Wellington What a difference a night makes. It was a chilly start and we had a few chores to complete before making our way to pick up our lunchtime ferry. Things that many people creating itineraries overlook are the...
New Zealand – Lake Taupo to Wellington
Mount Ruapehu We had debated it for weeks and now it was decision time. There was the option to hike 20km along a gravel track to the famous Mt Ngauruhoe which was a stunt double for Mount Doom in...
New Zealand – Rotorua to Lake Taupo via the Waimangu Volcanic Valley
Frying Pan Lake – Smokin’! Waimangu Volcanic Valley As the days pass by and we begin to see an end to this escapade, I realise just what an incredible experience it has been and how lucky we are to...
New Zealand – Mt Manganui, Manganui Beach, the Skyline Rotorua and Luge!
I’m beginning to think that if there is superhuman: Usain Bolt, Sir Stephen Redgrave and Michael Phelps, then there is super, super human, which I have created especially for Michelle and I. We have taken on every challenge that...
New Zealand – Pahia to Tauranga via Auckland
Time to leave the Bay of Islands and head south. Again the weather was a packet of allsorts, one minute a bucket of sunshine, the next a colander full of light rain, warm rain. There is only one...
New Zealand – Russell Island, Doubtless Bay and the Ngawha Pools
The view from Flagstaff Up feeling like I was King of the camp this morning. Everyone else was leaving, such is the life of a traveller! Breakfast was woofed down and we soon found ourselves harbour side waiting for...
New Zealand – Auckland to the Bay of Islands
Chuggaboom 7 – The last of the Chuggabooms! The day of the Jucy Cabana had arrived. The spectre of camping had reared its head again almost 10 years after we had driven around Europe towing a caravan. For those...