After an uneventful time on the West, we began to slowly make our way south along the East Coast. For no other reason than to break up the drive, we stopped in Wanganui. It turned out to be one of our favorite towns so far. A real surprise because we hadn't even heard of it. As you travel through New Zealand you can tell relatively easily where ...

Wellington, je m'accorde une petite pause. Les previsions methorologique annonce du mauvais temps pour aujourd'hui et les deux prochains jours. Bien qu'a mon arrive, en mieux d'apres-midi, je me suis aventurer, avec des compagnons de voyages, au musee de Wellington. Malheureusement, trop fatigue, nous ne sommes reste qu'une heure. Le musee de We...

The first proper day in Wellington - overall, I really like it - had a good day wandering alone for a change and got a fairly good grasp of where everywhere is in the city centre. There are plenty of shops, loads of cafes and general stuff to do, so I think its gonna be quite a fun place to live. Booked a week in the Nomads hostel on the waterfr...

We arrived off the ferry late and in darkness to Wellington.  We had a really hard time trying to get accommodation due to the rugby sevens tournament final being on in wellington this weekend, every man and his dog were in town.  We found a room in a hotel that everyone else seemed to have avoided (probably for good reason), but it wa...

Oh man, diese Stadt ist SO geil! Unser Yha liegt wie gesagt DIREKT im Ausgehviertel in Wellington, eine geile Bar neben der Anderen! Bei uns im Zimmer ist noch ein kanadisches Ehepaar, mit denen habe ich mich gleich erstma ne stunde unterhalten :-) Heute frueh erstma zum Strand gegangen, ein bissel gedoest, danach auf den Mt. Viktoria. Am Fusse ...

Hi all, Tom and I left Auckland with our backpacks full on Wednesday morning, heading for the coach station to Turangi, a small town south of Lake Taupo and north of the Tongarriro National Park.  After 6 hours on the coach we arrived at Turangi, a small town with not much going for it appart from its proximity to the National Park.  W...

So it was straight from Christchurch to Wellington. We took the bus to Picton on the top of the South Island and the ferry across to Wellington. The ferry is meant to be one of the best ferry rides going for the scenery (yes, more scenery) but we didn't get to see any of it because we did it at night. Wellington is a nice little place, maybe eve...

Better look round this time! Actually went round this time and looked at the city.. not too bad! Spent a good bit of time in the museum, because it is free and it seemed like the propper tourist thing to do! I was just chilling in the botanic garden when i got a call off Barry saying that he had locked his only key in his car! So went and helped...

We're on our way to the Land of the Long White Cloud, known as Aotearoa in Maori, and also known as New Zealand in English. This will be about as far away as we can get from our home countries, so it's a strange feeling to be going there. Before getting on our flight to Wellington, we used our frequent flyer cards to get into the business lounge...

Major day of driving. We left out motel just north of Wellington and headed north to Masterton and then east along gorgeous country roads to Castlepoint, a tiny coastal hamlet which is at the only place on a 300km stretch that it's possible to get to by car. The bay was beautiful (of course) but we decided that we had discovered the windiest pla...