Well here we go again! Because the first flight of the trip was an early one we, once again, decided to spend the night at the airport, to lessen the pain in the morning. However, instead of the Rydges, we were booked in to the Mantra Sydney Airport which is…
Our flight doesn’t leave until 4.40 pm so we had time today to see a little more of Christchurch before heading to the airport. It was only a few minutes drive from the hotel to the Quake City Museum. Like all the others we’ve visited here, it was excellent .…
I’m afraid neither of us slept well last night, these colds are nasty! We slept in a bit this morning to compensate and went down to breakfast feeling a bit bleary. Breakfast helped and we set off shortly afterwards to drive to Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula. Akaroa is an…
Well the weather report was right, it was bucketing down this morning! We had to put our raincoats on to get to breakfast and the view from the restaurant was much greyer than yesterday. Driving down the coast was very wet and when we turned inland to start the climb…
They say that sharing is caring… so I guess I should be flattered that Neil has caringly shared his cold with me! I’m feeling pretty blah, so the blog posts for the next few days may be a bit sparse on detail and have an excess of spelling mistakes. When…
Well, the weather report was right! When we examined the Metservice website ( the NZ equivalent of BOM) , it said the rain would be constant and at times heavy through the morning bit should clear somewhat in the afternoon. We took our time over breakfast in the restaurant ,…
The workers arrived bright and early this morning to start work on the building site next door, but we’re early risers so it wasn’t a problem for us. We finished off our breakfast supplies which included leftover pate and cheese on toast, then packed up and hit the road. As…
Breakfast this morning was a simple one, toast, fruit and yoghurt. Actually it’s good to have a break from the big hotel breakfasts every now and then , I’m sure my waistline thinks so! There had been rain overnight and the clouds hing low over the mountains when we woke…
As we left Dunedin we saw a few more of their grand old buildings, they really have a fine collection of Victorians here! Only 10 minutes after leaving our downtown hotel we were into rural countryside again and heading northwest along the Central Otago Touring Route. For much of the…
I enjoyed a hotel Big Breakfast this morning at the Langlands. It was very generous ( too much food for me) but I was back to my mushrooms and tomatoes at last ( and they had both!) . We liked this hotel and would recommend it to anyone travelling to…
We set off bright and early this morning, in the now familiar wildly variable weather. One minute sunshine, next minute raining – and this continued pretty much all day. The land heading south was mostly rural farmland with a mix of sheep, cattle and even deer in the fields. There…
We have been watching the weather reports throughout the trip and knew that today was predicted to be wet. However, I wasn’t too concerned as we knew that Milford Sound is supposed to be spectacular in really wet weather because of the multitude of temporary waterfalls that come to life…