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 …
Well, another Christmas and New Years have come and passed, we haven’t really done too much during the holidays but if you really must know, this is what we’ve been up to so far in Auckland. A few days before Christmas Eve Suz and I went walking, together with lots …
We’ve now been here in Auckland, New Zealand for a month and we’re both doing good. We’ve found jobs and have just (this past weekend) moved to a much nicer apartment than the one we first stayed at. It didn’t all start out that easily though….and we encountered our first …
Since Queensland doesn’t use daylight savings time, people from New South Wales (and Victoria as well) say that when you cross the border you have to turn your clock back 1 hour + 10 years. People there are supposedly crazy. This has been one of the reasons that I’ve wanted …
To celebrate out one year anniversary we decided to have a weekend away, and what better place than the Hunter Valley! I had never been there before (well, I had actually never been north of Sydney before to be honest) and Suz had only been there once so it seemed …