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Queenstown Slideshow
Queenstown
Travel Blogs from Queenstown, New Zealand
Up a Mountain, Down a Beer!
This is a top pick! I don't know where the last week or so has gone, I really don't. As well as being the extreme sports capital, Queenstown is also the big, bellowing, buzzing nightlife spot too. It also possesses a mysterious curse that switches everyone into party mood ...
Hikes, bikes, rivers - and tequila
This is a top pick! ... as when I had last seen here - right down to the large glass of wine in her hand. Over a couple of glasses of New Zealand's finest boxed wine she told me of the lousy weather she had experienced over the previous couple of weeks, including cyclones and ...
West coast South Island and Routeburn Trek
This is a top pick! Blog to follow. Photos for now. Love ...
Leaving Queenstown
This is a top pick! After spending 2 weeks in Queenstown it was quite sad to be leaving. The view from Butterfli Lodge was fantastic, I'll miss having breakfast on the balcony in the sunshine everyday while looking out over the mountains and lake. On Monday night, over ...
The Rimmer
This is a top pick! It's 1am. I'm on shift, but at home at the dining table taking a mid-shift coffee break. My concentration breaks with the slight creaking of stairs. Instinctively, I know that it's either Jez or the Rimmer coming up mid-sleep to get a swig of Coke. I ...
'Travelpodians' - Part I
This is a top pick! ... - two fellow 'Travelpodians' who originally contacted me by email months ago while planning their trip to New Zealand. As they were only staying in Queenstown for a night, the only way we could meet was for breakfast after I'd finished work, just ...
After Hours
This is a top pick! ... I've met very few like that. Most people are either whizzing round on a one-year 'round-the-world ticket', passing swiftly through New Zealand (and are gutted because they only allowed a couple of weeks or so in New Zealand, saving the majority of their ...
Got enough Adrenaline?
This is a top pick! ... you could probably do any action-packed activity that was ever invented, and probably many of them were actually invented in Queenstown, like bungy jumping. As we crossed a river to Queenstown, we passed a group of people white-water sledging ...
Professional Opinions
This is a top pick! ... back home. This whole 'work permit, get-a-job-extend-your-stay' thing has shunted his mind in to overdrive. He's been running around Queenstown knocking on doors looking for a job in the slightest hope of a break. As for me, I've been spending a bit ...
Sweet and Sour Turkey
This is a top pick! It's Christmas! Not really bounding out of bed as we would at home we knew it would feel like this though as we spent most of the morning much like how we would be at home, in front of the TV, with a Muppet's Christmas Carol trying it's ...
Adrenaline Town
This is a top pick! ... out of the bridge jump, but would later undertake something far more extreme, as the addictive adrenaline rush of activities in Queenstown took hold. It started off with downhill cycling, but found that wasn't enough.. Fly By Wire was next.. sort ...
Pancakes and Glaciers
This is a top pick! Well hi there all of you!! Well things just got interesting in New Zealand having crossed to the South Island which (and sorry to the North Islanders getting this!!) is just the most beautiful place on earth. We have taken loads of photos but none at the ...
Routeburn Track
This is a top pick! ... liked all the great photo opportunities and took almost 400 photographs to Inge-Marie's delight. Before our arrival back in Queenstown we stopped off for a celebratory beer and group photo. Later that evening we all joined at one of the hotels in ...
Wellington to Queenstown - Day 260
This is a top pick! ... wait for us until we made our transfer from Christchurch. Lucky really, because there were no remaining flights to Queenstown today. Great snow capped mountain views as we approached Queenstown. A beautiful landscape of glacial valleys, lakes and snow ...
KIWIS, CRAMPONS AND CREVASSES
This is a top pick! ... news - we need a bed for the night. We hear that Tim has just got a part in an ad for the Bank of New Zealand - makes a changes from all the 007 movies I suppose. 23rd December - Sadly it is raining so our planned rock climbing expedition is ...
Remember Mr Blunt
This is a top pick! Dean left for Welly the other day. Even though it was the last of my shifts, I managed to squeeze an hour or so out to catch some time as he was leaving early the next morning. We sat down by the lake till midnight and then I dropped him back at the ...
Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... with streets and buildings. But the boom didn't last and by 1900 a population of several thousand dropped to 190. Today, Queenstown is a buzzing, year round hive of action and excitement, with skiing in the winter and adventure sports and hiking in ...
New Zealand - Christchurch to Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... when we reached the summit we could see even more clearly how crazy an angle the houses needed to be built to remain upright. New Zealand's only castle, Larnach Castle, is situated on a hill at the top of the Otago Peninsula, just outside Dunedin. The ...
Lord of The Rings
This is a top pick! ... too, something to awaken your senses - definitely. And all in all we had a good couple of days in Queenstown, of course hitting the bars with our new rafting buddies, then it was goodbye to most of the friends we'd made on the Stray bus, and up to ...
Bungy - did I or didn't I????
This is a top pick! ... I found myself climbing on my hands and knees at some points which was very scary. It never ceases to amaze me in New Zealand that you think you've seen the most spectacular scenery possible and then you see more spectacular scenery. Got back into town ...
'Travelpodians' - Part II
This is a top pick! ... of info and support in reference to the up and coming 'Aus Experience'. In return, I helped her get excited about coming to New Zealand. Secretly, I was hoping that I'd finally found someone who can put this place in to words. In didn't happen. She ...
Bungy N Chicken - Xmas in Queenstown
This is a top pick! ... to be Xmas Eve at home! Our own Xmas Eve started off with a blast when we took the bus out to Kawarau Bridge just outside of Queenstown, This is the home to the worlds first bungy site - Yes, I took to the stage and yep I started balling, then I jumped! ...
'Banff' Downunder
This is a top pick! We next made our way west to New Zealand's Banff, Queenstown (population 7,500). Queenstown is a beautiful place, nestled in the New Zealand Alps along the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Since it's fall here, the leaves are turning colour. The lake is ...
Luge Dude
This is a top pick! ... sleeping in, probably all saving energy to be crowned Luge Champion 2006 with us all heading up the gondola to the mountain overlooking Queenstown to then race down it again, 3 times. The luge carts were exactly that carts seeming about as stable as a ...
I'm to sexy for TV... YEAH...!
This is a top pick! ... him, and why I said what I did, but I did. I strolled up and introduced myself as a BBC researcher from England looking for people for a new English TV show. The title of the show was "Too Sexy for TV" [Don't ask] I said to him that I was on the look ...
1001 Ways to Hurt Yourself
This is a top pick! ... day and then it time for drinking. Cheap wine was consumed and we ended up drunken in the world bar ( the only nightclub in Queenstown). The following day was a time to relax, we played touch rugby and footy with some other Brits and got on the grog again ...
We Three Queens (?!)
This is a top pick! On the way to Queenstown, Philipp decided to hitch to Wanaka from Cromwell, a town about 50 km from Queenstown, because there was a snowboarding festival going on. I liked Philipp all right, but I can't say I was sorry to see him go. On top of there ...
Hmmm...
This is a top pick! ...The work thing. I made it to Queenstown around noon the following morning. After completing a bit of paperwork, signing a couple of serious looking documents and going to court briefly to sign and get signed a formal, legal declaration, I was ...