Holiday Island

... in a campervan with my parents. How would i cope? how would they? how could i drive something so big? Could i fit everything in that i planned? Could i make it the holiday of a lifetime for my parents on their first ever holiday? The pressure was on....

... 's Beer Garden,  Happy hour from 15:00 - 19:00PM. Offers 1st class Western & Malay dishes in a stylish holiday - beach atmosphere. Superb wine selection, draft beer and German wheat beer (own import) as well as cocktails.   ...

... some of our previous white knuckle activities! The sunset at the top made the climb worthwhile and after this we headed to the holiday park to get some shut eye after a long day. Friday 11th March we headed further north up the coast towards the Waitomo ...

... North - it would be less of a drive to Wellington where we have to catch the ferry to the South Island on Tuesday morning. We got to the Palmerston North Holiday Park which is on the banks of the Manawatu River. We tried to find a bar to watch the ...

... , but perhaps our judgement may have got skewed as the day progressed.... So that finishes off our travels of the South Island, the more sparsely populated yet incredibly scenic island and we really did zoom around. Doing an almost complete circuit of the ...

... packed for the following day and did our best to sleep in the breezeless warm bungalow. Our two days on rabbit Island were very relaxing, like a holiday from our travels we enjoyed doing nothing but relaxing, swaying in a hammock under the shade of a ...

... Camber Sands- every evening we would all walk up and down the beach finding jelly shoes (we had a collection going on in the holiday homes shed- hoping that some of them would turn into pairs of shoes as there was some really nice ones) and collecting ...

... is full of nice restaurants. We walked around Parliaments building but did not have time to visit as we were taking the Inter-Islander ferry at 8:00 the next morning. We were wondering how the South Island could be more beautiful than the North. ...

... Tasman National Park which is where we are hoping to go tomorrow to do some kayaking, weather permitting of course. Old Macdonalds Holiday Park is a great park, very large a lot of trees, including fruit trees.  This Nelson area seems to be ...

... a ridiculous amount of grub. First on our hit-list was New Year's Eve, so we ventured to Papamoa, which is a little beachside holiday haven for Kiwi's. There we had many a drink and chat with our glacier buddy Ed and watched the stars and fireworks on ...

... So, after finally deciding what time to get up (05.00), i was on the road by 05.45.. As i always do, i asked in the Holiday park the night before what that road was going to be like.. Now this is always interesting to ask people as you soon realise that ...

... a 5.7 earthqualke here yesterday, that appears to have rattled and rolled the little capital of the North Island. We are just hanging out at the Holiday Park tonight, there is an awesome playground with a giant bouncing pillow (like at Grand Prix) and a ...

... . I made the booking online last night about 7 pm.  I was surprised that we could get somewhere to stay. Emu Bay Holiday Homes has several cabins/cottages on 5 acres of hillside overlooking the very scenic Emu Bay. The cabins are just lovely - ...

... on the water at the time of the earthquake in Christchurch but got the news a few hours later when we were back at the Holiday Park where we were staying. So sad... We then headed to the west coast. The road to get there is very scenic with orchards ...

... to our next destination, which it looks like it might be a glacier. Go figure! We stopped for the night at Kiwi Park Motels and Holiday Park, which turned out to be a really nice place, Zandrea and Mikkel got to go bottle feed the baby lambs when we got ...

... evening, we decided to come all the way down to Takapuna, immediately north of Auckland, and we are staying at the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park. We can almost see Auckland CBD across the bay, and tomorrow, we will take bus and ferry into the CBD area and ...

... Tim waited in the van. Reserved a space by phone at a place we found in the guidebook which looked interesting, Portobello Village Holiday Park, on the Otago Peninsula, just outside of Dunedin. Turned out to be a parking lot for monstor vans. However, ...

... we are now in Christchurch New Zealand and running on fumes after a late night flight from Rarotonga.  We checked into the Holiday Inn City Centre, this is where we get picked up tomorrow for the start of our 14 day South Island trek. The World ...

... you call recycling!  First half of the trip was quite rough but as soon as we were hugging the coast toward Picton it was much calmer.  Off the boat and onto Nelson to the city holiday park.  Short walk around the town then back to ...