Glenfern Villas

... to cover more than 600 kms, and probably means that we were lucky to get away with just one ticket! We checked into the Glenfern Villas, which is about 3kms north of the Franz Josef settlement and then went down to get our first, long distance view of ...

... . That night we ate at Beaches and learned our lesson to eat earlier to get decent food! Then we slept in the lovely Glenfern Villas, which were nice and cute minus the lack of heat! There were amazing views of stars though. June 11th Monday Today ...

We moved on from Kaikoura crossing the breadth of the country and on to the West Coast.  The trip to the Glaciers was to be almost 8 hours so we decided to do 6 and stay over at Hokitika.  I love that name - it conjours up some kind of South ...

Franz Joseph is a little town catered mainly to the glacier tourists. Ian and LG went to a 40-minute glacier helicopter ride that includes a landing on top of the glacier. Ian was dazzled by the helicopter as well as the magnificent glaciers. After a ...

Greymouth took the name from its situation at the mouth of the Grey River. Took some photo stops at the floodwall walk which is also called "The great wall of Greymouth" that protects the town area from flooding. We headed down the west coast to the 2nd ...

The drive up the West Coast was like driving through a rainforest.  This part of New Zealand gets 7 times the rainfall compared to the rest of New Zealand and also compared to London.  There are huge tree ferns, and the vegetation is certainly ...

Drove from Queenstown to Fox Glacier no problem (or no worries as they say in Australia and New Zealand).  Edna drove most of the way and loved it.  Told her she should get an automatic car in place of the Rav, so easy to drive.  Franz ...

Determined to make the most of our one full day in Franz Josef, we made a reasonably early start and had breakfast at a cafe on the main street. A charming Belgian girl took our order but unfortunately managed to duplicate almost everything, so Barb ...