Tweet Aaah Golden Bay. If you read the Week 1 post, you’d know we were escaping the rain around Malborough Sounds. We decided to head West to escape it. But we didn’t. We’ve hardly been online thus the lack of updates, and in some ways that’s been great. Spending around 10 days in the Golden [read more…]
Tweet This post like probably many to come on the subject is a bit later than planned as I’ve been offline when on the road. Our crossing on the ferry was a joy as the wild weather of previous days had calmed down. We had decided to take it easy the first few days to [read more…]
Tweet After taking some time out from this site to write the New Zealand Backpacking Unwrapped guide book I’m happy to say that as of next week I’ll be hitting the road again on a South Island road trip. On 14th December I’ll be heading on the Bluebridge ferry to the South Island for up [read more…]
Tweet Today marks the day that the Rugby World Cup Tickets go on sale on general release. Phase 1 and 2 of the ticket sales are now closed, and this is your big chance (and probably last chance) to purchase remaining tickets for the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand. The games are spread [read more…]
Tweet I’m proud to announce the arrival of my new New Zealand Backpacing Guidebook : New Zealand Backpacking Unwrapped. As of December 2012 this book is available exclusively on Amazon – fully updated for 2013!!! The guide is over 125 pages of quality information which I’m sure will help you during your next visit to [read more…]
Tweet Five out of 14 passengers have been taken to hospital with minor injuries after the Shotover Jet crashed yesterday at 3.10pm (22nd November 2010). It is believed an American tourist suffered whiplash whilst the others were locals. Operations have been suspended until the accident has been investigated. Here are a couple of videos from [read more…]
Tweet Lonely Planet has named Wellington 4th in the top ten cities of the world to visit in 2011. According to Lonely Planet : With its quaint wooden houses tumbling down a ring of hills to the city centre, clustered on reclaimed land around the glittering harbour, in ‘100% Pure New Zealand’, the country’s most [read more…]