When Suz and I arrived in Auckland the original plan was to stay 1 maybe 2 months and then return to Sydney. But, we all know that it didn’t quite turn out that way though, did it? =) 8 months later and the time came for us to leave the …
The time had come for us to leave Queenstown and make our way north to visit some glaciers! Since this was to be the longest drive of our whole trip, we decided to start really early, that way we would have plenty of time to make a few stops and …
Another early morning for us and we were ready to leave Dunedin. It’s getting cold to get up in the mornings now, you can tell that winter is on its way (we even slept with the heater on the night before, that’s a first for this autumn/winter). After getting lost …
When we last left off we had just spent a few days in Wellington, and time had now come for us to make it over to the South Island!! After another early rise and some breakfast, we made it down to the harbour where we got on the Interislander Ferry. …
The day had finally arrived, our trip down south! But first there were a few small things that we had to take care of, first of all the apartment, we realised that it would be better for us to leave the apartment and just get a new one once we …
Our first intentions for this weekend was to make it all the way to the northern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, to Cape Reinga, we were going to see the 90 mile beach and all that comes with it. After a bit of reading we realized that …
Tongariro Crossing is supposed to be one of New Zealands best one day hikes. We hadn’t done any hiking together, before we arrived in NZ, but we decided that a day hike would be a good way to start. We had planned to do this hike (or tramp as they …
About two hours away from Auckland you’ll find the Coromandel Peninsula, we had been planning on going there for a while but hadn’t gotten around to it since we usually go away for a whole weekend. Well, this time we finally made it! Our original plan was to rent a …
‘So tell me again why you chose to drive down this road?’, says Mike from the back of the car. We are driving along the “Forgotten World Highway”, a road that not many people know about, not even the locals. It’s a road that runs for 150km between the towns …
Yup, that’s the first question you might ask yourselves when you arrive in Rotorua, also known to some as “Fartopolis” and “Rottenrua” It has been given these lovely nicknames due to its rich scent of rotting egg-like odour which is sulphide gas, produced by the thermal activity….they also say that …