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Rainbow Hotel Auckland

Corner of Nelson & Wellesley Street, Auckland City Center Auckland, North Island, 0004, New Zealand

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New Year with a bang!

A travel blog entry by georgeandbecky

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Hey everyone,

It's been a long time yet again between blogs so we are now in New Zealand having left Australia last week. We left you as we were approaching Brisbane, the first city-like city we have been to in Oz. After a walk around the city centre we decided to participate in a tour of the Castlemaine XXXX brewery. We weren’t expecting much but it was a great tour ending with a tasting. Again not expecting much we were surprised to be offered four full size (by full size ...

End of Year Awards Ceremony

A travel blog entry by lynnandkriss

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KK: New Orleans; partly because the idiots at Amtrak cost us a day so we didn’t get long enough there. Also an interesting guy, a writer from the UK, got in touch after we had left. There was so much more to see, eat and experience there. The Big Easy was a hurried confusing scramble which I don’t think is the point of N’orlins (as Tara from True Blood says it).

LK: Buenos Aires; a European grandeur and the beguiling charm ...

Gatecrashers

A travel blog entry by jlaire

This is a top pick!
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... fond of Manny (they have a long time together there a back and Jo chats away to him fluidly) and is happy to let him lead the way. At one point both Belinda and Claire canter/gallop pasts Jo and Manny until they disappear around the corner of a hill. Instead of taking this as a cue to speed up, Manny simply tilts his head to the side to see if he can see where they've got to before trundling slowly on unfazed at the thought of being completely left behind.
Its ...

Golf & Gardening

A travel blog entry by karin52746

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Aotearoa - Land der langen, weissen Wolke
Dies ist der Maori-Name für Neuseeland. Wie wahrscheinlich alle Touristen hier, kämpfe ich noch etwas mit der Aussprache der vielen, ähnlich klingenden Maori-Namen. Das Land macht dem Namen aber seit meiner Ankunft doch alle Ehre und ich habe wohl so ziemlich alle Schattierungen von Weiss und Grau am Himmel gesehen. Als permanenter Gfröhrli werde ich von den Einheimischen hier immer ...

Rockin' Reelin' Auckland New Zealand

A travel blog entry by lynnandkriss

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... that was taking place right in front of us, on a sunny Friday afternoon. To the untrained eye, it may have looked like some “Swallows & Amazons” types pratting about in boats that are in urgent need of an outboard motor. But thanks to Ken we now know what a spinnaker is and understand the importance of “stealing someone else’s wind” - a proposition we had only previously considered quite ghastly.

LK: But the fun part of the weekend was ...