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Wonderful World of Wine!
The queue for the ferry across to the South brought our first real experience of the dreaded 'Brits Abroad', which we were hoping to avoid here in NZ. A large group of lads in their early twenties rolled around the ferry, drinking their way through their hangovers, being generally loud and ignorant and smelling like a brewery. Whether it was just …
Touring the North of the South
As I try and think back to describe today, I find myself running short of superlatives. If the South Island is to continue in the current vein there surely won't be enough left to keep me going for the next 3 weeks. Aware that others read this as well as us, I'll try and hold back on the repetitive gushing and let the photographs do the talking …
Our last day of luxury
Our last morning in the B&B saw more home-made muffins and bread for breakfast with lashings of home-made jam. Being woken up by BeeJay the Birman kitty purring on our bed we got ready for our day pottering round the vineyards making some purchases for our time in the camper van. Much to our surprise (and excitement) our hostess offered us the …
From holidays to work
Hello from Blenheim, South Island,
the town where I got my first job. :)
After I had known that I have to leave Paihia for a job I allowed myself to go on a dolphin Cruise there with the option to swim with them.
The trip started at 8 am in the morning on Sunday. I was so excited about the 4 hours on the boat and the cruise through the Bay of Islands.
We were just four guests on board with two skippers, very nice. Luckily the weather was during morning sunny ...
A sophisticated sort of travelling
... hour there (we made quite good friends I think) we headed off for our organised tour of another vineyard called the Seresin Estate. Ironically, the wine maker of this estate comes from South London - quite how they let him produce New Zealand wine I don't know! His assistant gave us a tour of the vineyard and talked us through the steps behind production, including the making of their organic fertiliser! It was interesting to see how it all happens, and be able to ...
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