Monday, March 09, 2009

The North Island

Currently we are in the north island, in a place called Hamilton, we will be spending 3 days here and just travilling around having fun and such. Till now the north island has been rather green, although I think there was more dense nature in the South Island. All in all i’m enjoying New Zealand still.

We have been to Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier, Taupo and Rotorua. After Rotorua we saw Tauranga which is a very nice place, in Tauranga we hired a car and drove to the Coromandel. There we got alot of nice pictures and saw great beaches. We’ve also been to Mount Maunganui (yes that’s a mouthful). From Tauranga we took the bus at 7:50am to Hamilton where we now are located at the Eagles Nest, a cosy hostel in the center of Hamilton.
We’ll keep you posted…

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Going North

Hello Everyone,

Currently we are in Napier, enjoying really sunny weather (finally we have sun again). After christchurch we went towards Kaikoura, there I went whale watching in a sea sickmaking sea.. after that we headed up north to picton where we stayed one night at atlantis backpackers which wasn’t the best hostel ever but it was just for one night.
Then we took the Interislander to Wellington where we had a good time eventhough the weather wasn’t the best ever, I’ve been to the movies many a time, and saw the beehive, cable car and botanic gardens there. The gardens were really nice I have a few pictures of them which I shall try to upload. We stayed with family in Palmerston North which was nice, we played our first real game of Golf Croquet in which I got my butt kicked, I also went for a relaxing swim in the local pool which was superbly relaxing. Now we are in Napier and will be going to the marine park and viewing the sights to see… but first we attack starbucks!
Take care whatever the temperature is

p.s. Sweet As, Bro, Fush & Chups just for your daily fix of kiwi slang

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Last Days in Christchurch

Gradually we are getting ready to go up north to Kaikoura, our last few days in Christchurch are coming closer, actually it’s monday when we leave christchurch. (For Holland Monday Morning). So we have alot to do yet and still have packages to send home, I have a supply of sweets heading home of course As for the rest the weather here is still good, nice and warm, sunny and very little cloud. Which has the result that i’m slowly losing skin from being sunburnt, but no pain no gain right? :p

We have now been to Dunedin, Queenstown, Wanaka, Lake Tekapo and Hanmer Springs. I likes Queenstown alot… well basically it was all good but queenstown had something to it… Touristy place yes, but still nice location and active.
Dunedin was a nice place to see nature, we saw Albatrosses, Sea Lions, Seals and Penguins. Wanaka was a fun timeout spot there we went to puzzeling world and got lost in the maze. I also went for a walk up Mt. Iron which was good fun, I had a few nice views from the top. Lake Tekapo was a really good place for stargazing which was awesome to see Saturn up close through a rather large telescope, one i’d like to have at home. Of course today we also had a good time at Hanmer Springs, sat and soaked in the Hot Pools.

Well i’ll update again in Kaikoura , Take care for now

Cheers.