New Zealand
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Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | Views [4816] | Comments [1]
The long, summer days have come to an end. The clocks have gone back, the days are shorter and the town quiets down. The bathing suit clad backpackers have retreated from the lake and moved onto the next place. The foot paths through the parks carry ... Read more >
Tags: autumn, queenstown
Friday, 19 Apr 2013 | Views [3797] | Comments [1]
Dear Fellow Backpackers and Travelling Nomads: Follow these commandments for hostel living and you will be respected and loved by all whose paths you cross!
Thou Shalt Not:
(1) Steal (this includes food!)
(2) Turn on the main ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, hostels
Saturday, 17 Nov 2012 | Views [17646] | Comments [1]
So you’ve decided to come to New Zealand on a working holiday. I bet that you are really excited about the chance to work and live abroad, as you should be. New Zealand is gorgeous with its mountains, beaches, and other impressive landscapes.... Read more >
Tags: working holiday
Saturday, 17 Nov 2012 | Views [3846] | Comments [1]
I had the amazing opportunity of finding love while travelling. My English partner and I met while in New Zealand working (him being sponsored, myself on working holiday). We are now engaged. It’s all well and good to be with ... Read more >
Saturday, 28 Jul 2012 | Views [5256] | Comments [3]
I remember the first
time I put on my full pack. Man, the thing was heavy. Walking with
it was awkward and I felt like I was carrying the weight of another
person. There were things in that bag I knew I shouldn't have packed
(sleeping bag) ... Read more >
Tags: coming home, living abroad
Sunday, 26 Feb 2012 | Views [12111] | Comments [9]
I log into the immigration New Zealand website for probably the 15 th time this week. I check the status of my work visa application lodged on the 15 th of February. Alas, the words PENDING on my page burn into my brain as I glance at the ... Read more >
Tags: dating while travelling, new zealand, visas
Monday, 2 Jan 2012 | Views [4834]
When you are traveling the Southern Hemisphere around the holidays, you are bound to find yourself in a conversation about the difference of Christmas here and Christmas home. I hear all the time “Christmas should be cold” from an American or English ... Read more >
Sunday, 11 Dec 2011 | Views [4594]
The time had finally come to use the "holiday" part of my working holiday visa. I was coming up on 8 months of working in Queenstown, and it was time to take a break. My boyfriend Steve and I toyed with a few ideas. Shall we go to Fiji? ... Read more >
Sunday, 21 Aug 2011 | Views [60739] | Comments [4]
There are many ways to come into Queenstown. You can fly in from Australia or other parts of New Zealand. On a clear day you get the privilege of watching the large mountains below you as your plane eventually slices between them. You get to ... Read more >
Tags: #blogyourbackyard
Tuesday, 19 Jul 2011 | Views [3859] | Comments [6]
One of the things that makes New Zealand different from home is the light. It’s the way the sun shines, the shadows it casts, the different hues in the sky it creates. I walk to work in the morning and the sun is rising, shining brightly on Mt. Cecil ... Read more >
Tags: new zealand, queenstown
Friday, 22 Apr 2011 | Views [3901] | Comments [3]
Today is the first time since I left for my trip that I have officially unpacked my bag. I just calculated and if my math is correct that is 296 days. Now granted, I have gone through some times where I have sort of unpacked my bag in the past. Staying ... Read more >
Thursday, 31 Mar 2011 | Views [3458] | Comments [2]
It’s a chilly Sunday evening and I am sweeping the leaves away from the front of my work. You can definitely tell that autumn is coming. Just as I am about to push the leaves into the street a gust of wind comes and blows them back into the burger shop.... Read more >
Tags: working holiday
Friday, 11 Mar 2011 | Views [3638] | Comments [1]
I am now a ghostbuster. I now get to spend about 14 hours a week cleaning the hostel that I am staying at, in return for accommodation and free internet. I get to walk around with a vacuum cleaner strapped to my back as I make my way around the hostel.... Read more >
Tags: queenstown
Sunday, 6 Mar 2011 | Views [5542] | Comments [5]
So I would say I have stayed in about 50 hostels now since I started traveling 8 months ago. I’ve been to some amazing ones, average ones, and god awful ones. Over the months I have developed a list of “little things” that hostels can have that really ... Read more >
Tags: hostel
Tuesday, 1 Mar 2011 | Views [2246] | Comments [4]
Tomorrow is the first of March. 8 months away from home. I make this realization as I sit on a small stone beach in Queenstown, New Zealand. Straight ahead of me is the lake, lapping up onto the shore. It's cloudy at the moment and so the water is an ... Read more >
