Kurt of Gerolstein

. for the next two to three months... My friend Florence snapped our dear old ship during our last trip, and had the good idea to use it as ...

. Well, my horsey season in New Zealand is nearly over and I have to say it hasn’t been marked by very much racegoing, nor indeed by many ex...

* What happened to the rest of December? What has happened to two-thirds of January? What happened to my stay in New Zealand? In two weeks ...

13 December 2008. The day finally came. Two years and ten months after I raised Doug’s hand in the Yearling Sales auction ring, paid my mone...

* But they're not the only picturesque beasts at Gerolstein I'm Minnie. I destroy mice, chase birds, climb trees, devour biscuits .....

* Today Elena (driver: Blair Rennie) strutted her stuff around Rangiora racecourse, in the company of Wendy and her Ned. A brisk mile and a ...

This week, it isn’t any of our usual horsey starlets who have hit the headlines.. Elena fittens up steadily on the beach, with a debut at th...

* Who can resist them? Lucie is now two months old and D'Arcy more than three weeks...

* What a day. Up at the crack of dawn, and into Christchurch for a session of what’s politely called dentistry – slashing, scraping, stitchi...

* Saturday was quite a day in the Gerolsteiner horse world. For, today, our two little newcomers met their ‘fathers’. I don’t mean their bio...

* DAZIE..... is a boy! Is that my UNCLE? Doing elevation at less than one day old? *

* Four weeks already. Four weeks of New Zealand spring. An irrational mixture of cold, very cold, wet and occasionally fine and just very oc...

(But mostly me) by Lucy de Gerolstein (aged nearly one month already) This is me when I was really young. Just two weeks old. Before I becam...

* I know its been some time since Tahiti. Suffice it that the Boularibank made it safely to port at the time forseen, that the taxi fare fro...

My old memories of Tahiti may not disappear, but after today I have a new one or two to go alongside them. For our ‘Safari’ – a tour utterly...

* So here I am, or rather ‘was’ (as I’m writing as the voyage nears its end), again. The Boularibank is a sister ship to the Tikei and the G...

Of course, in the end, it wasn’t three days at all it was five. But there was good news as well as bad. La Vague isn’t entirely gone: it has...

My voyage to the north has been so full of events and discoveries that I could fill a blog twice daily with my tales. But I won’t. I’ll trus...