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Like Fishing

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1008]

"Hitchhiking is like fishing: sometimes you get a big catch, sometimes you get a small catch, yet sometimes you get no catch." Those were the words of a Maori fella who picked me up outside of Napier last year. There couldn't be a better analogy because ... Read more >

Southland and East Coast Roadtrip

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 | By erin_and_pete | Views [959]

Dunedin We started the roadtrip in Invercargill the day after what has become known as "My Incident". Erin drove us to the "Niagra Falls Cafe" where I dropped off the wet suit I had borrowed the day before. We had a cup of coffee ... Read more >

Day 1 Arriving in Auckland and Collecting our Apollo Motorhome

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 | By mudskipper | Views [891]

Intro: This blog summarises our NZ holiday. We seem to only do an overseas trip once every 3 years, and what with our son now 15yo, I had wondered if this may be the last time he would want to travel overseas with us. Considering this, I wanted ... Read more >

Tags: apollo camper, apollo motorhomes, auckland, nz

Good Bye Auckland

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 | By globalgabi | Views [640]

Well, time to leave. Hard to say good bye to friends. One eye is smiling, the other has a tear. Will miss Nico. Had my last dinner with him on the way to the airport. Yummy, yummy. Finally made it Gina's where we'd been wanting to go for a long ... Read more >

Tags: airport, auckland, travel

Christchurch

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 | By monica_gill | Views [608] | Comments [1]

Wow, I only have one more month of travel--only three weeks of it in New Zealand! The whole trip has been wonderful, but I am starting to really look forward to the options for when I get back to the US. All of the traveling here has reminded me how ... Read more >

Tags: Relaxation

Traveling (wo)man.

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 | By bettedarling | Views [498]

Hi All. Well, I'm leaving Camp Hill, and I had a wonderful time. The universe did remind me about balance, however, as after I wrote my glowing account of my time in the mountains, we returned to a power outage thanks to a storm. So, in the rain, we unpacked ... Read more >

S New Zealand-E Coast

Mon, 24 May 2010 | By joannah_metz | Views [436]

After leaving Queenstown, I headed south to Te Anau and then onto Milford Sound. I did a boat ride out in the fjord and it was a beautiful sunny day. Milford Sound was pretty - lots of perfect U-shaped valleys carved by glaciers. It looked kind of ... Read more >

Porto - Lisbon - Istanbul - Florence

Tue, 24 May 2011 | By wilde1 | Views [408]

Hi Just a quick update. Portugal was HOT and nice but one week was enough. I actually found most of it too touristy for my liking. We felt the 5.9 earthquake in Istanbul. We had just gone to bed. It was a bit scary but we are fine. I ... Read more >

And we're off!

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 | By gav_and_do | Views [407]

28 August - I write this from the Singapore Airlines Lounge in Singapore post a 10 hour+ flight. It's around 11:30pm NZ time, 7:30pm Singapore time - and we feel surprisingly awake. There's a 4 hour wait here until our flight to Paris so hope we can ... Read more >

Tags: singapore, singapore airlines lounge

DAY 53. Waihi Take Three

Sun, 18 Dec 2016 | By joyaroundtheworld | Views [250]

I showered and started to pack up all of my things. I've accumulated so much since the beginning of this trip that I've long ago ran out of room in my pack. I left the hostel and walked down to the waterfront and spent some time there. I meandered around, ... Read more >