After a long day in Auckland, I arrived at the airport at 3:30 in the morning. I was really really tired and I fell asleep right after I entered my seat. I didn’t even notice we were taking off. I slept throughout the whole flight and somewhere early in the morning I arrived in Melbourne. There I had to clear through customs and then I had to catch my domestic...
Soooo.. After 5 fabulous weeks in New Zealand it’s time for me to move on again. Tomorrow morning my airplane departures from Auckland to Adelaide. It has been a wonderful time around here in New Zealand. I’ve done heaps of stuff here, more than I had ever imagined in the first place. Eventhough I wouldn’t mind spending some more time around here...
After arriving in Auckland I headed basicly straight to the gym. I hadn’t worked out for quite a while and I felt I really had to work out. I went together with an english guy I met in the bus. I had a good workout and I felt a lot better afterwards. As I hadn’t heard lots of good things about Auckland, I decided to stay there not too long. I decided to...
Soooo… It has been a while since I’ve had some time to write something in my blog again. The last couple of days have been an absolute blast. Lots of things have been happening eversince I left Wellington. Firstly I found a dutch food shop along the way where I bought some truly dutch products. Cocktail worstjes, Vlokken and stroopwafels. Anyways.. After some...
After leaving Queenstown a few days ago, I’ve been traveling quite a bit. I traveled from Queenstown back to Christchurch. As I had already been in Christchurch I decided to move right on to the next town Kaikoura. There I met some english folks with who I shared a room with. Kaikoura means in the maori language “to eat crayfish” so we thought it...
Because I needed to relax for a bit we decided to rent some movies and watch those for a change in the hostel. We had a very easy and relaxing night which was nice for a change. But, knowing myself.. after all this relaxing I needed something to do again. Two guys I met earlier in Nelson were telling me they were going to do some riversurfing. I decided to join them...
After all the adrenaline of last week I was really looking forward to some days to relaxation. Just doing nothing at all for a change. The day after the bungyjumping I went on a daytrip to the Milford Sound. This is an area south of Queenstown where some parts of the Lord of the Rings movies were shot. It contained some very nice scenic views, just check the pictures...
The last couple of days were full of adrenaline for me! After the glacier walking, which was already quite some extreme hiking, we went on to Lake Wanaka. As I wrote in my last diary item, we had too much wind to do it that afternoon. BUT I did do the skydiving in the morning. I had to get up at 6AM and I was at the skydive center at about 7. There we watched a small...
Yesterday we went to the big Glacier in Franz Josef. Too bad the weather didn’t really work out for us.. It had been great weather for the last 10 days, but exactly the day we went the weatherforecasts expected rain. Not too weird, considering the glacier is in a rainforest, but still.. Early in the morning we went with a bus to the glacier and after putting on...
Well.. It has been a while since I wrote something down here in my blog.. Everything is great out here. After arriving in Nelson the other day, I’ve been toning it down a bit considering the excursions. I’ve been to the gym and to the beach in Nelson and have been partying there some nights as well. I also walked to the center of New Zealand, which was a...