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Singapore and New Zealand

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Début du voyage
16 janvier 2019
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dimanche 13 janvier 2019 à 18:00
⛅ 8 °C
Altitude: 47 m
Angleterre Holmes Chapel 53.209068, -2.37386853°12’33” N 2°22’26” W
Trip overview
13 janvier 2019, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Here’s the flying route. 12 hours to Singapore, then another 10 or so to Christchurch.

Staying in Singapore for 3 nights, then going on a road trip around the South Island to fill in the gaps that were left when we were on our cruise in January 2017

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lundi 14 janvier 2019 à 09:00
⛅ 6 °C
Altitude: 82 m
Angleterre Manchester Airport 53.36396, -2.27976453°21’50” N 2°16’47” W
At Manchester Airport and en route
14 janvier 2019, Angleterre ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Here’s the aircraft. Just arrived from Houston.

Half way to Singapore (6 hours in), we crossed Afghanistan.
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mardi 15 janvier 2019 à 16:00
⛅ 32 °C
Altitude: 18 m
Singapour Tanjong Pagar Terminal 1.270409, 103.8581651°16’13” N 103°51’29” E
Singapore, day 1
15 janvier 2019, Singapour ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Safely arrived, and able to check into our room early.

On the 19th floor, we overlook Raffles Boulevard and one of the “straights” on the F1 circuit.

Walked in the hot, steamy weather, to the Marina Bay Sands hotel, had a drink from the observation deck, then walked back via the Merlion

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Jour 1
mercredi 16 janvier 2019
⛅ 31 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Singapour Symphony Lake 1.320101, 103.8155521°19’12” N 103°48’56” E
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Singapore touring
16 janvier 2019, Singapour ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Open top bus tour, to Botanic Gardens, then around the various “towns”.

Catching the first leg, made a mistake and crossed Raffles Boulevard (well, ran across!). Didn’t think of the overpass (part of the Marina Square Mall).

Afternoon Tea in the Mall, then by the pool and over to see the Flyer, parts of the F1 track. Had dinner with the locals.En savoir plus
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Voyageur In the Botanical Gardens - Orchid section
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Voyageur Rain Forest - the original, preserved after Singapore was established
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Voyageur Afternoon tea
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Jour 2
jeudi 17 janvier 2019
🌧 30 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Singapour East Lagoon 1.267769, 103.8463591°16’4” N 103°50’47” E
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Singapore - a thundery day
17 janvier 2019, Singapour ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
Not much time by the pool until the thunder started.

Went for a walk to the Gardens by the Bay - in the Cloud House (we saw two waterfalls - one artificial on the inside and one real: another thunderstorm on the outside)En savoir plus
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Voyageur In the Flower House at Gardens on the Bay
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Voyageur F1 geeky stuff - the actual kerb where the track come out from under the grandstand
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Voyageur Cloud House - mists at 4pm
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Jour 3
vendredi 18 janvier 2019
⛅ 26 °C
Altitude: 16 m
Singapour Queen Elizabeth Walk 1.294702, 103.8546421°17’41” N 103°51’17” E
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Singapore Sling
18 janvier 2019, Singapour ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Raffles Hotel is closed, but the Long Bar is still open. One Singapore Sling is enough!

Taxi to Changi for the flight to NZ. Fabulous, efficient airport, but weird policy about water on board. There are vending machines and refill points right next to the security and the gate, but you have to empty your bottle!En savoir plus
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Voyageur Butterflies at Changi
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Jour 4
samedi 19 janvier 2019
⛅ 20 °C
Altitude: 10 m
Nouvelle-Zélande South Hagley Park -43.525701, 172.61087743°31’33” S 172°36’39” E
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Christchurch - being rebuilt
19 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Arrived at 1015 (a very bumpy crossing over South Australia and the Tasman Sea) after a 9 hour flight.

Straight to the gondola, while the weather was good, then walked across Hagley Park to see how the rebuilding is going on after the 2010 and 11 earthquakes. Some things a lot better (Restart Mall has gone) and some not.

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Voyageur At the top of the gondola, overlooking Lyttleton Harbour and Banks Peninsula
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Voyageur Botanical Gardens
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Jour 5
dimanche 20 janvier 2019
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 20 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Sumner Bay -43.564696, 172.75439743°33’53” S 172°45’16” E
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At the beach - Sumner
20 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Lovely beach suburb of Christchurch: so popular (on a Sunday) that we had to queue for a place for coffees.
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Only just picked up FindPenguins Been following on What’s App x
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Voyageur Same all over the world
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Voyageur Our hotel
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Jour 6
lundi 21 janvier 2019 à 11:00
☁️ 21 °C
Altitude: 27 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Christchurch International Airport -43.488599, 172.54712943°29’19” S 172°32’50” E
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Experiencing the Antarctic
21 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
At the International Antarctic Centre, experience storms (luckily they provided jackets to cover our tee shirts and shorts!), 4D film (we got sprayed a few times), penguins, exhibits and huskies
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Voyageur Ready for the storm - Minus 8 plus 40 km/h winds - cold!!
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Jour 6
lundi 21 janvier 2019 à 13:30
⛅ 22 °C
Altitude: 57 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Islington -43.536859, 172.49000843°32’13” S 172°29’24” E
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Golf in New Zealand
21 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
We said we’d play and we found this course at Templeton with a good deal and a nice welcome.

