Livingspace The Mill Christchurch

... Milford Sound'. Having just been classified as a short list candidate for the new '7 Natural Wonders of the World'. The road had been closed for the previous week due to incredible avalanches. They believed that over 100,000 tonnes of snow fell onto the road leading to it in just one night!!! Amazing. So once they had dug the road out, we were able to go on the 5 hour journey from Queenstown. When we got to the 'Avalanche Zone' the snow was twice as high ...

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After our walk we decided on some punting along the river in the afternoon (with someone else doing the hard work!) and finished off with what started out as a short jog but after some interesting navigation turned into a long run around Hagley Park.

We left Christchurch early the next morning bound for Kaikora, a coastal town backed by snow-capped mountains and ...

... did make an interesting stop at a hydroelectric plant(aka Dam) where because of the rain of the previous couple of days they had to open the flood gates. We got to watch up close as thousands of cubic litres of water went flying down a release ramp into an anti-erosion barrier, cool! When we arrived in Lake Tekapo we had only one thing to say, "Were cold!". Possibly the coldest place we've been since we left home last ...

... Lindsey Little (USA) Students: Me Alison Neufeld (USA) Heather Bowden (New Zealand) Kari Bergmann (Canada) Kathryn Burton (New Zealand) Kelly Meyer (USA) Carsten Sudbrink (Germany) Phil Kuda (Ireland) I am so excited about this team. We have a lot of solid and fun people, and I love the diversity. I can totally see how God orchestrated this team Another cool thing is that I have continually been placed in other groups with the 2 women on staff. They were the 2 leaders ...

... back to the valley below. After I got off the cable car, I walked around the corner to Kiwi Bird World. This is a little zoo with native New Zealand birds and reptiles. They give you a headset and a bulky device that is kind of like a giant I-Pod and then push buttons on it that correspond with the exhibit you are at and a narrator tells you about what you are looking at. It is a cool idea, but the equipment could due with some downsizing. My first visit was ...

... celle que je suis supposé recevoir en cadeau...) Ca me fait penser a la fois ou j'étais aux Iles de la Madeleine en même temps que Max mais on savait pas ou nous étions exactement. Max passe devant une bar de blues sur la rue principale de Cap-aux-Meules et entend de la bonne musique, il se dit que c'est une bonne piste. Fin limier, j'étais assis sur le premier banc de l'entrée ! Ben Dux de Lux c'est pareil. Photos a venir.

... memorable ! Nous sommes ensuite retournes a Queenstown pour y manger quelques Fergburger (meilleur au monde!! jalouse Aglae??? lol) et Nadine y a fait un tour du seigneur des anneaux ! avec costumes, plusieurs sites de tournages et tout plein d'anecdotes croustillants !!!! C'etait une super belle journee ! Je donnerai plus de details aux interesses !!! Puis direction Wanaka pour y faire un saut de parachute a 12 000 pied d'altiture (3,5 km !!) Ce fut un experience extraordinaire ...

... On the other hand, it wasn't so much fun when I was walking around trying to take in the sights of Christchurch - if I wasn't getting rained on, I was getting too hot from the humidity, so after giving it a good go of ooh, at least an hour, I gave it up as a bad job, bought some beer and, er, another bottle of wine, came back to the hotel and proceeded to repeat the wine, facebook, text, dance, cackle extravaganza of the night before. I didn't drink the whole bottle of wine, but I did ...

... ander schuitje dan ik (zij had bijna geen geld meer en moest hier in Christchurch nog een tijdje wachten op haar vliegtuig terug naar Engeland), maar genoeg hetzelfde om samen een kartonnetje wijn te kopen.

De volgende dag heb ik eerst een tijd gelezen en daarna besloot ik eens te gaan winkelen. de zomeruitverkoop is begonnen en tja... Soms is het dan gewoon leuk om wat rond te hoppen.
Het "World Busker Festival" (straatartiesten)kwam eraan en dat maakte dat de ...