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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.

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on September 1, 2009 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...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 29, 2009 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....

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 27, 2009 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...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 26, 2009 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...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 24, 2009 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...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 23, 2009 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...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 21, 2009 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....

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 19, 2009 from Rotorua, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Better Than Brioche (or Cake)!

The bus journey to Rotorua took most of the day. We had included Rotorua in our New Zealand itinerary as it is billed as ''the'' place for ''maoritanga'', Maori culture, and we were to stay there for three nights since, after feeling rushed in China, I thought this was the minimum necessary for...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 18, 2009 from Rotorua, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

A Massive Comedown

This was our first test of Naked Bus, with whom we had booked our entire ground transport around New Zealand. When we arrived at the bus I showed the bus driver the text message with our reference details, just like the web site said we should. The text messages cost a little extra, but they...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on August 16, 2009 from Paihia, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

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