• Isi Schwingen
  • Jake Searle
  • Isi Schwingen
  • Jake Searle

Jake and Isi in Middle-Earth

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  • Oamaru

    29 mei 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    Oamaru turned out to be quiet a nice town. We went to the Oamaru lookout where we had lunch and played our new game bananagrams 🍌
    We also wondered around town and saw some neoclassical buildings, the Victorian Precinct and a pretty cool playground.Meer informatie

  • Steampunk HQ

    30 mei 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

    Oamaru claims to be the steampunk capital of the world. A good way to describe steampunk is that it's a vision of the future, as dreamed up by a person living in the 19th century. We visited the Steampunk HQ which has a collection of artwork and displays in the steampunk style.Meer informatie

  • Edoras

    2 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

    Mount Sunday was the film site for Edoras in the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers movie. So we obviously had to go there. This LOTR location is set in a super beautiful landscape in the middle of the country with nothing else (apart from a few cows 🐄) around.Meer informatie

  • Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools

    3 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    With our south island trip nearly coming to an end, we decided to treat ourselves to a spa day. The Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools were the perfect place to do so. There were all sorts of different natural hot pools (34 - 42 °C) with different minerals like sulphur, calcium and sodium and also four really fun slides.Meer informatie

  • Kaikoura

    4 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Our plan was to go to Kaikoura to go whale watching. Unfortunately the tours weren't going out during alert level 2. Hopefully we'll be able to come back some time.
    Instead of whale watching we went to the Kaikoura lookout and Kean Point where we saw some seals and our friends Emile and Pauline.Meer informatie

  • Wellington Zoo

    7 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Until the end of June the entry for Wellington Zoo is for free so we, including our friends Emile and Pauline, decided now is the best time to go. We were really happy to finally see Kea's even though it wasn't in the wild and they were doing grown up things 😂 we did get to see their pretty colours though. We also saw an Emu in an open enclosure, Capybaras, running giraffes (sooo cool, they look like they're running in slow motion 😂) and otters.Meer informatie

  • Belgian Friends

    9 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    After meeting Emile and Pauline in Auckland at the start of our travels we met up with them loads of times in the North and South Island and became good friends. We took the ferry back to Wellington together and then spent a couple of days there with them. On our last night together we did a pub quiz in the Green Man Pub and on their last day we went to the Wellington Chocolate Factory. Now they're off back to Auckland and then home.
    It was lovely meeting the two of you and we'll definitely be seeing you again, either in Belgium, Germany or somewhere else in the world ❤
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  • The Weta Cave

    14 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Weta Workshop is a special effects and prop company based in Wellington. Producing props for TV and film alongside directors such as Peter Jackson, Weta went on to work on The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films. Weta hand crafted just under 50,000 individual pieces for Lord Of The Rings alone. They also hired a self taught blacksmith who hand forged all of the swords for the films. Here are a couple of pictures from the Weta Workshop tour.Meer informatie

  • Board Games

    21 juni 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    We went to two board game places, the Caffeinated Dragon and Counter Culture, with Hannah, Max, Stephen and Kayla. It was great fun drinking coffee/beer while trying out new board games 🐉

  • Hostel Dinners

    1 juli 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

    We had a couple of dinners at the hostel with a our hostel friends. One of them was a pot luck dinner where everyone cooks a different dish and brings it to the table for everyone and another one a pizza night. Manny also made a lovely strawberry cake for Max's farewell.Meer informatie

  • Mittens

    13 juli 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    Mittens is a famous Wellington cat. He has an owner but during the day Mittens likes to wonder the streets of Te Aro. He loves to have people around him, goes into shops and flats, sometimes even takes elevators or jumps into cars. A couple of months ago Wellingtons mayor gave Mittens the key of the city. He is now officially called Mittens - His Royal Floofiness. The Wellington museum also put on a little exhibition on Mittens.Meer informatie

  • Rugby

    18 juli 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    We went to watch the rugby. We saw the Hurricanes (Wellington) play the Blues (Auckland) at the Sky Stadium in Wellington. The Hurricanes won. It was great fun watching the game with our friends 🏉

  • Mid-Year Christmas Dinner

    19 juli 2020, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    We had a mid-year christmas dinner with our hostel family. Everybody made some food and shared it with the others. Lucy and Isi, the Germans, made Käsespätzle and Jake made really good roast potatoes. We also had roast pork, stuffing, lots of roast vegetables, pumpkin mash, deviled eggs, salad, mulled wine and lots of great desserts.Meer informatie