Chez Fleurs Bed and Breakfast Akaroa

בארתו 12; פאס ניתן לעשות הרבה מאוד טרקים אבל אנו כבר שבענו מהט...

We left our tree house in Punakaiki under heavy rain and headed for the Arthur's Pass, which was supposed to be a very nice crossing of New Zealands Southern Alps. The ride was ok, but we did not see a lot due to the crapy weather. We saw washed away roads and many flooded areas . After crossing the pass, we drove to Akaroa, which is just south ...

Sorry you haven't heard from me for a while. It's just (unsurprisingly) I've been working my **** off and Phil's barely been working so had lots of time to do the blog. No just kidding, before Phil shouts protests and gets in a huff. Phil has this hard core rota, where they do 5 days (6 actually) of 12hr shifts, then have somewhere around a wee...

Monday 16th November

After flying on the toy plane for Stewart Island, we then fly on a slightly bigger plane from Invercargill to Christchurch, and pick our hire car up and drive the 90minutes that it take to get to pretty Akaroa. The sun is shining, its a miracle! We check in to our lovely motel and head for a walk along the coastline...

That's it folks my time in New Zealand is over and I am now Sydney so here is the final chapter in the Kiwi story

I managed to tear myself away from Aoraki Mount Cook and then had a brief stop at Lake Tekapo. There is a very attractive stone church by the lakeside and instead of a stained glass window it has a clear window which frames ...

We said goodbye to Bali and hopped on the plane to Sydney, where we sat in the airport for two hours before getting back on a plane to Christchurch, New Zeland.

Christchurch

After leaving the busy town of Kuta in Bali, we were in for a bit of a shock when we arrived in Christchurch. Firstly, it was absolutly freezing! and ...

Well - it's been a while, and there's a bit of theme of the good old weather disrupting things running through this update. Not to say of course that we haven't been very much still enjoying ourselves, just not in the ways we originally planned!
First up, we thought we were finally in for a real
treat as we left 4 solid days of rain in Q...

Having booked accommodation that morning on-line, we stepped out of the airport into the chilly evening in search of some sort of transportation. It came in the form of a minibus, that dropped us and several other passengers to different destinations around the city. Our hostel, another wonderful YHA, was situated in the city centre, a 5min walk...

G'Day again! So I dusted off the old brain, added up the number of kilometers we've done and converted it to miles. And yes we have done about 235 miles of tramping on the South Island. I say "about" because I didn't count side trips (like the one out to the Dart Glacier), so it's probably more than that! Whew, no wonder my legs are sore! And I'...

Mellowness is reaching new levels with less than two weeks to go until we are back on an aeroplane - sigh. We've been lucky with a long run of good weather, in fact it's been hot! We didn't go to Doubtful Sound as we couldn't quite trust that conditions would be the same on that side of the mountain; have to leave something for next time. Compen...