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Middlemarch
Travel Blogs from Middlemarch, New Zealand
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Otago Rail Trail - 4 days on a bike
This is a top pick! ... doesn't make you the ART DECO CAPITAL of anywhere. Never mind, Ranfurly was nice and also had the oldest continual trading shop in New Zealand. Oh, and it also had a very nice pub - like all these towns along the way. All the towns were ...
Yes sir, yes sir,three bags full...well,one anyway
One fine Sunday Graham (a workmate), also an hilarious dry-witted Scotsman, whose brogue I am just beginning to understand,invited us out with his wife,Nyrie, for a trip into Central Otago. This area is like a plain or moor with tracts of tussocks(a ...
Boxing Day - Gold Mine, Sheep and Getting Home
... and running the Auckland half-marathon this was the best thing I have done in NZ. Here's the description of Hyde to Middlemarch: "Beyond Hyde the narrow confines of the upper Taieri Gorge and the river open up to the wide spaces of the ...
Rail Trail
We had to blow through Dunedin a little quicker than we wanted to because our time in New Zealand is starting to wind down and we still have three ‘must-dos’ on our list: mountain biking through part of the scenery featured in the Lord Of The ...
Otago rail trail and the rest
... had to offer and a lesson on the etiquite of beer drinking. That filled in some of the day for us, then it was off to Middlemarch where our cabin was (supposedly) waiting and preparations were to be made for the rail trail the next day. Upon arriving in ...
Trying to leave for my big trip
Leaving your passport at home is not a good start to a journey abroad. Nor is it a particularly cheap experience but such was my first try at leaving home. Re-booked on a later flight on the same day finally got me away on my great adventure. Direct ...
Leaving winter (and Bales) behind
... , China, likely to be the hottest at 42 or even 49 degrees C. That's hot! But first things first: Getting there. I flew Air New Zealand to Auckland with a whole day waiting. Did many hand-drawn maps to send to friends not on the Net. Then sneaked into the ...
Leaving New York with intent to return
... shop and bought a few gorgeous things: A blue checked shirt and some nice, soft, pure cotton Perfect-Fit tees. Shopping in New York and I buy tees! I actually also bought two short-sleeved Esprit ones. Cotton without the clingy spandex yeah! Then off to ...
The Day Before
... our trip for us. This place is a small cottage in the middle of nowhere, on a dirt road about 10 minutes out of Middlemarch (which is about 10 minutes from the middle of nowhere). The day was getting cold, and what do we see but this beautiful little ...
Finally hitting the road and getting to Singapore.
I was happily drinking coffee in the departure area of Dunedin's airport, waiting for my boarding call, when in stead I heard my name being called over the intercom. My flight was delayed and wouldn't get me to Christchurch in time for my international ...
Cycling the Rail Trail
... started with a flight into Queenstown, birthplace of the bungy jump and (according to Lonely Planet) "the adrenaline-rush capital of New Zealand". I wasn't keen: I'd rather poke myself with a sharp stick than jump off a bridge tied to an elastic band, ...
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