Quite close to the flight path to the airport, so good for looking up!
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VoyageurSome wonderful experiences up to now. How was the golf??
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Hi surprising not bad, considering we were using hired clubs! Fabulous to play in warm dry conditions- not busy either! Hope you had a great time in Spain. Did you catch up with Marie & John? Xx
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Voyageur Templeton Golf Club
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Jour 7
mardi 22 janvier 2019 à 17:00
🌬 19 °C
Altitude: 741 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Lake Tekapo -44.004284, 170.47397744°0’15” S 170°28’26” E
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Christchurch to Lake Tekapo
22 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
Goodbye Christchurch. Nice city, hope you continue to rebuild.

We took the Inland Scenic Route, eventually to Geraldine, then Lake Tekapo. Temperatures up to 30C on the way (unseasonally warm), with a strong wind. Now we know the reason for leylandii - they make fabulous wind breaks - we saw miles and miles of them, protecting the fields from the winds.

At Tekapo, we went to the top of Mt John where there’s a “night sky” observatory; the clouds have built so there’s no chance of that tonight, but the daytime views were fabulous - just had to keep steady because of the howling winds!En savoir plus
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Voyageur This was at Raikai Gorge. The photo co-ordinates said "wind whistle" - they weren't joking!
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Voyageur Descending to Raikai gorge on the Raikai river. Another "wow" reason to stop and snap
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Voyageur Lake Tekapo from Mt Ford - Panorama
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Jour 7
mardi 22 janvier 2019 à 18:30
🌬 16 °C
Altitude: 1 027 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Mount John -43.985789, 170.46527243°59’9” S 170°27’55” E
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Mount Ford observatory
22 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Hard to stand still in the winds for these photos
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Voyageur Lake Takepo - blue from glacial debris
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Voyageur From Mt Ford observatory
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Stunning!
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Jour 8
mercredi 23 janvier 2019 à 14:16
🌧 21 °C
Altitude: 13 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Moeraki Beach -45.348267, 170.82644745°20’54” S 170°49’35” E
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A day of weather and scenery contrasts
23 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
From Lake Tekapo, we took the slightly longer route to Dunedin, hoping to get a clearer view of Mount Cook ... but the change in the weather got in the way of that.

As we reached the coast at Omarau, the temperature had dropped from 28 to 18, and by the time we got to the Moeraki Boulders, it was raining. Then the rain got harder and the temperature dropped to 7, by the time we got to Dunedin.

We looked up Baldwin Street (has the Guinness World Record for the steepest street), before heading up steep and winding narrow roads to our stay at Larnach Castle.

Then, the sun came out...En savoir plus
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Voyageur Maori cave paintings
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Jour 9
jeudi 24 janvier 2019 à 17:37
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 14 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Te Rauone Beach -45.784573, 170.72476245°47’4” S 170°43’29” E
Celebrity Solstice, Golf, Solstice again
24 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Ring...ring... WhatsApp video call from Matthew, Tate and the girls brought us to wakefulness, and just in time to see our favourite cruise ship, the Celebrity Solstice sail into Port Chalmers, opposite us.

Golf at St Clair, on the cliff-tops, we were almost blown away.

In to Dunedin centre from shop window shopping and the iconic railway station, before Pauline decided she didn’t want to go down the coast road again (it IS a bit scary from the passenger seat), so we went back up the windy roads to the hotel.

Andrew went off to the Albatross centre, and saw plenty of seagulls, before camping out to see Celebrity Solstice sail out - and give two blasts on its horn.En savoir plus
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Jour 10
vendredi 25 janvier 2019 à 10:58
⛅ 12 °C
Altitude: 279 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Peggys Hill -45.875787, 170.62298745°52’33” S 170°37’23” E
Larnach Castle and Dunedin's twisty hill
25 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
We got to look around the Castle before we left, and saw the dining room who would have eaten in if we’d stayed .... and if we’d had better information. We did give our feedback!

Dunedin is an incredibly hilly place - we almost got used to twists and turns. On the street signs, when there was a yellow triangle, it meant “caution”: they weren’t joking in many cases!En savoir plus
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Jour 10
vendredi 25 janvier 2019 à 17:29
⛅ 17 °C
Altitude: 311 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Queenstown -45.033036, 168.65928745°1’59” S 168°39’33” E
Queenstown via he Clutha Valley
25 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Almost running out of superlatives with the scenery - miles and miles of breathtaking views.

