2006

29th Jan - Franz Joseph Glacier

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 29 Jan 2006 | Views [875] | Comments [1]

We left Wellington under a big raincloud, even Lisa and ex-DB Wellington native couldn't sort the weather out for us but she did give me a nice tour of the place. Sea Kayaking On Wednesday we  jumped on the ferry and headed south to sunny Nelson ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: 4. 29th Jan - West Coast South Island

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 29 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: 3. 24th Jan - Taupo, Hawkes Bay, Wellington

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 24 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery

24th Jan, Hawkes Bay and Wellington

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 24 Jan 2006 | Views [925] | Comments [1]

Long lost relatives... We've just spent the last week or so catching up with my long lost distant cousins and I feel i'm making a start at catching Eoin up where family size is concerned now.  As fate would have it, my grandmother Eva's cousin Sue ... Read more >

Tags: Family

Gallery: 2. 17th Jan - Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 17 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery

17th January - Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 17 Jan 2006 | Views [436]

We've now reached Rotorua - a very geothermally active area, in other words it smells of eggs and there are lots of steaming ponds, bubbling pools of mud and the occaisonal geyser around.  We have wandered around the town's park and marvelled at all ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Gallery: 1. 11th Jan New Zealand - North Island

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 13 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery

11th Jan - on the beach

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 11 Jan 2006 | Views [765] | Comments [3]

Auckland So, after a long but uneventful journey from Ireland (though i did enjoy the foot massage macines in Singapore Airport, mmmm), we arrived in Auckland.  The rest of NZ seems to view this place as a horrible, over-crowded dirty place but we ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine