Month: January 2007
Wellington & Home
We left the Bay of Islands and headed down the highway to Auckland. Nothing too much to report here. I was hoping to see Officer Dave from that very lame Motorway Madness reality show on TV, but he must have been off booking someone else in another location. The most significant thing about today was […]
Read MoreIn The Bay of Islands
This is a very scenic area of InZid. We are now starting to talk just like the locals. We hope that we might run into an Eckadimmock (one who works in a university) but we only seem to run into Poms who are out here to see their family. Yesterday, we went for a cruise […]
Read MoreBay of Islands
We’ve covered a few kilometers since my last post. Three days ago, we drove from Hicks Bay to Tauranga. It would have been an interesting trip but there is a very strong anti-cyclone over NZ at the moment and this is bringing some very moist air from near Tonga. We drove all day through drizzle […]
Read MoreNapier to Tauranga
We left Napier on Thursday morning, driving through Gisborne and along the east coast of the East Cape (if that’s not too confusing). We reached Gisborne by lunchtime but it didn’t appear to have too much to offer from our tourism point of view, so after lunch we drove on to the East Cape region […]
Read MoreIn The Wairarapa
This morning we picked up a very cheap rental car from the local agent’s house in the executive Wellington suburb of Kandallah. It seemed a bit incongruous going there for what is essentially a ‘Rent a Wreck’ and the taxi driver who took us there from the hotel was quite bemused at the idea. Anyway, […]
Read MoreA Postcard from Wellington
We arrived into Wellington on Saturday afternoon on a sunny, but very windy day. I haven’t been here for many years and was surprised at the extent to which the city has become more modern. There are many more large buildings and a lot more development around the harbour area. Wellingtonians must be very educated […]
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