Adelaide Airport
2014年10月29日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Auckland airport
2014年10月29日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Safe and sound in Auckland! It's late - straight to the hotel for a few hours sleep before we start!
Auckland Airport Hotel
2014年10月30日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Starting out from the Auckland Airport Hotel (not flash!) we grabbed a hire car and drove south, stopping at Hamilton for lunch and a look round.
Destination : Tauranga
Seascape Villa B&B, Tauranga
2014年10月30日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Staying overnight with a delightful couple in their beautiful B&B home, we were very impressed with Tauranga. The weather has been kind to us also, blus skies and no rain.
Tauranga
2014年10月31日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
A few hours looking around Taraunga were really well spent. It's a very beautiful part of the world.
Hobbiton, Matamata
2014年10月31日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We spent half a day at the BRILLIANT Hobbiton, where the Hobbitty parts of the Lord of The Rings was filmed! LOTR and Hobbit fans will not be disappointed!
Rotorua
2014年10月31日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We drove on to Rotorua. Rotorua announces itself as you drive over the hills above it with a rather interesting sulferous odour. Absolutely fascinating place. We took a tour of a local village, whoもっと詳しく
Skyline Rotorua
2014年10月31日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
For tea in Rotorua we ventured by Cable Car up to Skyline Rotorua.
Absolutely AMAZING views, and the food was great too!
The adventurous can toboggan or mountain bike down the mountain! We took theもっと詳しく
Lake Taupo
2014年11月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
We set out this morning to meet up with an old pal in Napier, stopping at Lake Taupo for a look around.
Napier
2014年11月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
What a great town! Napier is really pretty, with a strong focus on Art-deco design. Lots of vintage cards driving around, and the Bay is just georgous. Would like to spend some more time hereもっと詳しく
Wellington
2014年11月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We drove from Napier on to Wellington, through some amazing country and some mountains where the winds were so strong a camper-van blew over!
Then a flight on to Christchurch.
Christchurch
2014年11月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We over-nighted in Christchurch in the delightfully named but somewhat disappointing Gingerbread Lodge B&B.
A long-time sister city to Adelaide, and sharing the same architect (Colonel Light) it wasもっと詳しく
Geraldine (Car Museum)
2014年11月3日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Grabbing another rental car, we drove onward to Lake Tekapo, a great scenic drive which took us through Geraldine, a charming little town where we noticed signs to a local Car Museum. That looked likeもっと詳しく
Lake Tekepo
2014年11月3日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Driving steadily north brought us to Lake Tekepo - and WAS IT COLD! Totally worth it though, as the local scenery was just stunning!
Moeraki Boulders
2014年11月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
On our way to Dunedin we stopped off at a tourist spot that boasts some HUGE marbles!
Dunedin
2014年11月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌙 7 °C
Definitely one of our favourite places so far, we stayed with some delightful fold at the Leithview B&B, who had an amazing menagery of animals and home cottage industries - really delightful hosts!もっと詳しく
Larnach Castle
2014年11月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
We did quite a bit of sight-seeing around Dunedin, including the brilliant and beautiful Larnach Castle!
Royal Albatross Center
2014年11月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Loads of other birds, but the Albatross were in hiding the day we went :(
Lake Te Anu
2014年11月6日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Lovely little town, wish we'd stayed longer!
Milford Sound
2014年11月7日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
We did the obligatory cruise through the Milford Sound, and it was all we expected. Must see!
The coach trip from Te Anu was really interesting too, amazing scenery and a really informative tourもっと詳しく
Queenstown
2014年11月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Dave: I'd been to Queenstown before, in the snowy Ski Season. Much nicer with good weather, really pretty place. The drive in was extremely scenic also.
LOADS to do in and around Queenstown.
Arrowtown
2014年11月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We had an afternoon in Arrowtown, and old Mining Town about 20km from Queenstown. Some really quaint little shops and cafes!
Skyline Queenstown
2014年11月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
After really enjoying Skyline Rotorua, we had to try the one in Queenstown!
The view from the top of the mountain was even more spectacular, but the food wasn't as good.
West Coast New Zealand
2014年11月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Leaving Queenstown, we drove along the stunning West Coast, stopping to admire the scenery as often as we could.
Franz Josef
2014年11月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We had high expectations of the Glaciers at Franz Josef, intending to take a helicopter ride. Alas, for the first time in the trip the weather was against us.. It was raining when we pulled into Franzもっと詳しく
Dani and Dave on the hoofWe take our leave of Australia - New Zealand Bound!