At Leeston
15–17 сент. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 11 °C
Stayed at Rosemary and Andrews. Rosemary cooked a beautiful dinner and her and Andrew took us to dunstandel where apparently the "best" cheese scones are found.(and they were) Also saw a plane thatsЧитать далее
Rakaia huts/Weedons
17–20 сент. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Went to Rakaia huts but because of rain there was a likelihood of the river floodind so we didnt want to take any chances and we decided not to stay and went back weedons
Kaiapoi NZMCA #7443
20–26 сент. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Stayed for 7 days. Great spot. Dog park and beautiful fields behind park. Supermarket (New World) basically across road. Township easy walking distance with great cafes and bars. We both got haicutsЧитать далее
Weedons NZMCA #7561
27 сент.–1 окт. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
The great thing about this camp is that it has s laundry and we were abke to get all our laundry done. Relaxing few days
FC Timaru Patiti Point
1–2 окт. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Beautiful FC overlooking the bay in Timaru. Toilets in park behind and bus easily able to park. Lovely walkway along leading from harbour to park
Warrington Domain
2–4 окт. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Parked at northern end but wind was really bad. Kath moved to southern end and it was as if wed mover to a completely different area. Was calm and peaceful. A lovely spot. Noone on beach. A lovelyЧитать далее
Palmerston
2 октября 2023 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Windy drive to Warrington with winds gusting 80-90km. Stopped in Palmetston for lunch but it was too windy we stayed in the bus to eat. The town has a board out front showing it was a thrivingЧитать далее
NZMCA Ashburton
9–11 дек. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Stayed 2 nights. Park ok but beside a dirt road lots of noise from people going up and down to river
Weedons NZMCA Christchurch
11–16 дек. 2023, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Stopped for a few days to do hospital appt, do laundry, visit Akaroa
Stuff article
12 декабря 2023 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Akaroa with Brent
15 декабря 2023 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Brent our nephew took us for the day out to Akaroa and a vineyard at french pass
Petsitting - Ashburton
2–22 янв. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Petsitting 'Freddy' the cat in Tinwald Ashburton
Diary purchase 🤣
9 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Excursion into Ashburton. Crossing bridge we saw this bird nesting area. Carried on to warehouse stationery to get a "real" diary to keep track of our days as we're needing to keep someЧитать далее
Backing Camera not working
11 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Had to make a stop in at Newlands Auto electrical to get our "reasonably" new bluetooth camera looked at. I say reasonably because it was new when we started out a couple if years ago 🤣. It justЧитать далее
ПутешественникDarn its out of warranty so well have to get a new one. Oh well technology has moved on so well get a newer one hopefully with better definition. The old one was pretty good definition though. Theyre getting one in so itll be in next week.🙏😊
Marking time in Tinwald
19 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Were marking time before leaving on our next leg. The weathets been so hot all weve been doing is blobbing out. We got so hot yesterday we ran the hose and got cooled down under it. We even put SofiaЧитать далее
Saying goodbye to Freddie
22 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Leaving Ashburton and saying goodbye to our lovely charge Freddy the cat
Kaiapoi NZMCA #7443
22–25 янв. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Arrived and just managed to find a spot. This is the fullest Ive seen it here and there were motorhomes behind us coming thru the gate. Went over for a coffee with Allen and Dianne who were on theirЧитать далее
Sofias Haircut
23 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
Sofia had her "big girl" haircut today. The weather's been so hot lately weve had to cover her in wet towels and flannels to keep her cool the poor wee thing
Beachfront Kaikoura
26 января 2024 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
Went to Pier hotel for a seafood platter and a walk along the beachfront
At the dog park
27–28 янв. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Drove from Kaikoura to Renwick. Stopping the night at the Renwick Dog Park. Great for Sofia as she can run in the off leash area and there's even a paddling pool for the little dogs. Of course SofiaЧитать далее
Canvastown
29 янв.–1 февр. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Heading for Nelson to do some petsitting but dont really want to try and find FC's in the city so we stopped at canvastown to wait out the time before we go. Its only 40mins to Nelson fromЧитать далее
Petsitting Nelson
31 янв.–11 февр. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Looking after Sabi. She such a lovely 'puppy". Full of energy. Her and Sofia are getting on like a house on fire
Bus reorientation
11–12 февр. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We stayed at a FC on the outskirts of Nelson to reorient ouselves with 'Red'. Weve been house/petsitting for rhe last 11 days and had dragged stuff inside so had to put things back in place. Such aЧитать далее
NZMCA National Rally in Reefton
22–26 февр. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Nation Rally in Reefton. Wall to wall motorhomes. Thank goodness we have a Red bus. Well we've done it once. Not sure wed do it again but its a tick off the bucket list ✔️🤭😂🤣
A Rest after the Rally.
26–28 февр. 2024, Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a lunch stop at the Lewis Pass Summit we went on to Balmoral reserve. Birds chirping. Trees all around. Drinking water taps everywhere. So peaceful. Weve decided to stay a couple of nights 🌙