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
We’ve just returned from our first holiday of the year… Sunny Sardinia. The Hopkins family (+1) invaded the Italian island for a week, and had a great time. We stayed in a lovely set of villas, with a great pool (which for some reason we managed to empty within 30 mins everytime we descended upon
We’ve finalized our New Zealand itinerary, funnily enough only just before we go to Sardinia for a week. The list is as follows Arrive Auckland via Hong Kong Kerikeri (Bay of Islands) Coopers Bay Auckland Waitomo Caves Taupo Taupo (go to Rotorua) Palmerstone North Wellington Interislander Ferry to Picton Kaikoura Christchurch Greymouth Franz Josef Wanaka
We’ve spent the last week trying to work out our holiday plans for the year and it’s not easy. The plan is to Fly to Auckland, hire a camper van and then drive around the two islands (complete with ferry crossing) for 3 weeks before flying back home from Christchurch. We’ve had to check flights,
[image:877:c:s=5] I’ve upload more pictures from Alaska. Believe it or not this blue is completely genuine and just like it was like down a glacier crevasse. I’ve not image processed this shot all all.