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Windy Welly, WIne, & WTF, Weather???

After our Friday evening burlesque show in the Sydney city center, we stopped for a glass of Australian wine at a sidewalk café near our hostel and watched Sydney's (scary) nightlife go by. I must say that I did not expect a mixture of "gentlemen’s clubs," kebab shops, and twenty-somethings dressed like a car crash between Snookie and Real …

Leaving Winter

Kia Ora,

mein erster Urlaub dieses Jahr, vier Tage in Samoa. Dienstag habe ich noch gearbeitet, am fruehen Nachmittag hatten wir einen netten Hagelsturm. Es ist genug Eis runtergekommen um die Stadt weiss einzukleiden.

Flieger ging dann um 17:00 von Wellington nach Auckland (eigentlich hatte ich einen Flieger um 17:30, aber als …

Crossing over

As we rolled into the Windy City I got my first glimpse of sunshine since leaving Auckland. The previous three days passing through Rotorua, Lake Taupo and National Park had, if I am being completely honest without a word of a lie, left me pretty cold on New Zealand. The weather was terrible with rain and low cloud obscuring the magnificent views …

South of the North

So we begin our final full day in the North Island of New Zealand on tour making our way from Tongariro to the capital of New Zealand, Wellington.

An early start as it always seems to be at the moment, not that we're complaining, and we stopped off in various places such as Wanganui and Waikane for a break and lunch respectively. After …

Rainy Wellington

Arrived to rain and found out that it was going to keep raining here in Wellington and pretty much everywhere else in the North Island for the next four days. What to do on a rainy day in New Zealand's capital city; museums and pubs. Te Papa is Wellington's famous museum and as it is so big it wasn't a problem to spend a coupe of hours here. We …

Barhopping

Zum Abschied scheint nochmal die Sonne im National Park. Bei unserer Ankunft in Wellington ist das Wetter auch richtig gut. Später macht die Stadt ihren Spitznamen Windy Wellington alle Ehre. Wir fahren mit dem Bus eine kleine Stadtrundfahrt. Wellington soll nur 2 km lang sein?! Hier sind die Straßen wie in San Francisco. Wir sehen uns den …

Festivities and Festivals

HOHOHO Merry Christmas! And 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope you had a great festive holiday and followed our example of eating and drinking to excess.

Christmas Day
Arriving in Taupo we had our first little bout of home sickness. How on earth were we going to recreate a traditional Christmas eve with no Salthouse, no Harp, no …

Windy WElly

So we left the southisland yesterday and arrived in the middle of the night in WEllington ... searching for the hostel and tired ...

Right after breakfast we were heading to the centre to explore some city-sights...

Te PAPA Museum - its huge and really interesting stuff to see here ...

WELLINGTON - THE CAPITAL OF NEW …

One day late

This is in fact being written from Christchurch as I refused to pay £17 a day at the Holiday Inn for broadband.

WE have had howling gales and rain in Wellington, so its been a bit tricky. We are now with our good friends in Christchurch and the sun is shining and its BBQ tonight.

This is to wish all my readers a very happy xmas …

The attempt to update you on my life

The days slip away from me. Most times I do not know what day or day of the week it is. I don’t feel like I will ever have time to write you guys everything that has happened because every day there are so many new things to say and by the end of the day, which is the only time I have to write I am so tired I just want to sleep. So I will …