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New Zealand

The End of Our New Zealand Trip

Friday, was our last day in New Zealand, Over our 27 day driving tour, we covered 4,660 kilometres and saw the north island from its northern-most point, all the way to its southern-most point.  We had some time to fill in after checking out of our hotel and catching our 3 1/2 hour flight home […]

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New Zealand

Visiting Te Papa Museum.

Yesterday was a lovely sunny day with almost no breeze. We decided to walk along the Wellington waterfront, past some historical cranes and cargo handling equipment, to Te Papa (the National Museum of New Zealand. The building has five floors – each with a different theme. On the ground floor was the section with a […]

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New Zealand

Our Return to Wellington

Our drive to Wellington (our last destination in this trip) would have only taken about an hour so we were looking for ways to fill in some time. Just up the road from our two-night stay at Martinborough is the town of Featherstone. It houses a museum for the Fell Locomotives (a type of cog […]

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