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Fur Seals off Doubtful Sound

An early start and on to a small coach that drove us to take the first boat across lake Manapouri on our way to Doubtful Sound. A quick stop at an information centre and then another coach ride up and around mountains with the sides of the tracks fringed in snow. A little strange as it was...

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rickandsuejohnson on August 7, 2007 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: From the Shire to Middle Earth and back

New Zealand North Island - Farewell to Minnie

Before leaving Christchurch, we had one last thing to do – Ollie needed to have a dinner of Roast New Zealand lamb. After a brief discussion, we decided that if Ollie was going to finally have his NZ lamb, we would be best going out. Reception mentioned the Oxford on Avon pub which does a...

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rickandsuejohnson on August 7, 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand

from the travel blog: From the Shire to Middle Earth and back

Sydney in 12 hours and off to New Zealand

Our hotel couldn’t have been more convenient for a short stay. From the front door we could see the Harbour Bridge at the end of the road and across the street the entrance to Circular Quay, so we eagerly set off to walk round the Quay and checked out the harbour cruises. I’d read in the Rough...

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rickandsuejohnson on August 5, 2007 from Te Anau, New Zealand

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More Journeys in the North Island

Since I’ve only seen the 1st and 3rd Lord of the Rings films and have never read the books, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the Hobbiton set. Still, I knew Ollie was excited about it and we made our way to the small town of Matamata to see the farm where the scenes in Hobbiton were...

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olliejohnson on July 31, 2007 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: A Brit and a Canuck Down Under

Houston.............we got a problem...............

We apologise dear readers for the delay in posting this blog. The first draft got lost in Bagkok. The Captain of BA9 must have uttered words very similar to the heading as we flew somewhere over eastern Europe en-route to Sydney. But I get ahead of myself – let's start at the beginning. On the...

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rickandsuejohnson on July 31, 2007 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: From the Shire to Middle Earth and back

Great News!

I know it's been a little longer than planned after the last post, but nothing much has happened, so you can forgive me for sparing unfortuniate readers the tedium. Anyway, yesterday I finally managed to find accommodation! Actually, using the word ‘I’ is a little/lot misleading – my mother...

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Crosswood on July 29, 2007 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand Student, American University.

Another ‘PANIC!’ post

Well, thanks to the accommodation people, I have nowhere to live, and thanks to my father the combined churches of Berkeley think I have no grammar. Dad decided that he would ‘help’ me try to find a billet by sending an email out to the Episcopalian churches in the Berkeley area. Obviously...

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Crosswood on July 23, 2007 from Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Exercise Frosty Boy

Yeah - the town on this thing is wrong. I'm actually in Queenstown. Some of you may have heard that this week I have been on an Army Exercise called Exercise Frosty Boy. It's personal development - on skis! Now I haven't been able to ski before so I was naturally a little nervous. Actually a...

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Crosswood on July 13, 2007 from Queensbury, New Zealand

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The Honey Smuggler

Our journey to Auckland was to actually take 2 flights - the first would take us to Sydney, where we were to have about an hour wait until the next flight took off to Auckland itself. Unfortunately, our first flight departed about ¾ hour late, and was then held up above Sydney for a while...

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olliejohnson on July 7, 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand

from the travel blog: A Brit and a Canuck Down Under

Start up hassels

A friend of mine went on a trip to England last year and blogged that. My mother is heading to Europe and is blogging her trip as well. Apart from the fact my writing style is boring and I’ll probably forget my password, why shouldn’t I blog too? This is just the ‘filler’ post I suppose. I...

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Crosswood on July 5, 2007 from Palmerston North, New Zealand

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