Woodlands Village Motel Dunedin

... the wrong side of the peninsula. Just when I was about to start cursing our luck we had our first sighting of an albatross! Even though we only stayed for 5 minutes, as we had to rush to the penguins, we saw at least three of them – It’s not like they are hard to spot. Huge wing span and rather intimidating, I’d like to see one alongside the condors from Peru and measure them up. So with renewed faith in nature spotting we headed off to Sandfly Bay, and ...

... movie the kite runner is used to represent the man searching for his son (the lost kite). And I guess we are all kite runners in a sense. Anyways...I biked to the beach with my new kite, unopened and eager to be born. The wind was not as strong as the first day and I was a bit skeptical about the success of the flight but I continued with the assembly anyway. To be short, the actual flying was an utter failure and, after crashing the kite into the ...

... and got ensconced at our holiday park for the night. We then went for a little walk around Portobello village, taking in the delights of Latham Bay along the way! We had lamb rogan josh for dinner before bed. Then on Friday we had a great day. We woke up early and drove to the South of Dunedin to do the Tunnel Beach Walk. The sun was shining and the wind was howling so we wrapped up and set off. The view as we walked down ...

... decouvre un autre aspect de la NZ. Vers minuit le monde est tellement saoul que je suis sur que la baggare va eclater. Ca se bouscule, ca renverse de la biere partout, ca fleurte avec les blondes des autres... mais non, il semble que ce soit la coutume locale, on me dit qu'il y a une culture de boisson en NZ, mais que c'est peace and love, heureusement pour ma face parce qu'a la quantite de monde qu'il y avait a cet endroit, je ...

... really lovely three bed and three bathroom apartment (see pictures). Once we had unpacked and had a restorative drink, we went out and explored the centre of the city and found some really well preserved Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco buildings, including the old railway station, which is used as the start of what is described in the Lonely Planet guide, as one of the world's best railway journeys. We got back to the apartment around 6.00 and decided that as the place is so ...

... arrived at Lavender House, our "historic" (19th century) B & B at Portobello in one piece, had a quick dinner and headed out to the nature reserve at the end of the peninsula which, we had been told, was the best place to view the diminutive Blue Penguins as they came back to their burrows after a day out at sea, catching fish. John initially devoted himself to admiringly watching the handsome Royal Albatrosses from the nearby colony in their elegant ...

... Demi, I missed my time slot, and it turns out that they're a bit funny about tour timing round Willy Wonka's way. Maybe they were just really busy today, I don't know, but I figured it wasn't worth arguing and left them to it. (I'll just have to go to the one in the UK some time instead!) Instead, I strapped on my elbow patches and headed for Dunedin Art Gallery, which was right next to the car park, as luck would have it. They had a fantastic ...

... faehrt. Und schliesslich besitzt es das zweimeist fotografierte Gebaeude der Suedhalbkugel (die Eisenbahnstation). (Ein 10 Euro amazon.de Gutschein fuer denjenigen, der mir als erstes schreibt, welches das meistfotografierte Gebaeude der Suedhalbkugel ist:-). Und es gibt die Cadbury Schokoladenfabrik, die Fuehrungen anbietet, Cadbury Schokolade ist allerdings nicht meine Lieblingsschokolade:-) Ich habe hier noch meine restlichen Zeugnisse von einer ...

... the weather turned quite nasty along the way - lashings of rain and howling winds- though what would you expect as you head closer and closer to the antarctic!!! so thats about it from me. im typing against the clock here as i want to put up some photos aswell. thanks for all the mails from everyone - always great to hear from you all. missing you all lots & lots & will actually be home in about 10 weeks (!!!!!) so cant wait to see lots of you again soon. xx

... local curiosity in an otherwise unremarkable suburb. Baldwin Street is not the steepest street in the world, but because the Guinness Book Of Records lists it as such, they've got a little plaque there saying that it is. There was a typo in the records, claiming the gradient to be 1:1.266 (38° or 79%), which would be impossible to walk up. Corrections were made and Guinness still lists it as being the steepest street, but at 35%. Canton Avenue in Pittsburgh is 37 ...