Bealey's Hotel Christchurch

... I was intigued by the one of the things that New Zealand is famous for... the amount of sheep! They were in every location - by the hills , by the beech, by the rivers, by the snowy mountains. But i think the sheep have the life here.<br>We stopped on Kaikoura for some lunch and a cuppa. The again along the way for a $1 ice cream<br><br>After arriving in Christchurch ...

... Cadburys back in the campervan. What more could you want? <br><br>The next day we went for a walk around town and saw some nice old buildings, which you don&#8217;t see too much of in New Zealand. Dunedin also has one of the biggest universities in New Zealand and we noticed loads of students around, some buying kebabs for dinner whilst wearing flip flops despite it being freezing cold, some in fancy dress ready for a night on the town, some sat on ...

... morning, and Nick and Marcus bumped inot a friend of theirs called Laura, another addition to our group. We got to Abel Tasman that night after a gorgeous drive round all the coastal roads at the top end of the south island. So many photos were taken that day. I can't remmeber the names of all the places we stopped though. The place we were staying in Abel Tasman was intersteing to say the least. basically we were in rooms like stand alone ...

... lovely morning<br>in the outdoor hot mineral spa pools. A stranger mix of feelings<br>there never has been - the icy cold rain on the top of your head<br>and the hot pool for the rest of your body. It certainly made for a<br>very quick walk back to the changing rooms!Kaikoura was the next stop and in the<br>grip of heavy storms we were yet again battening down the hatches<br>with some DVDs. To put the weather into context a bit, this ...

... amp; kumara chips - yummo. The weather was holding up and the sun was warm &amp; comforting (a bit like a midgie trap). This area would also make a terrific campervan overnighter. I do suggest you make the effort to stop &amp; check it out. Refreshed, we headed on south and the weather quickly turned bum-up. We turned left well before Franz Josef at a signpost proclaiming scenic  helicopter flights. We went down a dirt road for a few kms and ended up at a riverbank hut with carpark ...

... are very pretty here, and a very nice spot to sunbathe on a Saturday morning!! And obviously we had to do the tourist thing and go on the old tram around the city centre and went for a punt ride on the river!! So my time in New Zealand is up unfortunately, Ive absolutely loved it here and will definately come back. I think it was always going to be good, but having such a great group made it heaps better!! Ive been to lots of places all over New Zealand and ...

... nepobyvalo, ale byl celej propocenej a rozhodne potrebuje vyprat, tak to mozna pejskovi zavanelo plesnivym syrem. :-) V Christchurchi bylo docela chladno, v Australii nam ke konci uz bylo vedro, tak jsme na tu kosu nejak nebyli pripraveni, prozatim alespon neprselo. Protoze jsme se dost zdrzeli na letisti, do hostelu jsme dorazili az nekdy kolem pate odpoledne. Vyrazili jsme do hospody na veceri a hned otestovali NZ vino a pivo a hned jsme se zapsali do ...

... island and airlie beach that had just been reunited with her boyfriend and was in extacy!!! we had anioce dinner and then went looking for a streetshow that we could only see the end of but saw some beautiful botanical garden with huge trees and flowers. its a tranquil town and looking towards the end of a long street showed an amazing view of hills and trees and skies that i am not used to see in towns at all.

... 260 sq km/100 sq miles); Tokelau, three atolls about 960km (600 miles) northwest of Niue (area 12 sq km/4 sq miles); and the Ross Dependency, which consists of over 700,000 sq km (270,270 sq miles) of the Antarctic. Language English is the common and everyday language, but other languages are also spoken, including Maori, which is New Zealand's second official language (spoken by the indigenous Maori people who constitute approximately 15% of the ...

... disaster. <br><br>Small portions of **** food would be one thing, but there was absolutely no way I was prepared to pay over NZ$ 200 between us for **** food and Fawlty Towers service! <br><br>So for the first time in my life, I suggested that we leave before we'd even ordered.<br><br>Everyone agreed, so we apologised to the waiters (one even said "I can't blame you!"), and jumped back into the car, praying that we could find another restaurant ...