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Groundhog Flight

Our bus journey from Queenstown to Christchurch took the whole day. The bus driver clearly fancied himself to be a tour guide and kept putting on his microphone to talk to the passengers. His ability to talk incessantly was really impressive but, since his knowledge ''was'' very good too, it was...

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shedden on September 3 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Fat Man on an Elastic

The day after our day of lovely weather and skiing it was pouring again. We only ventured outside to buy steak to cook and to ask about bungy-jumping options. The young couple sharing the unit with us had packed up and gone snowboarding again quite early in the morning, so goodness knows what...

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shedden on September 1 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Fat Man on an Elastic - The Video

I forgot to include the little video clip I uploaded in the last blog entry, so here it is: And I also forgot to include this quite nice photo of Queenstown taken when we got back from the bungy jump.

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shedden on September 1 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

The First Rule of Ski Club

Almost as soon as we left Fox Glacier the phone reception cut out and stayed at zero for the whole day. We were definitely going to miss the callback from BA. New Zealand has worse mobile phone coverage than any other country we had been to. It's strange because I had expected New Zealand to be...

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shedden on August 29 from Queenstown, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Tomacco or Quito

The journey between glaciers was only 30 minutes, so it was still torrential rain when we arrived at Fox Glacier. The kitchen at this hostel wasn't very good and the attached bar was shut due to lack of customers, but the owner was very nice and sold us a couple of beers to take up to our room....

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shedden on August 27 from Fox Glacier, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

No Power, No View

The drive to Franz Josef took most of the day: we left at 7:30am and only arrived at 4:30pm. What scenery we could see from the bus I thought looked very like Scotland again. Again, the main difference was the trees on the hills. The weather was terrible when we arrived so we were unable to...

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shedden on August 26 from Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Half Nelson

Our bus from Blenheim ended in Nelson. This time we were prepared for there to be no Naked Bus and managed not to miss our transport again. We hadn't originally planned to stay in Nelson but the bus timetables made it impossible to avoid, however we were arriving after dark then leaving first...

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shedden on August 24 from Nelson, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Sweet kiwis and dry wine

The ferry trip to the South Island was very pretty, although the wine from last night's dinner party meant that we didn't have our best sea legs on. It wasn't just a matter of sailing away from one coast and landing at the other: it was about one hour at each end of channels and islets, a...

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shedden on August 23 from Blenheim, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Wellied

Before catching the bus to Wellington, we sent off a volley of Couchsurfing requests for Santiago, encouraged by the fact we were about to head off to our second ever Couchsurfing host. Finally our hours and hours of work had paid off! When we went to get the bus I obediently left my bag...

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shedden on August 21 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Great Tribe of Fifteen Nations

We spent most of the next day in the hostel escaping the rain, me getting irritated by a group of Irish girls who seemed to be so addicted to television that they required it for background noise. They kept walking away leaving the confounded machine on, so I kept getting up to switch it off....

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shedden on August 19 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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