Month: October 2015

12 of 12 October 2015 (the Zoe edition)

If you got lost a while back, we’ve just returned from a two-week holiday in New Zealand. You can check out our adventures over at my TravelPod blog http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/sleepydwarf/2/tpod.html Zoe and five of the other teddies came with us, and they had a great time too. Yesterday Kramstable (aka...

Day 14: What goes around comes around

Day 14: What goes around comes around Christchurch, New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand Motel restaurant coffee is rarely good, and today’s was no exception. We decided to stop along the way for a further caffeine fix. After a couple of false starts, we stopped in Rolleston, which is, I...

Day 13: Another travelling song

Day 13: Another travelling song Ashburton, New Zealand Ashburton, New Zealand I can now add “cafe that offers its customers sunglasses to block out the early morning sun” to the list of places I’ve been in New Zealand. This was the Kitchen Table, just up from our motel in...

Day 12: Dunedin days

Day 12: Dunedin days Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin. I love it. I’m currently sitting here drinking my very last Wanaka Beerworks Cardrona working out how I can stay here and not go home. OK I know that’s not going to happen. We had a great day....

Day 11: On the road again

Day 11: On the road again Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin, New Zealand We left a very cold Te Anau in the morning to arrive in a very warn Dunedin mid-afternoon. We took the 94 hghway back to Mossburn, where the turn off to Queenstown is, and continued through Lumsden...

Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather

Day 10: No time no place to talk about the weather Te Anau, New Zealand Te Anau, New Zealand Everything was go for our trip to Milford Sound this morning. We’d been checking the weather for this day ever since we’d arrived and it was going to be the...

Day 9: Driving rain

Day 9: Driving rain Te Anau, New Zealand Te Anau, New Zealand We left Queenstown this morning heading to Te Anau, where tomorrow (weather and roads permitting) we will be taking a day trip to Milford Sound. It was a great day for driving, with strong winds battering much...

Day 8: Freaking out in Queenstown

Day 8: Freaking out in Queenstown Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown is beautiful, but mega-touristy. It reminded me of Strahan but times 100. We got petrol. It cost $112 to fill a 70 litre tank. I’ve never paid more than $100 for a tank of petrol before....

Day 7: Queenstown

Day 7: Queenstown Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand Wanaka, like Greymouth, was a stopover on the way somewhere else, but somewhere I could quite happily have spent more time. Today we had to get to Queenstown, which was only about an hour away, for another two-night stay. Our...

Day 6: Rain, rain go away

Day 6: Rain, rain go away Wanaka, New Zealand Wanaka, New Zealand Today was a long long day. The rain that had started late yesterday afternoon was showing no signs of letting up, and we were glad we’d been able to do the helicopter ride yesterday instead of waiting...