What I’d do
1 far Poderi Crisci winery:
Food is never very
from my mind and in the peak of summer I would travel to Poderi Crisci vineyard and restaurant on Waiheke Island with my beautiful wife Renee and our children, some of her wha¯ nau and my mother, sister, brother-in-law and their kids. We’d sit at a long table and eat over four or five hours, letting the kids go free-range in the vineyard while we talk, laugh and imbibe. My mouth is watering thinking about fried zucchini flowers, buffalo mozzarella, local wine and olive oil.
2 Waiheke, Snorkelling on Waiheke:
Seeing as I’m on
I would go for a long snorkel (or as my kids call it, goggling) at Enclosure Bay. Last time we saw stingrays. I believe it’s the place where some kids had a close encounter with orca. I would have loved to have been there to see it.
3 (seems A Vespa date:
On a warm summer evening
like a dream right now) I would leave the kids with my mother and coax Renee out for a date, driven on the back of my Vespa. I still get a buzz from scooting around. The sense of carefree-ness and stylish fun makes me feel like I’m in a film. It’s not my midlife crisis, I haven’t grown out of my teenage Vespa passion.
4 invitation, Auckland Art Gallery:
If Renee did accept my I would take her to the Auckland Art Gallery. I really love the architecture of the gallery and every time I see something there I am stimulated creatively. There is so much to learn and make in this life.
5 favourite Film fanatic:
One of my pastimes is watching films. If one of the foreign film festivals — or in my case the Cinema Italiano Festival — was on, I would watch a raft of weird and wonderful films. In the English-speaking world we seem to get such narrow bands of perspectives. When you see foreign films the world really opens up. It’s like travelling, without the jet lag.