South Beach Motel & Motor Park Greymouth

... bit - to explain the NZPD title - on the way down from Picton I was booked for speeding- twice in less than an hour and a half!! Some sort of a record eh?
The first time was just outside a place called Nelson, I was doing 128ks in a 100k limit.. 230 dollar fine - Exactly 1 hour and 17 minutes later I was nicked again, 111ks in an 80k limit - 300 dollar fine ... That was total b***ocks, I was never going that fast.
The police were ...

... dem Saegen... Gluecklicherweise hat unser Schnarcher im Zimmer irgenwdann eine andere Schlafposition gefunden und ich kann dann doch wieder zurueck ins Bett. Um halb fuenf wird Mark von der Putzkolonne geweckt und ins Bett gescheucht, schnauzt laut den - vermeintlichen - Schnarcher zusammen; ohne zu merken, dass es zwischenzeitlich Werner ist, der uns das einschlafen schwer macht.Hach ja.... eine sehr kurze Nacht. Wieder. Aber lustig wars! Und das war erst der Anfang! ;-)

... decided to sleep without my 5 layers and 3 pairs of socks. Big mistake, as the heater decided to die during the middle of the night and I awoke freezing all over. Everything was cold: the pillow, the duvet, my skin - there was absolutely no warmth at all anywhere. After restoring core body temperature to normal by taking a wonderfully long hot shower we then left to venture into the heart of South Island.

The route we took started through the beautiful Motueka valley where ...

We have arrived on the West Coast - up in Greymouth. We came over Arthur's Pass which was pretty spectacular. We did stay one night in the little village of Arthur's Pass (pop. 25) which was surprisingly noisy as the train line goes right through the pass. I guess the railway is a quick way to get freight from the East to the West as the trains were going all night!! We were ...

I joined the West Coast Trip this weekend which is actually a 2-day trip instead of just a Saturday activity since it is about a four hour drive from Oxford. On the way there we stopped in Arthur's Pass, Greymouth, and at a few lookout points before arriving in Punakaiki. Upon arrival in Punakaiki, we saw the famous Pancake Rocks which sometimes have blow-holes at high tide, but we were not able to ...

... walked the path only to find out you are completely fenced off from the sea and they are on rocks about 30m away. anyway greymouth had picked up a reputation as a bit of a sleepy old town and the only thing to do seemed to be to check into the hostel then go on the monteiths brewery tour and Barbecue which was the only activity available. well i've done breery tours before and to be fair the tour bit is ...

... internally by plane is a joy and is as easy and quick as going by bus or train in the UK. East Coast It was Lyn's birthday on the 2nd and after flying to Christchurch drove to Kaikora on the north east coast via the Waipara wineries (excellent Rieslings) for a birthday lunch in the sun. It was a bit like being on holiday as there were other people on the roads and cafe's were quite busy! Very unusual, but ...

... fancied wine tours and day boat trips (most of the latter all having left by the time we arrived). The weather was also closing in so we decided to leave Nelson and get ahead of ourselves by a day by carrying onto the West Coast to a town called Weestland. At the time we made our way the heavens opened and it was heavy rain all the way to and including our look around Westport. The scenery changed gradually from the rural, greenlands of the ...

... por un tiempo, pero nos quedaban ya menos de 20 dias para dejar nueva zelanda y mucho que ver... asi que nos fuimos direccion a los glaciares pero paramos en los pancakes rocks, unas formaciones misteriosas en la playan que datan de no tengo ni idea, pero un potosi de aņos atras...otra de las maravillas de este continente. Les llaman pancakes porque asi dicen que parecen, no se... lo que si impresionaba son las chimeneas de agua, este se mete por los recovecos de las ...