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5 Must-Do Things in Napier, New Zealand

Fri, 2 Sep 2011 | By libby-k8 | Views [9627]

Napier , fondly referred to as Napesville by many of its younger inhabitants, is an almost 60,000-person town, is on the East Coast of the North Island. While it's not a big city, it has plenty of wineries, cafés, fruit, and Art Déco ... Read more >

Tags: #blogyourbackyard, art deco, art déco, art deco weekend, hawkes bay, napier, new zealand, tourism, what to do in napier, wineries

WWOOFing in Hastings – The Chef’s Garden

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 | By courtneycarmen | Views [2090]

Arriving in Hastings after my last bus day for a while I was picked up by my host Clyde and driven to the farm just on the edge of the city. The morning was spent driving through familiar North Island scenery stopping at Mt. Bruce along the way ... Read more >

Now THAT's a KNIFE

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 | By thecobb | Views [1186]

Well I have learned a new craft. Knife-making is without a doubt a great thrill. I ended up the only person at the shop yesterday, so I received personal attention. My knife is going to appear on the website eventually. I am so happy with it, and between ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Whirinaki Forest

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 | By melissa | Views [1010] | Comments [4]

i thought i was safe in new zealand. there are no bears, no wild cats, no snakes, no huge insects, or anything that would really do you any harm. so saturday night i settled into my sleeping bag in the tent with complete ease, ready for a restful ... Read more >

Tags: adventures

Getting ready to do the ET Highway

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [998]

We rode out from San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge and headed south and east to Yosemite National Forest stopping in Modesto for food at the Firken Fox. We had booked a night at the Yosemite Bug Hostel where we stayed in a tent cabin, on arrival ... Read more >

Queenstown to Kiakoura (Pt 2)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 | By gborchers3 | Views [838] | 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 >

End of days...

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 | By vik | Views [554]

So this is all slightly new to me and also slightly backwards, its my last day in New Zealand and my first post, go figure! I thought I'd tell you all about my adventures as I can remember them, so we'll start with my last days at the dairy farm... ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Day 224: Auckland to the Bay of Islands

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [522]

Monday 16th June We woke up to a miserable, rainy day in Auckland. The docklands were covered in a thick blanket of rain and the skies were a dark grey. The cooler and wetter weather that met us on our arrival into New Zealand the day before had ... Read more >

Nach Taupo und zum Selfcontainment

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 | By bernardmarlenlilly | Views [442]

Wir sind nur schon einige Tage mit unserem Toyota Hiace unterwegs nach Süden. Zunächst haben auf dem Weg nach Taupo das Wairakai Thermal Valley (Tal) besucht, das leider recht überschaubar und wenig spektakulär war. Zumindest gab ... Read more >

Akaroa Bay, Christchurch

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By scandicno | Views [356] | Scholarship Entry

It was another one of those beautiful days, gleaming with the merciless summer sun shining down onto Akaroa Bay. For me, that meant another day of shoveling a dozen wheelbarrows full of horse s*#& before taking guests on horseback over the property, telling ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

A Coastal Paradise

Mon, 12 May 2014 | By letrishamouton | Views [318]

When people travel to New Zealand they end up in the big towns, Auckland and Hamilton, but on the North Island there is a coastal town rich with history, diversity and a walkway which offers quiet and peaceful thinking. New Plymouth is a coastal ... Read more >

Tags: beaches, lights, new plymouth, new zealand, womad

A tunnel behind the ferns

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [207] | Scholarship Entry

A couple of hours south of Auckland, New Zealand, starts the Coromandel Peninsula: beautiful beaches, flourishing nature, history, tourists everywhere. In between the most famous Karangahake Gorge and the Pinnacles track, though, Broken Hills lay forgotten ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship