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Abel Tasman National Park was characterised by what seems to be our usual New Zealand weather pattern – grey, possibly a bit rainy and cold in the morning followed by beautiful blueness to finish off the day. Strange, since it looked so nice when we woke. Never mind.
After about an 8 hour drive down the [...]

Gee, I’ve been a bit slack with this haven’t I? I guess we’ve been a little bit too busy really. Since I last posted, we’ve been from Taupo to Tongariro National Park and then down to Wellington where we spent three days. We’ve crossed the Cook Straight on the Interislander and have now arrived in [...]

Tuesday kicked off with an unintentional two hour sleep in. Somehow during the night, my phone had decided that it had returned to Sydney and had adjusted its timezone accordingly. All well and good, except that we are very much still in New Zealand and had intended to be on the road by 9am. Never [...]

It’s a little bit hard to believe we only arrived in Auckland yesterday. What a day that was, though: quick SIM hunting in the city, delicious lunch at murderburger on the way out of town and then a two and a half hour drive to Whitianga.
Auckland seemed quite nice, we were both a bit regretful [...]

While my “One Week to Go!” post kind of shows the places we’re going in NZ,  it doesn’t really have dates. I thought it might be a good idea to post a list of dates for the places we’ll be heading to.
While we’re away, I’ll post some updates and photos and stuff here as we [...]

With just a week to go till we head off, I’m getting pretty excited about our New Zealand trip! Here, I took some pictures of places we’ll be going to off Google Earth. They’re in order of where we’re staying. Click for full size.

I found out some news yesterday! It seems that not only will it be an Aussie Christmas and New Years, but it’s also likely to be an Aussie 2010. Above is a picture of places I am likely to be found next year – note the conspicuous absence of south-east Asia.
I have mixed feelings about [...]

Welp, today I got as official a confirmation as it’s possible to get that I’m going to be in Australia for Christmas and New Years Eve after all. I’m rather looking forward to some beachgoing, some partying and general shenanigans. The downside is that I’m going to be training a class right up until Christmas [...]