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Travel Blogs from Paraparaumu
Just a quickie....
Kia Ora, just a short entry today to say that we have safely arrived on the North island again and after a short drive stopped at a place called Para...... Exactly. We didn't really do much this morning while waiting for the ferry crossing, which left Picton at 13.15 and we didn't really do much on the ferry apart from watch a film. The weather …
Lost Condiments - Andy
Charlie and Annabel had very kindly paid for our ferry crossing over to Wellington as a thank you for chauffeuring them up to Golden Bay (and I imagine also as a pre-emptive apology for secretly filming our name-game in the car and posting it to Facebook). About 40 minutes into our journey to the ferry port a horrible thought occurred; "Matt we've …
All you can eat Pizza
We were sad to leave Palmy, but on the road again was a refreshing new start. It rained most of the day with occasional heavy downpours, sometimes I was worried that our car would be flooded. The drive was pleasant otherwise, highway 57 merged with New Zealand Highway 1 at the farming community of Levin, and soon we were close to the Tasman Sea …
Paraparaumu
From Welly we headed back north, via Porirua and Titahi Bay, to the small seaside town of Paraparaumu, on the Kapiti Coast.
There's nothing particularly special about Paraparaumu, but it's very pretty with views across to Kapiti island and the south island …
Day 197: Tongariro to Paraparaumu
It's Good Friday and with the Wellington YHA full and little chance of me finding a cheap bed late in the day, I choose to stay 30 minutes outside the capital, in a quiet beachside town with the unwieldy name of Paraparaumu. The Kiwi Traveller minibus storms down Route 1 stopping off at Taihape, self-proclaimed as NZ's 'Only Gumboot City'. On a …
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