NZ Travels : Picton to Wellington Ferry Crossing & Te Papa Museum, Wellington
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 14 We got up earlyish as we were crossing over to the North Island today on the ferry from Picton to Wellington, about 2/3hours away. The drive was very windy so it took us a bit longer than planned, but we managed to get to the ferry just [...]
NZ Travels: Nelson and Abel Tasman
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 13 Woke up in Nelson to the sound of rain, not as torrential as when we were in franz joseph, but definitely rain. It wasn’t too bad a thing though as we were visiting a museum in the morning today so wouldn’t be outside in it [...]
NZ Travels: The Drive from Kaikoura on to Nelson.
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 12 We got up for breakfast in the lodge and reluctantly left the Hapuku lodge and tree houses. Our next stop was Nelson, approx. 4 hours away so we stared driving about 11ish and decided we would stop on the way. We got a little sidetracked [...]
NZ Travels: Kaikoura Dolphin Swimming & Hapuku Lodge
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 11 We had to be up at 7am this morning, in order to eat breakfast and get to the dolphin encounter office. We managed to get up about 7.30 and there fore didn’t have breakfast except a banana, I blame the massage from the day [...]
NZ Travels: Hanmer Springs Spa day & Drive to Kaikoura
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 10 We got up earlyish, I’m sure it’s getting later each day, and did all the things you have to do when you have a campervan i.e. emptying the loo, water and re-filling with clean water – lovely stuff. Then we drove into the centre of [...]
NZ Travels: Franz Joseph and the drive to Hanmer Springs
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 9 To say it rained all night is an understatement, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such torrential rain and that’s saying something living in the UK. It rained all night and was still raining in the morning, everywhere was flooding! Consequently our trip was cancelled, [...]
NZ Travels: Lake Wanaka and drive to Franz Joseph
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks:December 2008: Day 8 We woke up pretty early and left the campsite, deciding to have breakfast in the town in a café by the lake. It was a bit windy but a beautiful sunny day. Much nicer that the UK weather still! We ate in a little café on [...]
NZ Travels: Queenstown to Wanaka and Lake Wanaka
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks:December 2008: Day 7 We drove to Lake Wanaka, which is about an hour and a half’s drive from Queenstown (by this point I would consider this to be ‘nearby’!) and then just spent most of the day there chilling, doing washing, checking emails and so on. The town here is [...]
NZ Travels : Queenstown and Glenorchy
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks:December 2008: Day 6 Woke up an hour before the alarm again, so that’s about 6am here. We had planned to go horseriding in Glenorchy today so we were getting up at 7am, to leave by about 8am latest. Hmmm, didn’t quite go to plan as I had emailed the [...]
NZ Travels : Te Anau to Milford Sound, then driving to Queenstown
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks:December 2008: Day 5 Woke up feeling much more with it today, think I’ve finally got used to the timescale over here. We woke up early again and started the drive to Milford Sound from Te Anau. This is along one main road only so if you travel here using [...]
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