejazi on Unsplash

Paul and I had been trundling across the South Island for about a week, although I couldn’t be totally sure of that — the days had already taken on a dreamlike quality, not so much crashing into one another as melting gently from one frostbitten morning to the next.

6 o’clock alarms and bus timetables had been replaced by a natural waking with the (8am!) sunrise…