On The Road with Opshop

On the road with Opshop - next stop... memory lane

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:03:40 -0800

Neudorf Winery is a good 40 minute drive east of Nelson proper, deep in the heart of wine country. At least I think it's east, all I know for sure was that we were driving to the left for 40 minutes and it felt like east.

On the road with Opshop - What's in a name?

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:47:33 -0800

February 17th - Cooks Garden Wanganui

It struck me as odd that the signage for our venue read "Cooks Garden".

Only because we were listening to Jim Mora's National Radioshow on the way, More FM of course being our station of choice usually - hehe, and there is apparently some debate in the world of punctuation (that sounds like a nice place to take a holiday) about the use, or misuse of the apostrophe. ...

On the road with Opshop - won't rain on the parade

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:31:01 -0800

February 20th - Mystery Creek Winery Hamilton.

I woke up to the rain absolutely pelting the roof to my hotel room.

This was around 8am. Come 12:30pm nothing had changed and going by the weather update on t.v there looked to be no let up as the North Island was being hit by a weather bomb coming off the Tasman sea.

It wasn't cold, in fact it was hot which made things worse as it became humid and sticky. ...

On the road with Opshop - What a way to see Hawke's Bay

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:55:22 -0800

Well, here I am, sitting in a motel room in Havelock North taking a bit of a break, we've had a great past few days so I thought I'd share some of the highlights with y'all...

On the road with Opshop - summer's heating up

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:17:05 -0800

Hello everyone. Welcome to the first of many Opshop blogs from the road on the MORE FM Winery tour 2009.

On the road with Opshop - geared up to go

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:48:51 -0800

Well, it's been a great summer so far for Opshop. We spent the holidays traveling around this beautiful country of ours playing shows in all the great holiday spots.