Queenstown Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

From Christchurch we headed further south on South Island to Queenstown. The trip took ten hours on a less than comfy bus. Even with a multitude of photo stops for the gorgeous scenery, the trip couldn't end soon enough for many of us. Queenstown is in the middle of what is referred to as the "southern Alps." The city reminded Janet and me of Va...

Monday - Canyon Swing DDay! Agghhhhhhh! Well a lie in was difficult. From 6am I'm awake contemplating if I'm going to be able to jump - or wobble off the platform.... Trying to distract myself i cook some breakfast (hope it will stay down!). When the post office opens i go for a walk over there to see if my Debit card has finally arrived along ...

And so to Franz Josef. Twas an eventful journey, we stopped enroute to visit some sort of deer museum. Learnt all about how the deer farms were created after the Scots flooded NZ with deer which were ruining their land. Something we were really keen to learn about. However, there was a wild boar at the deer place and a guy off our bus was pretty...

Destination 221: km117'918 Von Wanaka fahre ich unwissend davon, dass nur wenige age spaeter an Ostern die groesste Flugshow stattfinden wird nach Queenstown. Grund: Das Getriebe verliert Oel welches in den Kardankanal lief und dort den Kardan (moeglicherweise) beschaedigt hat. Ich hoffe somit auch aus anderen Gruenden, die Reise in Christchurch...

A large part of the South Island is a hikers or trampers paradise as the Kiwi's call it with many world famous walking trails through some of the best scenery in the world. We had originally decided to walk the Milford track which is a 5 day walk we saw featured on the Travel Channel. When the time eventually came to pay for the walk the US doll...

So not content with tuesday's skydive I decided to something a little different today. I threw myself off a cliff with a 357 ft drop and a raging river at the bottom, attached to sweet life by just a few lengths of wire... ...and then I did it again in a cheap, white plastic, garden chair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZPTtMz tV8 (Jump #1) ht...

Well it was back to work for my final week and i really did want to do a quiet week but that was not to be.. seemed to be something on or someone to see every evening but least it kept me busy. I met up with Laura who had traveled with a few of us in Laos and Vietnam nearly a year ago so it was good fun catching up and trading a few stories. I m...

The last two weeks in NZ have been super. We pulled up to Franz Josef town to a beautiful blue sky and a crisp clear day. Having trekked on Glaciers before in Patagonia, this time we decided to experience the Glaciers from a different angle.... the air, so we treated ourselves to a helicopter ride over the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier with a snow...

We went on the ferry crossing from the north to the south island and drove down the west coast. The drives are really beautiful and it is nice being able to stop whenever you want along the way to go and see things. I have been doing some of the driving but it is really easy so there are not many other cars and no traffic lights or junctions. We...

Here is where I might one day write about my fling with my Irish boyfriend......ahhhh....anyway, for now it's mostly just a map pin. Okay, how many months later, and I'm finally ready to write about my time in Queenstown??? Let's see....when I arrived in QT I was soooo excited to see Matt (boy that went on the East As trip with me. See the trip ...