Like I said in my last post: after hiking comes wine tasting. This time in New Zealand’s most famous wine region, the Marlborough region. Since it is so large, we decided to take two days, with some whale watching in between. Since we first had to drive from […]
One of the destinations that immediately caught my eye with my Austrian ancestry, was the Franz Josef Glacier, named after Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph (whoever made that awful spelling mistake?!) who was of course married to Elisabeth or better known as Sisi. But on our way over there […]
After our Lord of the Rings adventures from the day before, we finally arrived in the Queenstown area. Queenstown itself is quite a large city and busy both in the winter and the summer. In winter it is a ski paradise and during the summer it is the […]
Before leaving Te Anau for Queenstown, I wanted to explore Lake Te Anau. So, we started off with a 11km walk from our motel to the Control Gates. They actually regulate water flows between lakes Te Anau and Manapouri for the West Arm hydroelectric power station. The walk […]
The next destination is one that is on all the New Zealand to do lists I have seen so far: Milford Sound. This is where the New Zealand Fiords live. Actually, Milford Sound is a part of the Fiordland National Park that lies on the other side (so […]
We awoke after a good night’s rest in our castle. Although I must come clean now: we were not actually staying as much in the castle, as in the transformed former stables. Which meant that we had our complimentary breakfast next to mr. Horse, who was still wearing […]
After walking for almost 20km to the foot of Mount Cook / Aoraki yesterday, we did nothing the rest of the day. Which meant that we still had one walk to do the following day: to the Tasman Lake. Although the weather was the opposite of the day […]
It has been a little over a week since we crossed the Tasmanian Sea and flew from Cairns to Christchurch, New Zealand. Since then we have seen many, many mountains, huge and beautiful lakes, Lord of the Rings locations and stayed at the only castle in New Zealand. […]
About our last Australian adventure, before flying over to New Zealand. When we arrived in Cairns, we were actually relieved. Not so much because of the driving, but because of the weather. I remember planning our trip over here back in Perth and back then the prognoses were […]
After our adventure yesterday, January 4th was a quiet day. In the morning we packed our bags again and headed towards Townsville. Not for any particular reason, other than breaking our trip to Cairns. We expected a small beach town, but were quite surprised by Townsville’s size. Our […]
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