Oamaru
29 maja 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 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, Czytaj więcej
Schöne Gebäude und dann noch ein VW-Käfer im Vordergrund 😍 [Birgit]
Steampunk HQ
30 maja 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Elephant Rocks
30 maja 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The elephant rocks are a collection of large weathered limestone rocks. They are even featured in the Narnia films. Because it's allowed to climb on them we grabed our climbing shoes and did a bit of Czytaj więcej
Mount Cook
31 maja 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
Mount Cook was beautiful. We walked the Hooker Valley Track and enjoyed every bit of it. We got to see the snow capped Mount Tasman and Mount Cook, the highest mountain in NZ. The track ended at the Czytaj więcej
Lake Tekapo I
1 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
Couple of pictures from Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Peel Forest
1 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Quick stop in the Peel Forest. We went to see a really big tree (31m tall, circumference of 9m, over 1000 years old) and a rather unspectacular waterfall.
Edoras
2 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools
3 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Sheep
4 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Just a random sheep crossing on the State Highway. Nothing unusual here 🐑
Kaikoura
4 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
Ferry to the North Island
5 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
This time we took the Interislander Ferry from Picton on the South Island to Wellington on the North Island. The ferry was a bit delayed but at least the sea wasn't as rough as the last time and we Czytaj więcej
Wellington Zoo
7 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Belgian Friends
9 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Zealandia II
13 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
We went to Zealandia for a second time, as like the zoo it's free until the end of June. We had a nice time walking around and spotting some of the rare birds. This time there is the cute North Island Czytaj więcej
The Weta Cave
14 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Coffee Dates
15 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Lots of pictures of coffees ☕
Coffee dates with Hannah, Manny and Lucy 😊
Jake's Birthday
16 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
For Jake's birthday we went to Leroy's for tacos with some of our Wellington friends. We had a great time with good tacos and beer 🌮🍺
Thanks everyone for coming!
Glow Party
19 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Our hostel organised a Glow Party and we had a great time with all of our hostel friends. We even got our faces painted 🎈
Board Games
21 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☁️ 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 🐉
Mount Victoria II
22 czerwca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Walked up Mount Vic again but this time it was less cloudy which made the views even better.
Hostel Dinners
1 lipca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ 🌧 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 Czytaj więcej
Red Rocks
4 lipca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We treated ourselves to fish and chips and took it to the Red Rocks. Lovely spot for a picnic. We also found googly eyes on a penguin sign 🐧
Mittens
13 lipca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Rugby
18 lipca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ 🌧 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 lipca 2020, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej