Paul and Janet's Travel Stories

Saturday 4th April Port Douglas to Brisbane

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 4 Apr 2009 | Views [108] | Comments [1]

We had another excellent meal at the Treetops Hotel on Friday evening before retiring to bed. Unfortunately we were awoken very early with some very sad news that a very dear friend of ours back home, David Goldsmith, had died. He had been very ill and ... Read more >


Friday 3rd April Port Douglas

UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Views [117] | Comments [2]

We had a super meal last night with Janette and Steve at The Hog's Breath at Port Douglas Marina. Steve knows Ipswich well as he imports fancy goods from Hong Kong, through Felixstowe and among the companies he supplies is The Wharf in Ipswich. Up early ... Read more >


Thursday 2nd April Port Douglas

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 2 Apr 2009 | Views [99] | Comments [1]

After our report yesterday, we returned to the Hotel via the little bus which runs in and out of Port Douglas every 10 minutes. We then went off in search of the beach, which is very nearby. It stretches for miles and miles and has golden sand and blue, ... Read more >


Wednesday 1st April Auckland to Port Douglas, Australia

UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 | Views [116] | Comments [3]

Having completed our journal yesterday, we then walked into the Sky Tower in Auckland and thought we were back in Las Vegas, but in a much nicer way - no strange men with beer bottles, thank goodness. We were in an enormous casino, loads of gaming tables ... Read more >


Monday 30th March Wellington to Auckland, Tuesday 31st Auckland

UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [108] | Comments [3]

Sunday evening we had another meal at the Wellington Harbourside, a giant platter for two, which we ate most of but took some home in a doggy bag for the next day. Monday was a very long day. We were up at 5.45am for a short walk to the railway station ... Read more >


Saturday 28th March Christchurch to Wellington, Sunday 29th Wellington

UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 29 Mar 2009 | Views [125] | Comments [5]

Friday evening we went to Coyote in Christchurch for a very enjoyable meal in a good vibrant restaurant. Our alarm went off at 5.30am on Saturday morning as our transport to Christchurch Station arrived to pick us up at 6.30am for our train leaving ... Read more >


Friday 27th March Hokitika to Christchurch

UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 27 Mar 2009 | Views [120] | Comments [3]

When we returned to our studio on Thursday afternoon, we went for another walk on the beach in the evening sunshine and watched the sun setting over the Tasman Sea. We met the couple in the studio next to ours and discovered that he had friends in Great ... Read more >


Thursday 26th March Fox Glacier to Hokitika

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 26 Mar 2009 | Views [84]

We left Fox Glacier early on Thursday morning, heading north towards Hokitika - not such a long journey as yesterday and not so many WOWs. But it was a very picturesque journey through forests of trees and across very flat plains. We passed more herds ... Read more >


Wednesday 25th March Queenstown to Fox Glacier

UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009 | Views [95] | Comments [3]

We were sorry to leave Queenstown where the sun had shone the whole time we were there and it was T shirts all day long. We had another good meal out on Tuesday evening and began our journey early on Wednesday morning as we knew we had a long way to ... Read more >


Tuesday 24th March Queenstown

UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009 | Views [103] | Comments [5]

Queenstown is nestled on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, overlooked by the majestic 'Remarkables' (one of two mountain ranges running north to south in the world, the other one being The Rockies). The town was named because "it was fit for Queen Victoria"... Read more >


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