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Along the west coast
We left early from Hanmer Springs for our longest day of driving - an expected 7 hours - but with Jimmy's expert handling of the car and roads, we made it to the coast in about 5. The scenery moved steadily from valley with a sunrise to mountain overpasses, not as high as we had thought they would be, to rain showers, to mid-day sun at Greymouth. …
Heavy Rain
After a somewhat uneasy night we started out from Lake Hawea driving to our current destination, the Holly Homestead B&B in Franz Josef. The route here was interessting to say the least. Its a five hour drive from Lake Hawea to Franz Jozef and that is not in a straight line. At times I felt like I was driving through a tropical rain forrest …
La région des grands glaciers
... journée se finit dans un camping, au bord du lac Mapourika, en compagnie d’un couple de hollandais et surtout de sandfly par centaines. Les Sandfly, la légende veut que les dieux pour contre balancer le cadeau fait aux hommes (la beauté de la nouvelle zélande) se sentir obligé de laissé une plaie sur se territoire si parfait. Et cette plaie n'est autre que la sandfly, une petite mouche super vorace. Mais bon on a survécu !!!
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Alex's bday
... table! A Chernobyl sized muffin with lit candles and everything! We had a great laugh and the locals found the British very entertaining (or weird which ever way you look at it).
The convoy set off to Franz Josef where we found our next camper van site for the evening. Once we had all eaten Ben,Clara and Evie came over to our place and we had a bottle of birthday wine.(They had bought specially for me) We ...
Greymouth, Franz Josef und Fox Glacier
... dass man leise los kann und morgen um 6.30 geht es zum Foxgletscher.
Mittwoch,7.11.
Nach wieder nur kurzer Fahrt, Einschecken im netten Hostel - nur mit einer netten Finnin auf dem Zimmer,- …und los zur Ganztagesgletschertour. Grummeln im Bauch und Kopfschmerzen. Komplettversorgung mit warmen Socken, Schuhen wer braucht (z.b die netten malaisischen Mädels die immer auf Flipflops unterwegs sind)Spikes, Handschuhen und ...