Category: travel

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 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...

Day 5: Flying high Fox Glacier, New Zealand Fox Glacier, New Zealand We’d picked up a brochure for the glacier helicopter flights from the motel reception when we checked in last night. The motel has a deal with one of the companies, so their prices were a little cheaper...

Day 4: More ways to get yourself killed in NZ Fox Glacier, New Zealand Fox Glacier, New Zealand For most of our trip we’ve tried to make sure that following the longer driving days we have two nights at the next destination. This wasn’t the case this time, because...

Day 3: Crossing the mountains Greymouth, New Zealand Greymouth, New Zealand Today was the first of our long drives, from Christchurch right across to the other side of the island to Greymouth. We had breakfast and then set off across the Canterbury plains on the Great Alpine Highway (Highway...

Day 2: Christchurch Christchurch, New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand Day 2 began where Day 1 left off – on a plane! We got into Christchurch just after midnight. From there it was a fairly simple matter of getting through Customs, explaining what all the “yes” boxes were that we’d...

On our way! Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Australia Last night was spent testing all my devices to make sure they all talk to each other. Of course an iPhone 6 doesn’t want to have anything to do with my 2009 MacBook Pro running an operating system that is three versions...

The day before we leave New Norfolk, Australia New Norfolk, Australia This time tomorrow we will be getting off a plane in Melbourne and transferring to our flight to Christchurch. We only have a short layover in Melbourne to clear through security and customs (aka Border Force), who are...

Less than a week to go (not that I’m counting) New Norfolk, Australia New Norfolk, Australia It’s a weird feeling, knowing that at this time last year I was somewhere over the South China Sea on the way to London (via the long walk to nowhere at Dubai airport)....

Wednesday 12 August was a work day that wasn’t 100% normal. The forecast for Hobart was 4-15, with a chance of a late shower. 1 of 12 – It was cold when I got up. It’s the time of year when afternoon me hates morning me for rugging up...