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Tag Archives: New Zealand
NZ: Fiordland to Makarora via Wanaka (and Rippon Winery)
Sun 23 Nov: After several great days in Fiordland it was time to leave. We set off from Manapouri relatively early and stopped in Te Anau for petrol. We found the best pie shop we’d been to so far on … Continue reading
NZ: Doubtful Sound
Sat 22 Nov: We had arranged to go on a tour including a cruise on Doubtful Sound. This is more difficult to get to than Milford Sound as you can’t drive there. It’s also 3 times longer and 10 times … Continue reading
NZ: Milford Sound
Fri 21 Nov: Fiordland gets so much rain that they measure it in metres. Typically it gets between 7 and 9 metres per year, so we were expecting a fairly damp day. But our good fortune continued. It started overcast … Continue reading
NZ: Towards Fiordland
Thu 20 Nov: We headed down to the lakefront to the bar / cafe at the station to see if they did breakfast and got a bit of a surprise. Having seen the steam engines for the Kingston Flyer in … Continue reading
NZ: Mt. Cook
Wed 19 Nov: The noise of the wind almost blowing the flysheet away meant we didn’t have a great night’s sleep in the tent, and we got up to a cloudier day. After a quick breakfast we headed off on … Continue reading
NZ: Heading South
Tue 18 Nov: After getting up at some ridiculous hour in the morning and driving to Auckland airport, we found ourselves on a 06:10 flight to Christchurch. It was a bit cloudy over the North Island, but as we got … Continue reading
NZ: Auckland
Mon 17 Nov: Audkland is known as the City of Sails, and there certainly are a lot of boats. Although we were walking along the waterfront, so perhaps that’s not surprising. There’s quite a lot of reference to the America’s … Continue reading
NZ: The Poor Knights
Sun 16 Nov: Cousteau rated them among the best 10 divesites in the world. I don’t have his broad experience, but I was pretty impressed with the Poor Knights. We were diving with Dive! Tutukaka and they wanted us at … Continue reading
NZ: The Journey
Rather belatedly some blog entries relating to my recent trip to New Zealand with Rita. On Fri 14 November after the traditional last minute panics, I managed to get out of the office and to the Airport Express at 2pm. … Continue reading
New Zealand
Been a bit quiet recently as I was away in New Zealand for a fortnight. Anyone who’s been will be able to tell you that it’s a stunningly beautiful country. I had a great time and it was a bit … Continue reading