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Trip: New Zealand

There are [16] stories from my trip: New Zealand


Gallery: auckland

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 5 Feb 2008 | Photo Gallery


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Auckland. All's well that ends well.

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 28 Jan 2008 | Views [2660]

Aah.... Finally we can relax. The road to Auckland was surprising and our final evening in the bus wasn't quite as I'd expected.  I 'spose it shouldn't have been a surprise to find that the sprawl began over fifty kilometres from the centre of the ... Read more >

Tags: I should have known better!


Gallery: penultimate stage. north island sprint

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 23 Jan 2008 | Photo Gallery


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Penultimate stage. The North island sprint.

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 23 Jan 2008 | Views [560]

It suddenly dawned on me yesterday that we had eight days to go before flying out of here, and then the van broke. We increased our pace as we travelled up the west coast of the south island, and started on a relentless driving frenzy up through the ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Gallery: road trip stage 2.

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 14 Jan 2008 | Photo Gallery


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Road trip stage 2. Lots of places and wide open spaces.

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 14 Jan 2008 | Views [516]

Well, it's been another busy few days. We've slept next to more lakes, walked through more rainforests to more waterfalls and hidden beaches, got the bus stuck on a beach and over the last few days we've been in a campsite to enjoy the blessing that ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Gallery: Road trip stage one

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Jan 2008 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Goodbye Christchurch

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Jan 2008 | Photo Gallery


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Road trip stage 1 Christchurch-Dunedin

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Jan 2008 | Views [736] | Comments [1]

So, we finally got on our merry way for stage 1 of the road trip and, so far it's been sooo good! we've headed south to Dunedin, but in a rather indirect way.  Rather than tracing the coast, we went inland a bit and took in some beautiful mountainous ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


Goodbye Christchurch!

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 1 Jan 2008 | Views [521]

Finally, the time has come for us to be on our way. This stage has been pretty special and we've made some great friends who we'll never forget, but I can't wait to get going now. So long Christchurch and goodbye to all the wonderful people we've met.... Read more >

Tags: Friends


Merry Christmas people!

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 19 Dec 2007 | Views [833] | Comments [1]

Being on the other side of the world makes it a little tricky to contact everyone individually, so I thought I'd wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that everyone has a happy new year. It's a pretty odd time for us, and we'll be missing all you ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase


New stuff that's happened

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 6 Dec 2007 | Views [486]

It's been a bit of a busy week and we've been up to some newsworthy stuff in the last few days. Lisa had a significant birthday, and we celebrated by taking a bit of time out to go on some adventures. First we went to see Muse in concert which was ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing


Big pink house

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 Nov 2007 | Views [3386]

We have moved into a big pink house owned by a man named Kim.   Kim's a very nice man and quite tolerant of our vagueness regarding our stay.  Erm.. maybe we'll go next week, but we might stay for a coupla months.  perhaps.. maybe! We've bought a shonky ... Read more >

Tags: Work


Trip to Kaikora

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 25 Oct 2007 | Views [571] | Comments [1]

We've taken a couple of days out from the job/home search in Christchurch to visit a beautiful little seaside town called Kaikoura. There are loads of residential marine mammals in Kaikoura, because the sea surrounding it is so rich in food, and there's ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures


Gallery: New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 19 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Stopping for a bit
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Goodbye land of the free(way). Hello garden city!

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 | Views [5206] | Comments [2]

We've arrived in Christchurch! We landed a couple of hours ago and are staying in a little suburb called New Brighton. New Brighton's on the banks of the river Avon and even has a little bike shop called John's cycles.  Weird!  If we decide that we ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing