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Franz Josef Glacier (and more caves, yippee!)

Thats right, more caves, climbing & cold! Extreme

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Vegtibbles on September 8, 2006 from Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Crazy Adventures of the Tibbler

Pucker up, anyone for sushi?

A perfect day in Dunedin combined two of our favourite things, alcohol and chocolate as we visited the Speight's Ale House and Cadbury's factory. The entertaining tour of the brewery was educational and not just a piss-up. We learnt that the yeast left over from the brewing process is used to...

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Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin on September 6, 2006 from Christchurch, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Smug Adventures Down Under

Give it some Welly

What a lovely capital city Wellington is. Hold on, the internet money has run out. BBL = Be back later x

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Vegtibbles on September 3, 2006 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The New (Zealand) adventures of the Tibbler

Caving, climbing, abseiling, crawling.

This is the start of something beautiful. The events that occur from the times 8:30 am - 2:pm on the second of September 2006 is the very beginning of what hopefully will be my new hobby. Thats right kids, its Caving. The definition of caving is simple: Climbing around in the dark & wet in a...

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Vegtibbles on September 2, 2006 from Waitomo Caves, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Crazy Adventures of the Tibbler

Car trouble part trois

After a night in Te Anau we woke to a landscape carpeted in snow. In order to travel to Milford Sound we were legally required to carry snow chains in our car. The drive was spectacular, taking us through a winter wonderland of Narnia-esque proportions where we felt it appropriate to crank up...

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Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin on September 2, 2006 from Te Anau, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Smug Adventures Down Under

Murph's 22nd birthday

Friday 25th August brought Helen Patricia Murphy's 22nd birthday. After receiving her extremely grownup gifts of a cuddly toy lamb and massive bar of chocolate, we did what we believe most 22 year olds do to celebrate their birthday and went for a round of indoor minigolf. It was the most...

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Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin on September 2, 2006 from Te Anau, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Smug Adventures Down Under

The band

The band,

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Vegtibbles on August 31, 2006 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Crazy Adventures of the Tibbler

The zorbing, Jet-boating, Rafting & falling down a 7m waterfall...

This place is stinky

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Vegtibbles on August 28, 2006 from Roto, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Crazy Adventures of the Tibbler

The famous four

The beginning (another one) of the famous four adventures. This story, like many others, involves fishing, drinking, camping, Rugby and freefalling over the largest lake in NZ... OH yes, and the meeting of a band. Im now a goupie.

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Vegtibbles on August 27, 2006 from Clevedon, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The New (Zealand) adventures of the Tibbler

Sky and Ice

The first thing we did when we arrived at Franz Josef was to sample the delights of the only bar in town, The Landing. We woke up the next mornning unwilling to leave the confines of our hostel due to the previous night's behaviour (dancing on chairs in the middle of a near empty bar- the less...

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Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin on August 26, 2006 from Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand

from the travel blog: The Smug Adventures Down Under

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