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Entspannte Hauptstadt
... wir sicherlich in keinster Weise zu Gourmetköchen zählen. Die exzellenten Produkte sind mit ein Grund, weshalb wir seit unserer Ankunft nur im Camper gekocht haben und nie auswärts essen waren. Jedenfalls dominierte in unserem Einkaufswagen die Menge an Fleisch, was uns bereits wieder das Wasser im Munde zusammen laufen liess...:-)
Nach Einchecken auf dem Stadtcamping fuhren wir mit einem Ortsbus ins Stadtzentrum. Überschaubaren Shoppingaktivitäten (Tipp ...
I Heart Wellywood!
... to say we were soon addicted and getting competitive.
With the new dawn came Becky's birthday. Strictly speaking it was her kiwi birthday as we were 11 hours ahead of home, so it was a good excuse as any to extend the celebrations over 2 days! We explored one of the main shopping streets, Lambton Quay, before catching the cable car up to the Botanic gardens. On our walk back down to the city centre we ambled through a feast-for-your-nose herb garden (although, ...
Culture, caving and crossing a volcano
... safe to continue, and to our relief and delight confirmed that we were good to go. However, it was sufficiently treacherous that crampons and ice axes were required, so we huddled around to protect ourselves from the howling wind and strained to hear the instructions on how fit the crampons to our boots and use the ice axe to steady ourselves. After 10 minutes of gloveless grappling, we’d just about managed to achieve our task despite numb fingers. The wind ...
A month on the road with Farmer and Scouse!
... annoy the pair of them on arrival.
Once the two lovebirds arrived we caught the Jucy shuttle bus to Jucy where we collected our home on wheels, which will hopefully get us round the whole of New Zealand in a month.
With us all in the campervan we left Jucy HQ and headed straight for the nearest supermarket to stock up on food.... and alcohol. Once this was done we set off for the campsite we'd booked in advance which was conveniently just around the corner.
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Winter in Wellington
... Leck and Till once invited us to a trip to a Thai Temple in Wainuiomata to donate food to the monks in a little ceremony. And the best thing about it: we got the leftovers to eat afterwards. ;o)
An hour on the bus up north and you're in beautiful Waikanae. On Queen's Birthday weekend we made a trip up there, had a long breezy walk along the beach and visited a little gallery in Paekakariki just to finish off the day with a nice and hot flat white in a ...