After just a week here we’re genuinely going to miss New Zealand. What a beautiful place! Do come here if you get the opportunity, you won’t be disappointed. One last…
We didn’t have high hopes for restaurants when we began this trip but have been pleasantly surprised. We knew that in the small country towns we probably weren’t going to…
We had one full day in Auckland to poke around and see what the hubub is about. Auckland regularly is named one of the world’s most liveable cities and after…
Now on the north island we drove north from Wellington in the morning along the Kapiti Coast. Unfortunately we didn’t have any time to spend in Wellington, but it looked…
We awoke early after our one night at the Franz Josef Oasis (aka Bates Motel with an art gallery) to insistent rain. It had started raining the night before and…
In the Mt. Aspiring National Park is a special place where a glacier fed stream joins the larger creek and together they flow out to the Tasman Sea on the…
After yesterday’s sheeting Antarctic gales we awoke to this incredible view of Dunedin from our room at the Hotel St. Clair. The hotel is sited right on the Pacific and…
After a short ride in the mini-bus we jumped out and took off down a narrow trail in the side of the hill overlooking the beach where the penguins come…