New Zealand
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Day 517 – 524 – TBC
We are in the process of organising some website storage and hope to have these final posts with you shortly! Thanks for your patience ????
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Day 516 – Racing around
We get the novelty of a lie in today – sadly, though, we don’t get to enjoy it too much as the lift in the hotel seems to always be on the move, which we can hear from our room Around 10 am, we get ourselves ready, sort a room change and get to the…
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Day 515 – Gliding to the glacier
It’s a 7 am start today as we have an early morning activity Dave had a brief encounter with a flying cockroach-thing which he “dealt with” last night… However, we find it’s not there when we check in the morning and Dave apparently heard a lot of nibbling last night – it seems we had…
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Day 514 – Chauffeuring to (Mount) Cook
All four of us are up, packed and ready for the road by 9:30 am – we drive into town and park up close to New Regent Street for some breakfast Two variations of smashed avocado on toast, eggs benedict with salmon as well as a ham, onion & cheese toastie We get on the…
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Day 513 – Christchurch Clan
Annoyingly, our motel was all booked up by a large group of bikers and they woke up around 7 am this morning to get going early waking the whole motel up Nevermind – we actually have to get going around 8 am anyways! We ready ourselves with a quick bit of toast for breakfast in…
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Day 512 – Hot pools of Hanmer
We’re up, out and heading to grab some supplies from New World, get a coffee from Pedro’s Gelato & Coffee as well as refueling before getting on the road About half way of the drive, we have a break at Waiau to grab a coffee, from Brenda’s on Lyndon, and make some chicken sandwiches while…
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Day 511 – Knocking about Kaikōura
Woken a little earlier than anticipated today as the volunteer fire siren went off around 8:30 am – at least it wasn’t earlier! We bum about the apartment for most of the morning completing breakfast, admin and chores before preparing ourselves to head out It’s a little drive through town and then we’re on the…
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Day 510 – Survival of the fittest
Definitely waking up feeling rough today ???? An obligatory McDonald’s to get us up and going before we head out of Blenheim The drive is about 1.75 hours to our destination today but there’s a hefty amount of traffic around the Taimate area which adds an extra hour to our journey… We get to enjoy…
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Day 509 – Wine & Food fest
A leisurely wake up and coffee before readying ourselves and wandering through the Saturday car boot sale in a carpark to the local New World We grab a coffee here before getting to the bus stop put up here for today The bus takes us around the town picking up others and along the vineyard…
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Day 508 – Coastal cruising
We’re up and out today and pop to our usual breakfast spot on New Regent Street, Belle (cafe & micro roastery) After some toasties and caffeine, we get to the Kilmore Street bus stop to take the 29 to the airport From here, we get a ride in a courtesy shuttle to EZU Car Rental…