5 April 2010
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Thanks to the switch from Daylight Saving back to Standard Time, it wasn’t too hard to wake up for our 7am flight from Hokitika to Christchurch connecting to Auckland.
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5 April 2010
Thanks to the switch from Daylight Saving back to Standard Time, it wasn’t too hard to wake up for our 7am flight from Hokitika to Christchurch connecting to Auckland.
4 April 2010
From Hokitika we drove down to the two Glaciers … Franz Josef and Fox. Actually there are many more glaciers but these are the two that are open to visitors and managed by the Department of Conservation (with marked walking tracks etc for safety). While glaciers are pretty, the rivers that run from them aren’t […]
3 April 2010
We drove from Picton to Hokitika today to set ourselves up for the glaciers tomorrow. The road trip would have been 5 hours non-stop but naturally we stopped a little bit to take in the scenic beauty. We picked up a hitch hiker Phil from Germany who was bound for Greymouth (in our direction). He […]
2 April 2010
It was meant to be an early morning start out of Auckland but we found out that the flight to Blenheim on the bigger plane was full …. one of the complications of using staff standby tickets. We managed to get on the 11:15 flight on a smaller and fully-packed aircraft, affording us a leisurely […]
28 November 2009
In the morning we wandered around admiring Dunedin’s beautiful old buildings including the railway station. We broke for a snack at the markets near the station which sold many home-made goodies, savoury and sweet. Text continues after this gallery. In the afternoon (yes, a strange time to start), we were picked up to […]
27 November 2009
While Christchurch is the most English city in New Zealand, Dunedin is the most Scottish … it is referred to as the Edinburgh of the southern hemisphere. Dunedin’s airport is rather far from the city but fortunately there is competition amongst the shuttle providers and I managed to prebook a very cheap transfer service which […]
27 November 2009
With Marie (my friend and overseas visitor) here, I thought I’d join her in Dunedin for the weekend. I’ve always wanted to go to the Royal Albatross Colony. After a full day at work, I headed out to the airport to fly down to Dunedin on Air New Zealand’s ex-Indonesian aircraft. I could tell because […]
27 October 2009
The weather in New Norcia cleared and we were finally able to admire the exterior of the town’s buildings. Text continues after this gallery. Driving down from new Norcia to Perth Airport, we had a couple of hours to kill. We called into McDonald’s for free internet and realised that our flight scheduled […]
26 October 2009
The 0500 arrival into Perth meant that we’d have trouble resting our sleep-deprived heads in a hotel unless we paid for the night before. Because of this, we drove straight to New Norcia, less than 2 hours outside of Perth. For a combination of reasons, we still arrived at New Norcia Hotel too early at […]