I have finally decided not to try and write about all of our adventures… sorry. Anyhow, as you can see in the pictures below, we tackled the Abel Tasman Coastal Track. I could write on and on about all of the natural wonder and beauty that we experienced while hiking on this track, but instead [...]
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After Te Anau we headed to the tourist capital of New Zealand. Well, it is at least the extreme sporting capital. Queenstown is a skiing town where people got bored during the summer and invented a weird and wacky sport by the name of bungee jumping… Yes, it is the ancestral home to bungee and [...]
Its been weeks… so I am going to try and update with a gloss-over approach, and, perhaps, the next time I write, I can actually write about something recent… After our stints in Dunedin and the Catlins, we journeyed to a place call Te Anau… the jumping off point for Milford Sound. Milford sound is [...]
Alright, this is completely out of order… in fact we were in Dunedin before ever visiting the southern ocean etc. Doug Olenic et al. in (from) Boston know a particular Kiwi girl named Rachel who attends to her graduate studies there. Doug was nice enough to introduce us to Rachel over email and she was [...]
-Where we were.- Of course! Well, to tell you the truth, since leaving Dunedin our trip has been quite a whorlwind of adventure and aw… similar to “shock and aw”. We travelled to the southern tip of the east coast. We found ourselves in a place called the Catlins. A few words to describe what [...]
Rugby is clearly the most popular sport in New Zealand. Lowly soccer players are reffered to as “round ballers” and “sissies”… ah, the disrespect. Well, if you can’t beat them, you might as well join them! No, I have not taken up Rugby as a hobby, nor has Shannon (although women play with the same [...]
Christchurch was settled by the English and is the largest city on the south island. Purphaps its not a fair evaluation of Christchurch, or the English who settled there, to say that the weather was purposley designed to make the settlers feel right at home. It was rainy, foggy and downright wonderfully like a beautiful [...]
At last we left you all eagerly awating our next post we were in Bleheim still. It was may 17th… how can we have been so unorganized not to have written since? Well, I am sure you can all understand… Our travels out of Blenheim found us on a train heading down the eastern coast [...]
Onward and soforth…
Published by May 16th, 2005 in New Zealand Travel and New Zealand winemaking. 0 CommentsSome of you might recognize that my previous two postings are now out of order (i.e. “Whitehaven” was my most recent post)… FYI. Shannon and I have spent most of this past weekend celebrating the end of vintage with our coworkers. Friday night was the Whitehaven bash and Saturday was the larger Marlborough vintage party. [...]
and what we have been doing with it… Well, I have a good excuse for not updating the site in a while… Kentucky Derby. As you all know, we spend a lot of money on the internet here in New Zealand. Beside that, we have to deal with arcane computers that don’t work the way [...]