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Kiwi, Kiwi, Kiwi (Air Connu)
... amann, tu peux t'entraîner!
Cette histoire de beurre mise à plat, nous pouvons reprendre notre écriture.
Nous pensions pleurer l'Australie pendant quelques jours mais à la seconde où nos orteils se sont posés sur le sol de Christchurch, toutes nos peines s'étaient envolées!
Nous avons donc atterri à l'Est de l'Ile Sud de la NZ. Christchurch est la plus grande ville de cette île avec près de 300 000 habitants, autant ...
Where Have I been?!
... catch some live music and visit Puzzle World, which had a 1.5km maze! Being competitive in nature I finished the maze in a blistering time but had a lot of fun!
Everybody asks if Queenstown is worth the hype. It's hyped up a lot. I mean a lot! Queenstown is great, if you have money. There isn't anything to do thats free really. Although I found one or two. First was the Gondola which provided amazing views over Lake Wakitpu and ...
South Island New Zealand - it's a long one!!!
... we saw another Jucy we waved at each other! We headed straight onwards as we would be revisiting Christchurch for a few days at the end of our trip. So ploughed on down the East coast. We drove into the night and tried to find a DOC campsite. We ended up driving in the darkest night, not even a moon to light the way. The road turns to gravel which turns to rocks and then we have a Ford warning...it was a bloody massive dip, which the wagon would never of made ...
Tremors
... s scenic beauty!
Akaroa is a quaint town with a French history, which charmingly has all the street signs in the French language. There’s a foreign feel to the place, and it was an excellent escape after melancholic Christchurch. We ended up spending the night in a fantastic campsite called Onuku Farm Hostel, a few miles past town. There’s a really welcoming atmosphere, plenty nature trails you can use to explore the land, and ...
Magnificent scenery and magnificent spirit
... interesting so we stopped in Ranfurly, one of the places where the trail crosses the road to enquire about renting bikes for the afternoon. This turned out to be very easily arranged and we were soon pedalling our way merrily along a very easy track , going mainly downhill (Yey!) through a wide open landscape with mountains in the distance. The weather was ideal, sunny and not too hot, and every few Kms there was an information point with interesting ...