The Honest Lawyer Hotel Nelson

... owner. I again called ahead and was told to pop in. The place was a ramshackle old farm up on a hill where I was greeted by the owner who looked like a farmer who had been taken away from his work &#8211; as soon as he realised I was an enthusiast for wine he cheered up no end and gave me a great tasting and insight into his world.<br><br>2003 Riesling &#8211; Fresh zesty nose following through on the palette. Herby, limes ...

... the past three months. She had quite the stories about being lifted off tracks by helicopters and hiking through blizzards. We also met a girl from Markham who was going to Otago Uni. here... she recognized our accents and the big Canadian flags we sewed to our packs. Small world! We passed the cold evening by playing cards with an American couple and heading to bed at the early hour of 9pm(no ...

... we headed off early to catch the water taxi so that we could get in and explore the Abel Tasmin the drive in the water taxi was brill although I was not too impressed when the driver dumped us off at the beach and we had to negoiciate the icy paddle to the beach! The weather was beautiful and we got some amazing views of the clear water and we enjoyed a laid back walk along the coast as we had all day to make the trip ...

... of a wide bay with a sandbar across the mouth, a sky that was awesome and the lodge a copy of a Victorian house set in beautiful gardens. We'd had a bottle of cold white wine sent on from the last lodge so were able to sit in the gardens on the edge of the beach just happy, happy, happy at what we'd done and where we were. Nigel had got worse and so he and Eva had taken the boat back to where they'd come from and Jenny and Eric had also left after lunch as they ...

... I wake up with a nasty surprise: the upper part of my body is covered with bites!! probably more than 100 of them (well if not then it seemed like it!!!), all over my back, arms, chest and neck... I look like I have caught chicken pox! I am not sure where they come from and someone mentions bed bugs... no idea what they look like but when I check my bed I do see bugs in the corner of the mattress... yuk!!! I have to clean my bag and all my clothes in case they are bed bugs ...

... dass der werte Herr Selbach am Strand eingeschlafen ist und dann halt nur noch 1 Std und 15 Min Zeit hatte um nach Marahau zu kommen. Musste dann "etwas" spurten aber auch das hat hingehauen! Alles in allem war es ein echt genialer Wandertag, gut 23 Kilometer in 7 Std war Ok aber nicht gerade entspannt, aber im Nachhinein bin ich froh, dass ich den langen Trip gebucht hab, da ich dann noch etwas mehr von der Natur und dem Park gesehen hab.

... We met our kayak guide for the day, a very nice English guy called Steve, we got our gear sorted and we boarded on a really fast aqua taxi for a ride to the starting point of the kayak tour. The landscape was really pretty. The marriage of untouched deep green mountain ranges and tropical sea water was gorgeous. The weather however was less so. It was really quite cold and the water temperature was at 18 degrees Celsius. We arrived at the ...

... types of Lilies etc that attach themselves to the host tree, its sometimes hard to distinguish the Rimu from everything else unless you look right up to the canopy! Happily the road was clear so the bus made it through to take us back on the windy road back to Nelson whereupon another tramp was over and all that was left was to say goodbye to everyone ... though I am expected to join Mike, Shirley, Janet and Brian on a mountaineering group meet some time in the new year!

... was much better and kept everyone informed of where they were, where they were going and made some great suggestions of what to do on each of the stops round South Island. Shame I didn't get him when arrived in Picton 2 weeks ago, I might have made a couple of changes to my schedule ... Hey ho, I've enjoyed everything I've done so there are no complaints there and I can't (neat trick if I could!) manufacture any more days between now and 16th ...

... girls and a Japanese girl called Meeho who works for Stray in the office) and left. Unlike the other tour companies, Stray doesn't stay in Nelson but instead stops in a little village called Maharau, on the closest point possible to the Abel Tasman National Park. We stopped at Makaroa (the nearest town) to stock up at the supermarket and then pooped by a skydiving convention, which had an afternoon of hundreds of skydives, which was cool to watch ...