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Change of heart for Queenstown
... me distracted.
As the road levelled out I had the scenery to distract me too, and I swapped iPhone’s with one of the girls for the journey so we could listen to each other’s music. This is a really fun thing to do – even if you don’t know your travellers (so long as you trust the person you hand your phone to) – swapping over music choices gives you something different, and it was good to listen to a fresh playlist for ...
Queenstown-Fiordland-Queenstown
... 1491; מאוד של שעה וחצי הליכה בגשם עד לבקתה הראשו 04;ה. בהיות 93; הגריי 96; ווק הידוע ביותר, ...
From River Valley to Queenstown
... go on the Franz Josef glacier walk. We were seriously lucky in terms of the weather. In Franz, it is known to rain over 280 days of the year, so we were all delighted to wake up to blazing sunshine and blue skies. We were all kitted up with waterproofs, gloves, heavy boots and crampons for the hard, seven hour hike. The first hour was a real struggle for me due to the fact that my tight boots were cutting my heels to pieces. I asked our guide, Mike, if ...
What happens in Queenstown, stays in Queenstown
... his worst or best decisions of the trip! So, we all headed down to the AJ Hackett office and got the bus up to the bungy site where we were all harnessed up, even Conor, as the jump pod is in the middle of a canyon so everyone has to wear a safety harness. It was then, when the three of us who were jumping got re weighed that the tables turned for Mr 'Smugness’ Powell. When he was in Australia, Oli had been mugged and punched in the face, which had left him with ...
Go south, Young Man
... and shopping. The nearby corner shop was very limited but they did have good cans of hearty soup which was very appropriate for lunch on a rainy day. We then went to Pack & Save in Upper Hutt centre to shop properly and later watched a DVD of A Walk in the Clouds.
Thursday took us to Wellington to catch the Interislander ferry Aratere to Picton in the South Island. The winds on the quayside were so strong ...


