I hope you all enjoyed the festive period wether it be with or without the family or friends, at home or somewhere exotic. Amanda and I went to the Nelson Lakes National Park for a 3-day hike, arriving at the tiny Speargrass hut on Christmas Eve to spend the last night crammed in with 7 […]
We walked from the train station along the harbour front to the Te Papa (National Museum of New Zealand) and guess who was sitting there?! Nina! By text message I had found out that she arrived in Wellington a few hours before. She took us to Rowena’s Lodge Backpackers, seemingly the only place in/near the […]
A Dutch couple gave us a lift from the East Cape back to Te Araroa. I had a quick look at the “World’s largest Puhutukawa Tree”. Stocked up with fresh bread and drinking water we hit the road again. The highway took us up a sweat-breaking hill. Raindrops started falling and a snappy Maori […]
We missed the last bus at 6.23 pm out of Tauranga… so we followed the road signs in order to get to Hwy 2 towards Whakatane. When we left the city via Cameron st we just could not resist using the Domino’s Pizza docket to obtain a cheaper pizza. I haven’t had a (good) pizza […]
ui, why does time always pass so quickly…?
Starting off in Thames, from my last post:
With our shopping done we sat half satisfied on a bench along Polly St, the aparently “longest straight main shopping street of NZ”. Amanda didn’t find the right bikini nor a cheap enough fitting pair of sunglasses as the last […]