Lake Ohau Lodge Twizel
2295 Lake Ohau Road, P O Box 51 Twizel, Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
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Start of our NZ tour!
15/05/11
so our lovely hostel owner kindly offers to drop us off at our tour meeting point in Christchurch. the tour group is a lot bigger than expected and we're travelling on a full size coach. lot diff from our Asia tour in size of group and transport! the group is mainly Ozzy for the 1st wk with only 2 other girls from the UK who r living …
Is It Time To Go Home Yet?
Song of the Day: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley (ill explain in a minute why I picked this)
It was an early early morning on the boat today. Waking up to Bohemian Rhapsody is not exactly my ideal start to the morning. From what I gathered it wasn't much of anyone else’s ideal starter either. I think at this point most people had just …
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