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Art Deco in the rain

When we arrive in Napier - after a fairly hairy drive in the driving rain and mist along a winding mountain road - it's raining and most people hunker down in the hostel, Archie's Bunker, to play board games and take advantage of the massive tv screen and huge amount of dvds (somehow the girls...

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LizIsHere on March 26, 2010 from Napier, New Zealand

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meaderings in Wellington

I'm not that keen on cities, but Wellington being so big (on a NZ-scale of big, obviously) means there's lots do over the four days I have there. The Te Papa museum, just down the road from the hostel, is a massive, very interactive museum, with exhibits on everything from the geological...

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LizIsHere on March 25, 2010 from Wellington, New Zealand

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The Windy City

It's chucking it down when I leave Picton on the Interislander ferry (a very nice German lady from the hostel, who I've never spoken to but who notices me staring forlornly out at the downpour from the JR porch, laden with bags, gives me a lift to the ferry terminal). The crossing is nothing...

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LizIsHere on March 24, 2010 from Wellington, New Zealand

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a train! not a bus! wow

A 5am start for my 6am shuttle bus to my 7am Tranzcoastal train to Picton this morning. Still, the train makes a wonderful change from the bus - being able to get up and walk around, and even having a spare seat next to me to stretch out on is bliss. Plus, I'm heading back to the Juggler's...

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LizIsHere on March 23, 2010 from Picton, New Zealand

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Cold fear at 15,000 feet.

No sooner had we dried off from the white water rafting, and we were on the way to Taupo. Apparantly Taupo is one of the sky diving capital of the world, due to the good weather etc. Tim had been mentioning sky diving before we even left London, but I had been trying to block this out of my...

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Tim and Em on March 23, 2010 from Taupo, New Zealand

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Hawke's Bay

As the readers of our blog probably have picked up on, both of us are very much ‘last minute planners’ so decisions about where to go, where to stay and where to eat are usually made about 30 minutes before it will happen. We have some free maps in the car that we had picked up at tourist...

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Victoria & Robert on March 23, 2010 from Napier, New Zealand

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Whitianga to Rotorua

After leaving Phil and Laura's we drove to Whitianga in the Coromandel peninsula. We checked into our hostel which was about 25 metres from a very nice beach - we could see the water from our balcony. After dumping our stuff, we then drove to hot water beach. 2 hours either side of low tide,...

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Tim and Em on March 22, 2010 from Rotorua, New Zealand

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Lake Tekapo to Christchurch

When we leave Oamaru it's hot and sunny again, and I've made myself a friend, a seven-year-old Taiwanese girl travelling on the bus with her mum. As soon as she finds out I'm vegetarian, that's it: she spends practically the entire one-hour journey to the viewpoint of Mount Cook running...

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LizIsHere on March 20, 2010 from Christchurch, New Zealand

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Exploring the North Island

We’ve spent the last week exploring the northern island of New Zealand and arrived in Wellington late in the evening after a very rough ferry ride between Picton on the south island and Wellington on the north island. Luckily, we had pre-booked a hotel (not that common for us) and went...

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Victoria & Robert on March 19, 2010 from Wellington, New Zealand

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Penguins! Little blue ones this time...

We stop at the Moeraki boulders on the way to Oamaru - weird, alien-like round boulders which have been eroded from the cliffs and rolled/fallen out onto the beach. Without knowing how they came to be (guess who didn't read the info board before going down to the beach to look), it was a weird...

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LizIsHere on March 18, 2010 from Oamaru, New Zealand

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