Category Archives: New Zealand

Today was one of those days. Again it was bright and sunny this morning, and ideal day to go up the gondola to get a great view of the town and the lake. The gondola was meant to open at … Continue reading →

We woke to another sunny and clear day. After breakfast we headed off to a place called Puzzling World. This was a building that had a number of optical illusions, sloping rooms, snooker balls that roll uphill etc. It was … Continue reading →

A little cloudier first thing this morning but it was dry. We had a long drive ahead of with our final destination being Wanaka in the Southern Alps. The first (and only) planned stop today was at the Fox Glacier, … Continue reading →

We woke up this morning to calm winds and blue skies. After breakfast we headed back down to the beach where we watched the waves crashing in. Although the sea was still pretty rough, the scenery had changed completely from … Continue reading →

Today was a day of deep meditative reconciliation. Well actually today was a day for doing almost nothing as the weather was not at its best. We had torrential rain and gale force winds all night and well into the afternoon. … Continue reading →

I am finally up to date with the blog, hopefully I can keep it this way. I have just discovered one entry that didn’t get published. If you scroll down the page there is a “new” entry form the Cook Islands entitled … Continue reading →

Starting with this post I have reduced the quality of the pictures to make the uploads smaller. The higher quality ones were taking forever to upload and sucking up all the bandwidth. Let me know if they are OK, in … Continue reading →

A beautiful start to the day with blue skies and good visibility. After breakfast we headed out to find the northern most part of the South Island, a place called Cape Farewell on Farewell spit. We headed out of Nelson  … Continue reading →

Just a quick note, the blog is running a few days behind “real time”, as internet is not as easily accessible as I had hoped. The blog is being written each night, and is uploaded when I can get the WiFi going. … Continue reading →

Really must try to get the sleeping under control, for the last week 9PM bed seems to have become the norm, but wake up time hasn’t got correspondingly earlier. Must be all the fresh air! We hit the road about … Continue reading →