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Caroline Motel Timaru

46-48 Evans Street Timaru, Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

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Rohan

A travel blog entry by barrytravels

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... Rohan in Lord of the Rings was filmed. I asked the woman at the coffee shop how to get to Mt. Sunday (Edoras). She knew exactly where it was and that it would take about 45 minutes each direction just to get there. Without a doubt, Kenton and I both agreed we had to go see it. It started out as a nice paved road, but very soon turned to gravel. As we started our drive it was cloudy, but the clouds soon began to break up. About halfway there, ...

So here we have...

A travel blog entry by janeandrob

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... Dad had done the honourable thing & divided up the 240 acres of pasture the family owned between his 3 children & his sisters had sold off their share. He couldn’t just farm as his father had done, so Ross, wife, new baby (2 months old, but with rugby gear from Irish, Scots & S. African relatives), Mum & Dad were now ‘hobby’ farming just the 80 acres left. What’s a man to do? Ross, himself, had done some shearing, some ...

A tame night by all accounts!

A travel blog entry by karen.treacy

We arrived in Timaru in the evening, and Moloney after driving (while we all drank in the back) was dying for a drink by the time we parked up!! We then met Sean and Nuala, Lauras friends from home, who are joining us on our little adventure in their camper, which we called Little Ro!
We had a few quiet beers and hit the hay, nothing too exciting, we had a feeling Sunday was going to be a big day!!
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Some serious miles on the clock

A travel blog entry by andyandfran

... scenery.

After the mountain range we made it to Sheffield where Fran took over the reigns of Evelyn again and we began to head down the Inland Scenic Route towards Fairlie. Again the route was pretty but not much in the way of stop-offs so we headed straight for Fairlie.

We made good time and arrive in Fairlie at around 4pm-ish. Unfortunately this was 230km to Dunedin for the game which we'd ...

Mackenzie Country Brings The Hills

A travel blog entry by pollyandmikey

This is a top pick!
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... standard Asian lunch stop).

The hills continued and the miles passed slowly, not that we were in a hurry. Entering MacKenzie Country provided more stunning scenery. Mackenzie Country is so named after 'Jock’ Mackenzie who ran his flocks through these hills in the 1840s leading the way for many more to follow. It really was like Scotland or The Lakes, beautiful.

Stopping for a chocolate break I received a huge shock. ...

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