Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:

[brianaobli@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets hello

[joncounts@mastodon.nz]

@rdm @Daveosaurus @sundogplanets

[ghouston@mamot.fr]

@sundogplanets Sas-kwatch-wan? Is that even a real word?

Edit: my cliff face photo from Tasmania.

[dziadekmick@mstdn.social]

@mrowe @grb090423 @sundogplanets

They used to be endemic - the Cona coffee machine. Which was filtered to be just about palatable but a bit weak for my taste and then left to boiled dry on the hot plate until it was burnt and unprintable.

I think most hotels favour this style of coffee in their restaurants.

[corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets With you on the drip coffee thing. Went through a whole expensive dilettante coffee thing. Found out I lack the early morning patience for pourovers and such. What I like is strong unadorned 10-oz cup of coffee I make for myself at home in a drip aka filter machine that heats the water to the right temperature. (Most machines do not and those that do have ridiculously inflated prices.)

[jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz]

@Daveosaurus @DziadekMick @symbology @sundogplanets

NZ has s curious history with espresso machines. They began to become popular post WW2 but due to severe government-imposed import restrictions following the Labour Government's "black budget" of 1958 it became very difficult to get parts for espresso machines imported from Italy so they virtually disappeared until returning with vengeance in the late 70s early 80s.

[ada@blahaj.zone]

@rdm@aus.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social And this one at Kingscliff

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@DziadekMick @mrowe @sundogplanets

Oh, I remember those!

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Here’s a little experiment (for science, you know?): can you sing “Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi” to them and tell me what their reaction is? Thank you.

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@dmian Usually it's just joining in. Though there may be sections of society that don't hold with their kids being taught that foreign language

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@nantucketlit
Just ask for an Americano
Way I was told it got that name was because many of the US soldiers in Italy didn't like espresso, so the helpful locals worked out how to make an approximation of what they were used to with an espresso machine. When I was younger most old fashioned cafes and tearooms had Kona drip machines whilst the trendy cafes had espresso.
There is a place in town that does both, the drip coffee is a bottomless cup, so that's what I go for.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@rdm @sundogplanets

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@thefathippy @Su_G @rdm @sundogplanets

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@rdm
Most of the people I know (apart from family) who've dealt with a fatal outdoors incident it's being on that track. Almost all of the woefully ill-prepared people or the ones who push on in the wrong weather get away with it. But there are so very many of them. That sign is part of a project to try and reduce the number of times Search and Rescue have to go up and retrieve someone
@falkovdg @sundogplanets

[doppelganger75@mastodon.world]

@ada @sundogplanets @rdm How about we just go to the movies?

[richrockster@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets New Zealand Road Safety adverts are also in another league and do not play around either (see also Aussie ones too).

[mu@mastodon.nz]

@schwestaline @sundogplanets yup, but depends where you are

[mu@mastodon.nz]

@sundogplanets you should see our road safety ads!

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@colinburgess "…I thought of something but instead said a mutter."

@sundogplanets

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets @at I’m impressed every time a European nails my ancestral “Massachusetts” on the first try.