March 31, 2009
March 27, 2009
Hong Kong Phooey
Here we are, in the rainy and foggy Hong Kong. We got here this morning, one hour ahead schedule, so at 5am local time more or less. After 11 hours of flight, 2 films and a failed attempt to sleeping in the economy class air new Zealand, we were fresh as a daisy. We took […]
March 26, 2009
Last day in New Zealand
Here we are, in Christchurch airport waiting to board. I am now on the iPhone. Looks like we get 15 min of free wifi here. We woke up again in the jail backpackers and this time we had proper breakfast: the sausages that we still had and the beans 😉 We finished the bread and […]
March 25, 2009
Christchurch
We woke up this morning in our cell in the jail guesthouse and after having breakfast we decided to spend the day in Christchurch, so the car would rest for a day 😉 The original plans were to drive to Hanmer Springs, a thermal village where nuria wanted to go to soak in hot […]
March 24, 2009
Banks peninsula
After a long sleep for the driver (near 11 hours) in the Queen bedroom we went straight to the kitchen to fry our beef sausages for breakfast. We escaped a fine, as in NZ you have to park your vehicle in the sense of the traffic, and we always have parked where we saw a […]
March 22, 2009
From Tekapu to Akaroa
We woke up in the “Tailor Made Tekapu Backpackers”, had breakfast and put our backpacks in the car, that this time was completely frosted in ice. Tekapo is at 760m of high and is probably the coldest place in NZ. The idea was to go up Mount John where on top there is an observatory […]
March 22, 2009
Aoroki (Mount Cook)
After a cold night at Omahau Downs (but with heating in our room 😉 ) in Twitzel we had breakfast and left direction to Mount Cook, around 50 Km of where we where. The earlier evening in the living room we had to light fire. It can get pretty cold here in this area, even […]
March 21, 2009
No blue, yellow-eyed, black-crested penguins
Saturday morning, raining like hell, good thing we went yesterday to the lovely Otago peninsula. It stopped for 2 minutes just to give us the time to load the car, and continue the road trip. Direction the Mackenzie country, NZ’s treasured highland. On our way, the weather started clearing up and timid sun shone. We […]
March 20, 2009
Catlins and the Sea Lions
We woke up in the house with great views over the ocean (hilltop backpackers) that we had for ourselves. We had breakfast and we took the road in the opposite direction to go to a couple of places that we missed in our way here: two waterfalls (McLean falls and Purakaunui falls) a lake and […]
March 19, 2009
Slope Point (4800 km from South Pole)
We overslept today, at 8.15 when the alarm went off, I did not want to get out of bed. I could heard the rain furiously hitting the roof of our nice place. Dani got up complaining about the many bites he had all over his body, saying that he woke up twice cause of the […]