After breakfast and packing up our little hut, which had provided us with a most comfortable, dry and warm night’s sleep, we wandered over to the main reception area of the park we were staying in so that we could use their WiFi to plan the next stage of our trip. As we sat there, …
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A tale of two glaciers
Alex left you after he had just jumped out of a plane. Whaaaaat!!!! Madness. Actually I had been there and done that so really he was just catching up with me but we wont dwell on that… We headed towards the west coast stopping at Greymouth for a food shop and a wander around the …
The curvature of the earth
When Hoff left you, we had just arrived at the campsite in Abel Tasman National Park. Situated right at the top of the South Island, it’s a beautiful forest, almost tropical in nature, which leads right down to the waters edge, where turquoise seas lap against bright white sandy beaches. If you’d gone to sleep …
Crossing the Cook Strait
After a good night’s sleep we had brek and headed off to Wellington, with some pit stops on the way. Alex managed to get his hair cut at last! It was getting nearly as long as mine. We were soon descending into Wellington and we both were craving fish and chips so lunch was the …
Fields of fire
Our alarms went off at 0445 and we rather reluctantly crawled out of our tent and got ready to take on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We packed away our tent as quietly as we could, had a hearty breakfast of porridge and crumpets, then made our way to the car park to meet our shuttle …
Welcome to Bagend
We set off bright and early from our campsite as today was Hobibiton day. My level of excitement was like a 5 year old waking up on Christmas Day! As we got about 5km out the brown tourist signs for the movie set started appearing. I instantly got the phone out to take a picture …
Towards Coromandel – “An (Un)Expected Journey”
We were sad to be leaving our hosts in Keri Keri – as Hoff mentioned, we’d had five days of amazing food, great activities and most importantly, real beds. However, it was time to head south so we loaded Kitty, said our goodbyes, and hit the road once again. We had quite a punchy first …
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The Northlands
We packed up our kit and headed to the hire car which was a 20 minute walk. 2 minutes out I realised we had left our water bottles in the freezer. Nightmare. So Alex picked up the car and I hurried back to the flat and the back to the car hire. We only paid …
Land of the Kiwis
As our readers will surely have worked out by now, we typically write these blogs ‘in arrears’; that is, we’re usually a couple of weeks behind/ahead (depending on how you look at things) and writing about what has happened a couple of weeks ago. During my last writing session, I was being serenaded by the …
The end of our American adventure
We’ve just realised that we’ve now almost been on the road for five months. It’s gone so fast and we’ve seen so much, and we’re looking forward to NZ, but we’ve still got a last fling to have in South America before we swap continents and head for Australasia. On our first night in Santiago, …
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