Whare Kea Lodge Wanaka
Mt Aspiring Road, PO Box 115 Wanaka, South Island, 9192, New Zealand
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Wanaka: Queenstown Lite
... shower facilities. We ended up at D'lavande, where Helen Blair is a most gracious host and purveyor of fantastic homemade muesli. She says the recipe is on their website, and I plan to make a few batches once we get home. Yum!!
Helen also offered a wealth of knowledge about the area and suggested many activities to help us fill our time. We had an early dinner at Relishes Cafe, and learned that many New Zealand eateries charge a ...
What the Wanaka
... to answer them, not tasting anything. I may as well then be eating dog pellets. So at 7am in the morning, some random English lady siddles up and sits herself down next to me. No food, just clearly I am the only person she can see and therefore I will be talked to. Seriously, what? Despite being short with her, she still didn’t get the message. So I simply gunned down the cornflakes in record speed again and got up to wash the dishes, leaving her sitting there. She had cornered ...
Kate's Puzzling World of Wanaka
... and for the most is perfectly suited to adults - if anything the place seems to be better suited to adults than kids.
Kates love of mazes was then put to the test when we raced around Puzzling Worlds partially split level maze (1.5km of maze). the aim of the challenge was to visit 4 different corners of the maze in order and then to get out of the finish. It's meant to take between an hour to an hour and a half.
I taunted Kate menacingly ...
Where are all the fish?!
Since the last blog, we had a night in Wellington.Considering it is the capital city, we we're surprised at how quiet it is, even at rush, it seemed to be deserted. We drove a few miles out and spent the night in a rainforest, where we did a five mile trek the next day.
The trip to the south island seemed to take all day thanks to a few delays and a long crossing. After an hours drive we were in the best ...
Strapped to a beautiful stranger
... have recently been up who all seem alive, uninjured and aren’t mourning any recently lost loved ones. My confidence rises fractionally.
Within minutes of arriving we are all jump-suited up and meeting the instructor we will be strapped too. These guys have, only 30 seconds before, been coming down from the previous jump and must do about 50 jumps a day and look perfectly happy about it. All we have to do is just get through ...



