Så er den første uge gået. En uge der gik med det introduktionsprogram universitet havde planlagt. Det første i programmet var et orienteringsmøde for alle exchange students. Her fik man de mest nødvendige ting at vide og fandt samtidigt ud af at vi er ret mange elever på udveksling her i New Zealand. Tror vi var 400-500 til mødet. Hvoraf mindst...

Well, here we are at sunny (ok today it is rather grey) Dunedin.....the Scottish quarter starts here. We left Timaru this morning, after a brief coffee stop in town and headed to Oamaru, about 50mins away. Here we found The Barrel House, maker of fine NZ whiskey. A little taste warmed us up for the remaining trip to Dunedin. Approx 2 hours later...

Samantha - Just a little way down the coast from Oamaru, we stopped off at the Moeraki Boulders, which are great big spherical rocks in the surf. Apparently they were formed in the cliffs and as the soft sandstone around them was eroded they were 'spat out'. The Maoris thought they were food baskets from an ancient war canoe that was sunk just ...

Kia Ora, We've made it to Dunedin, a Scottish type city on the south island. I'll attach pictures later from Wellington and Christchurch and Dunedin. Tomorrow we head off the to the fiords, then over the Tasman Sea to Australia. In case you're wondering why we're on this trip...Mrs. Wardlow's parents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversar...

Dowling Street, graffiti, street art, cold weather (we bought hats and gloves), students (doing that thing they do where it's bitterly cold but they wear tshirts and shorts), Victorian architecture and a Cadbury factory where you can have a tour round (more on that later) we felt weirdly at home in Dunedin... our kind of town... the journey ther...

It's been a good couple of weeks. I spent the first week driving solo around the north island which included spending a night in the mates house of hitch-hiker i picked up and lots of dangerous roads. Then i drove down to the capital, Wellington, were i got the ferry down to the south island and met up with Jack and Tom (mates from the Hurst are...

Greetings from Dunedin, the largest city I've seen so far in the South Island and center of Scottish descendancy in New Zealand. Dunedin is mostly a student town, but its Scottish heritage is plainly seen in everything from the giant statue of poet Robert Burns in the centre of the "Octagon" (the main square) to the availability of haggis in sto...

So i've come to an important official decision. I will be withdrawing from second semester (my last before i graduate) and pursuing my snowboarding and travel aspirations instead. So school just keeps going and going and going, but most importantly it will do so later less than now - in that oh-so unforseeable future, a little more montreal is n...

J: Hi! And Merry Christmas if you celebrate. We are currently in Dunedin where, surprise surprise, it is raining! Shocking, I know, but actually today felt like a perfectly normal Seattle winter day complete with a wet hike. But let me back up a little to Wanaka so that you get some narrative with the photos we posted. In Wanaka we had a seven y...

Yes, Sea Lions can be scary when they chase you down a beach bearing their teeth. Luckily I was on an organized tour out to the colony and my guide (a tiny little girl) was there to protect us. She'd told us that if we were attacked that the group should stay together and move slowly back into the sand dunes but be careful not to run into anothe...