Blog posts for New Zealand
Windy Welly
by sam - 21st Apr 2017Our final city of this holiday was Wellington, more famous for being windy than for being the capital of NZ. Its at the bottom of the North Island, we came ...
Wine and Sandflies
by sam - 20th Apr 2017There is a shipwreck on the beach where we are staying in Motueka that is amazing! Its called the Janie Sneddon, built in Scotland in 1901 and was beached in ...
Abel Tasman National Park
by sam - 18th Apr 2017Two days near Nelson in the Abel Tasman National Park were lovely. Most of the National park is not accessible by road so there are water taxis and other ...
West Coast and Kiwi birds
by sam - 17th Apr 2017Adam loves Kiwis, the birds, not the fruit...he hates the fruit, except for his teddy Kiwi Fruit, Kevin, he bought a couple of years ago in the North Island. ...
Glacier viewings
by sam - 16th Apr 2017No decent wifi and technical issues with the blog site providers (that cant be sorted on live chat with the the patchy wifi!) mean we are a bit behind and ...
Haast Pass to the west coast
by sam - 14th Apr 2017**LOTS OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE OUR WEBSITE HOSTING THAT THEY CANT SEEM TO FIX, so we cant use any apostrophes or inverted commas ...
Wanaka
by sam - 13th Apr 2017Dull dreary morning in Wanaka early morning, but it turned better as the day went on, as usual here... 4 seasons in each day!
We had a lazy ...
Queenstown to Wanaka
by sam - 12th Apr 2017Moving on from Queenstown today to Wanaka. It's a smaller lakeside town, known locally as the less adventurous sister. It's only about 75km away over the top ...
Queenstown LUUUGGGE!!
by sam - 10th Apr 2017We got to go on a luge again! We did this is Rotarua in the North Island when we came over 2 1/2 years ago, and all loved it, so we were really excited to ...
Milford Sound
by sam - 9th Apr 2017We're staying in Te Anau, the last town on the only road into Milford Sound, it's not actually that far distance wise between the two, but the road is windy ...
Chocolate and Rocks
by sam - 8th Apr 2017The kids have loved this campsite, all the old bikes trikes and balls around with the sea views and plenty of space to run round, it's not the fanciest of ...
Yellow eyed penguins
by sam - 6th Apr 2017Half an hour back over to Lake Tekapo, we found the Tekapo Hot Springs, glacial water, heated and overlooking the beautiful lake... It was still drizzling so ...
Tramping in the Hooker Valley!
by sam - 5th Apr 2017Beautiful early morning sunrise coffee on the deck of our house, then after driving the length of Lake Pukaki we arrived at Mount Cook Village to tramp (NZ ...
Springfield Donut
by sam - 4th Apr 2017Longest drive of the trip today. It took about 5 1/2 hrs in total plus a couple of stops. The SH1 south of Kaikoura re-opened at 7am, which was going to be a ...
Kaikoura whales and dolphins
by sam - 3rd Apr 2017Early start this morning, but that was no problem, as having gone to bed at 8pm we were all up by 6am. The drive to Kaikoura was going to take 2 hours, but ...
Christchurch - debris and wizards
by sam - 2nd Apr 2017We landed in Christchurch at 9.30am after a beautiful sunrise and views of the snow-capped Southern Alps crowning through the cloud- stunning welcome to the ...
Straight flight to New Zealand
by sam - 2nd Apr 2017As requested we are keeping a journal of our trip again. If you don't want to get automatic notifications sent to you this time then feel free to unsubscribe- ...
Hobbiton
by adam - 4th Jan 2015This is about our trip to the Hobbiton movie set.
We got to Hobbiton and parked up. We had lunch and me and daddy had a bacon and egg bagget. Then ...
Bye bye Betsy, Hello Auckland
by sam - 22nd Dec 2014So yesterday we bade farewell to our Betsy, (the campervan if you haven't read previous blogs!) it was quite emotional... Although, between a bugger up with ...
Tongariro National Park
by sam - 20th Dec 2014Today we took the scenic route from the South of Lake Taupo, where we were staying at Tokaanu, to Waitomo where we are staying now. This was primarily to get ...
Taupo
by sam - 19th Dec 2014Might have guessed we had no useful wifi where we've been staying, and are now currently "freedom" camping in a glorified lay by right on the edge on Great ...
Shells, hobbit holes and cyclones
by sam - 16th Dec 2014The plan for an early start on the Waihi beach to get the best shells after the tide went out, did not quite go to plan, we did go there early...just on ...
Another week, another time zone!
by sam - 15th Dec 2014So today we flew from Brisbane to Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. We are now 13 hours ahead of UK time.
We were quite sad to say bye ...