Last night we stayed in Dunedin and during the day we visited a penguin sanctuary that allowed you to get close to the Yellow Eyed Penguins due to the network of tunnels they had built for viewing and we also did the Cadbury World tour. Back last Tuesday we left Franz Josef and headed for […]
For the second time in 2 years we find ourselves looking up at a glacier. This one isn’t quite as big as some of the ones we saw in Alaska but the Franz Josef glacier is impressive nevertheless. We arrived into the town of the same name this morning with hopes of doing a helicopter
Today we find ourselves in the sleepy town of Greymouth and the plan is for a nice relaxing night in. It’s been a hectic few days so I’ll try to recap what we’ve gotten up to. As mentioned below we went to the Waitapu Thermal Village where we got to see all sorts of different
It’s not that we’ve eaten anything dodgy but yesterday we arrived into Taupo – home of NZ’s largest lake with a major wind blowing. Waves were crashing, dust blowing and it was bitterly cold. Previous few days have seen us go out with dolphins although we didn’t get to swim as there were baby dolphins
We’re currently sat relaxing at the Kingfisher Retreat in Keri Keri writing the first of our New Zealand blogs. After a long flight we arrived yesterday morning in Auckland and it has to be said that the customs and such were so much easier and quicker than in our country. We got picked up in
We’ve not updated in a while but a lot has happened. Dave completed his triathlon, the wedding is booked and we’re 3 days away from our trip to New Zealand. Wedding is booked for 20th September 2008 in Llyswen near Brecon with the service at a local church and then the reception at Llangoed Hall. We’ll be