Then, “the adventure capital of the world”, Queenstown. Our hotel is an easy (though downhill walk) to the centre. A couple of beers on Perky’s Floating Bar Bar were nice after the long drive.En savoir plus
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Jour 11
samedi 26 janvier 2019 à 10:51
🌧 12 °C
Altitude: 368 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Stone Creek -44.871983, 168.40089444°52’19” S 168°24’3” E
Glenorchy and Lord of the Rings country
26 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Drove up the side of the lake at its head at Glenorchy and then on to the gravel surface to explore more: we turned around after a mile or so (this is what the whole route was like until the 1990s).

Back to Queenstown then up to 2500 ft on the gondola.

Another couple of “happy hour” beers in a bar that ended up with a few more, as we got chatting to a delightful Australian couple who were here to revisit the place where they’d met 53 years ago.En savoir plus
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Jour 12
dimanche 27 janvier 2019 à 11:18
☀️ 21 °C
Altitude: 407 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Bush Creek -44.938503, 168.83238344°56’19” S 168°49’57” E
Milford Sound no-flight and Arrowtown
27 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We were due to fly to Milford Sound today, but, although the weather here was fine, just 45 miles away, the cloud was low enough to prevent an entry. We had already postponed from yesterday, so we called it a day. We’ll probably drive there when we are in Te Anau in a few days.

This gave us the opportunity to visit Arrowtown, kept as much as possible like the mining town it started as...

... and we bumped into Margot and Norm again! They’d been to look for the place we’re they’d met, but it’s been demolished.En savoir plus
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Jour 13
lundi 28 janvier 2019 à 13:15
⛅ 19 °C
Altitude: 209 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Te Anau -45.41125, 167.72891245°24’41” S 167°43’44” E
Golf at Te Anau
28 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Today, we drove from Queenstown to Te Anau, first stop was at the golf club, for 18 holes. A sad place - only 3 players today (and we were two of them), yet such a nice course and club.

Checked out our “antipode”, being as this is the furthest south we get (sort of - there was Mossburn, on the way, where we stopped for coffee.En savoir plus
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Jour 14
mardi 29 janvier 2019 à 20:52
⛅ 17 °C
Altitude: 263 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Milford Sound -44.654072, 167.90278644°39’15” S 167°54’10” E
Milford Sound, at last!
29 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
On the 2 hour trek the Sound, we passed a point that was literally 13 miles from Glenorchy (where we were the other day).

Climbing and climbing, wondering when we’d pass on to the west coast, and at 3000’, there was the entrance to the Homer Tunnel - only one lane and less than a mile long, it leads directly to the head of the valley down to the Sound.

Keas (an aggressive / cheeky type of parrot) climes all over the cars looking for food, as we waited our turn for the tunnel.

Milford Sound is as spectacular as we imagined. We even got to the Tasman Sea (and its dwells), before heading back in and getting a “glacial facial”En savoir plus
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Jour 15
mercredi 30 janvier 2019 à 16:23
⛅ 28 °C
Altitude: 272 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Roys Bay -44.696049, 169.13198944°41’46” S 169°7’55” E
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Perhaps the longest drive so far
30 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
All the way from Te Anau to Wanaka, we avoided the Cardrona shortcut (the roads looked a bit scary), but we did get to see bungy jumping
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Jour 16
jeudi 31 janvier 2019 à 13:14
⛅ 27 °C
Altitude: 325 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Wanaka -44.70272, 169.13957244°42’10” S 169°8’22” E
Golf and Toy / Transport museum
31 janvier 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Wanaka Golf Club has 1,100 members, so we were glad we got a chance to play, with fabulous views over the Lake.

After playing, we visited the National Transport and Toy Museum at the airport. Fantastic! Even had a Ford Anglia, early model Escorts and Cortinas, plus many of the toys we remember from childhood.

Over 31C today, we finished off with an outside jacuzzi.En savoir plus
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Jour 17
vendredi 1 février 2019 à 13:15
🌧 13 °C
Altitude: 21 m
Nouvelle-Zélande Filleul Creek -43.70703, 169.4700343°42’25” S 169°28’12” E
To the west coast
1 février 2019, Nouvelle-Zélande ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
A journey of real contrasts: from pouring rain as we set out, no views because of low cloud, more Rain as we cross the divide at Hass Pass, waterfalls, then breezy sunshine along the coast.

The west coast seems to be a rain forest, but of course, it’s got the glacial valleys, so there were many ups, downs, twists and turns over the last miles to Franz Joseph.

We lost count of “one lane bridges”, but we were never held up.En savoir plus
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Fin du voyage
5 février 2019