Destination: New Zealand
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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 | By lisa-harber | Views [12815] | Comments [10]
Paul and I are now in New Zealand, after a really long flight, (two days in total) we arrived to find that it was warm and sunny! Yay, since then we have hit a patch of rainy cold weather, but I have decided that this won't last too long!! Waiting for ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 | By reidy | Views [71] | Comments [14]
Rio de Janerio. Love it. Temperatures between 34 and 40 degrees ahhhh. This is the beach we're staying at, Ipanema beach and we're one block back from it, swimming until 7pm at night, quite lovely. We're absolutely loving Brazil. Pity about the ... Read more >
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 | By jonnygo | Views [621] | Comments [2]
The most lethal sport in New Zealand is skydiving. Its SO dangerous (and I quote the promotional leaflet,) that there's a, " departure" every hour. No chance I'll be going on that one then. A death every hour seems like very bad odds indeed.... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 | By gborchers3 | Views [164] | Comments [8]
Well...What we lost in action yesterday we defiantly made up for today! The journey started off good with a beautiful and DRY morning which gave us a view of the area we were actually in. The busy guy was right! It was beautiful (see the picture of ... Read more >
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 | By yanni-timmie | Views [212]
Hey Everybody we're loving new zealand, Even ive been brave enough to try ome climbing and kayaking!!! We've been very lucky here in New Zealand we got to swim with Dolphins, hold a penguin, go caving in the famous wattimo caves and so much more.... Read more >
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 | By simoz | Views [282] | Comments [6]
From Dunedin we travelled to Bluff, had oysters (very salty), fish & chips and hung off the bottom of NZ. Then on to Te Anau, a quiet little village with a great little pub (great feed here) and a coupla drinkies. On to Milford Sound; what a drive ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 | By gborchers3 | Views [154] | Comments [6]
AHHHH! I'm starting to get my photos and my stories jumbled together!!! I suppose it was only a matter of time until i screwed it up ;). Just incase your looking a the pictures wondering what the heck is going on. The shell looking things with the ... Read more >
Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [2458] | Comments [8]
There's a clever little expression, birthed by L&P, a popular (and tasty) native NZ drink, that goes like this: "World Famous in New Zealand" Now, you and I both know that this expression makes no sense. But 'round these parts, it works.... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 | By hanna_and_sarah | Views [1550] | Comments [8]
Remember making pirates hats out of old newspapers? Flying a kite made from sticks and magazines? I bet you do. But thousands of kids don’tNo matter where in the world, kids are kids. Working with children in India I was making trains and crocodiles ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [1068] | Comments [8]
When was the last time you spent four days carrying around 50 kilos on your back, camped under the stars and hiked 51 kilometers? Not recently? Well, for us it was less than a week ago. New Zealand has multi-day tramping tracks throughout the country ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 | By gborchers3 | Views [191] | Comments [5]
The pictures are FINALLY up!!!! i put about 3 hours of work into this on pay-per-minute internet, so i hope someone actually looks at all these! Post up some comments so i know there is interest ;) Today was quite cool. We are staying in a town named ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 | By gborchers3 | Views [164] | Comments [5]
Its been a few days with not a whole lot to report unfortunately; largely due to the fact that most of our trip the last few days has been a repeat of places we have already been :(. I do have a few good tidings to report though! On Tuesday we decided ... Read more >
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 | By reidy | Views [126] | Comments [4]
WE NOW have photos! Well what started out as a planned trip on a gondalla turned into a 500km drive through the mountains of Salta. We arrived in Salta, far north of Argentina after a 16 hour bus ride through the night and had dinner at a crazy 10.40pm ... Read more >
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 | By reidy | Views [95] | Comments [7]
Öther appropriate titles: 1. Machu Picchu Anti Climax 2. You have got to be kidding 3. No, you really have to be kidding 4. 3rd world slashing Okay so here the story goes. The one place you have to go when visiting South America is Machu Pïcchu ... Read more >
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 | By smileynix | Views [281] | Comments [4]
Hellooo out there! Arrived in NZ last Wednesday, Christchurch on South Island to be precise. Was lovely to be met by my friend Karen, who emigrated here with her family nearly two years ago. We used to work together at Exeter Friendly Society. I'm staying ... Read more >
Tags: soooo, cute!
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 | By mattnpete | Views [165] | Comments [4]
After a few days sunning it up in The Bay Of Islands we decided to head further north to the much spoken about 90 Mile Beach. What a waste of time that was, the beach is huge and drivable, thats about all it had going for it to be fair, we stayed and ... Read more >
Tags: wierd
inbred
pete
Mon, 18 May 2009 | By dianasaurus | Views [121] | Comments [4]
Last night in Auckland around 11 p.m. (6 a.m. Houston) on a Monday. I was hoping to get up on the SkyTower tonight to get some good pics of the city at night, but it's been quite rainy all day and visibility would not be good. But unpredictable weather ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By clfreitas | Views [146] | Comments [3]
Começa uma nova aventura. Essa viagem foi planejada sim, mas o objetivo é mais do que turismo. Estou aqui no que gosto de chamar de Terra Média tentado começar uma vida nova. Já deu certo pra tanta gente, por que não para mim? A new adventure ... Read more >
Tags: auckland, airport
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [1006] | Comments [6]
We've got Football (they call it Gridiron). We've got Baseball. We've got Hockey. They've got Football (we call it Soccer). They've got Rugby. They've got cricket (what is this??). Now, Gen and I were fortunate (read: spent the money) ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Tue, 6 May 2008 | By sl0ggs | Views [503] | Comments [3]
Today I collected my transport and home for the next two months. After a leisurely start at the hotel and another mahuusive breakfast we were collected by taxi and taken to the depot. The company I hired with are called 'Jucy' which I still find amusing.... Read more >
Tags: driving, walking, swimming, hitchhikers, history, the great outdoors, shopping
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 | By bramgies | Views [233] | Comments [3]
Terwijl wij dit schrijven zijn de eerste 2,5 week van onze reis voorbij en lijkt Kuala Lumpur maanden geleden! Het is onvoorstelbaar hoeveel je in zo’n korte tijd eigenlijk kan doen en meemaken. Inmiddels zijn we wel een beetje steden moe aan het worden ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 2 Jun 2008 | By romsterrom | Views [218] | Comments [3]
Having a great time in Nimes - this hostel is really awesome. Lovely staff and excellent new facilities. Am in a dorm room (12 E per night) with other single travellers which has worked out great. Spent today with Jess (an Aussie), Claire (from the ... Read more >
Wed, 4 Jun 2008 | By romsterrom | Views [195] | Comments [3]
Hi All Writing this from Annecy - a town in the French Alps. Chamonix didn`t end up having any rooms free so i settled on the HI hostel here. Quite a hike up a confusing hill but it has a great view for all of that. Am sharing a room with 2 guys ... Read more >
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 | By simoz | Views [152] | Comments [3]
Dinner Cruise was great - only got lost once on the way there (but it was worth it - the scenery around some (unknown) harbour was g8 (how about that for trendy!). Food on board was fabulous (prawns, mussels, and great lamd and fish. Paihia was a pretty ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 | By dkky | Views [99] | Comments [3]
Apres l’épisode de la maison au milieu de champ de kiwi on passe à celui de la caravane. Elle sert de chambre et l’électricité y est disponible. Mes nouveaux colocataires sont donc Leo, Joy et enfin Sue (une jeune femme d’une cinquantaine d’année ... Read more >
