Morning all.
We're in Nelson, just got in last night after a long drive up from Fox Glacier. Nelson seemed like a nice city as we drove in last night, should be fun to explore a little.
We're then making our way back to the North Island and vaguely back up to Auckland then we need to sell the car and maybe take a little trip out somewhere on a bus or something.
We went up Fox glacier a couple of days ago, that was really cool they gave us spikes for our shoes so we could walk around on the ice without slipping over too often.
Happy Birthday Tim!
Well I'll be on my merry way.
see you all soon.
15.4.07
9.4.07
New photos
Got some new photo albums up, go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/joni.one.eye
We're in Te Anau at the moment just having breakfast and we're going up Queenstown later and all the way up the west coast through the glaciers and stuff.
See you soon
And Happy Birthday Luke for a few days ago now.
We're in Te Anau at the moment just having breakfast and we're going up Queenstown later and all the way up the west coast through the glaciers and stuff.
See you soon
And Happy Birthday Luke for a few days ago now.
5.4.07
Well, we made it to the bottom
I write to you from an Internet cafe in Invercargill. It seems to be about the only thing open here as it's good friday, even the pubs shut! It's quite a well priced Internet cafe thankfully, probably be here a little while with 2 and a half GB of photos to move to the external hard drive.
Yesturday we hit slope point which is the southern most tip of mainland NZ, it was a nice enough place, full of sheep just like NZ should be, with a little sign to the equator and the south pole. We had intended to get from Dunedin to Invercargill in one day but with the darkness closing in and the quality of the roads shoddy to say the least, we thought it was best just staying in the backpackers at slope point, which turned out to be a really nice place to stay.
This morning we made an early start and got into Invercargill and Bluff which is basically the southern most point again. Not quite as far south as Slope point but it's where the main road going from the top of NZ to the bottom finally ends - or begins as the locals would have you think!
Invercargill itself is pretty dull to be honest but they had a good enough museum where we spent the afternoon watching a film about an old Kiwi guy called Burt Munro who had a fast Motorbike. It was a really nice film actually think it was called the worlds fastest indian or something.
The night before we headed down here we spent near Dunedin on the Otago peninsula, sleeping in a 1979 Bedford of all things that was attatched to a backpackers out there. The peninsula was nice, it has the only mainland Albatross colony in the world, unfortunately they over charge a little so we had to skip that. They also have lots of penguins, not that we saw any - too many people around I should think and it was really dark. Really pretty area though and we visited the castle, which was quite an unexpected landmark in NZ.
We did get to see some penguins though, we vistited a colony in Oamaru where we watched loads of blue penguins going home for the night after a hard days fishing. Then on the way from Dunedin to Invercargill we stopped at Curio bay where there's a fossilised forest on the beach, you can see all the stumps and logs and stuff, we met a yellow-eyed penguin just wandering across the beach. Apparantly yellow-eyed ones are pretty rare so that was cool.
I forget when it was I last posted here... ... wow that was ages ago back over on the North Island. Well since then we've worked our way down the eastern edge of the south island, stopping in at various places along the way. Christchurch was a cool city just so very english, all the street names were places from the UK we stayed on Dublin street and found Nottingham street a little way out of the city. It had alot going for it as a city, I really liked it, loads of art and a good social scene in the evening. We went out to a little bar in the city one night where we sat outside and watched a pretty good cover band play and watch a rugby game projected on to the wall behind at the same time, in typical kiwi fashion more attention was paid to the rugby than the band even by the band.
We went over to Mt. Cook/Aoraki and stayed in a little campsite on the northern shores of lake pukaki where they had trampolines! So we had a nice long go on the trampolines both during the day, loking at the beautiful blue lake and towering snow-capped mountains, and at night looking at the stars and silhouettes of the mountains. We also took a nice walk through the mountains over rope bridges and stuff looking at the glaciers and mountains, the scenery there was seriously stunning, as with most the trip there's plenty of photos but to be honest they don't really capture how cool the landscapes are. Most the time you feel it's not worth taking a photo because you just can't capture it well enough.
Anyway, it's all going well and the cars ticking over well enough. It even passed it's Wof, sort of. In fact Fiona managed to drive it up the steepest street in the world yesturday, so it can't be doing that bad.
Fiona's wandered off to see if she can find us a pub to go sit in for a bit, you'll be surprised to hear she's decided she likes beer after visiting the Speight's brewery. Lol she's just come back dissapointed as everywhere's closed. Got some sweets instead though Yay!
Speak to you all soon
Joni
PS I'm going to try and put a few photos they will be fairly randomly selected and unedited but if I manage to get any up before eunning out of time they will be here
Yesturday we hit slope point which is the southern most tip of mainland NZ, it was a nice enough place, full of sheep just like NZ should be, with a little sign to the equator and the south pole. We had intended to get from Dunedin to Invercargill in one day but with the darkness closing in and the quality of the roads shoddy to say the least, we thought it was best just staying in the backpackers at slope point, which turned out to be a really nice place to stay.
This morning we made an early start and got into Invercargill and Bluff which is basically the southern most point again. Not quite as far south as Slope point but it's where the main road going from the top of NZ to the bottom finally ends - or begins as the locals would have you think!
Invercargill itself is pretty dull to be honest but they had a good enough museum where we spent the afternoon watching a film about an old Kiwi guy called Burt Munro who had a fast Motorbike. It was a really nice film actually think it was called the worlds fastest indian or something.
The night before we headed down here we spent near Dunedin on the Otago peninsula, sleeping in a 1979 Bedford of all things that was attatched to a backpackers out there. The peninsula was nice, it has the only mainland Albatross colony in the world, unfortunately they over charge a little so we had to skip that. They also have lots of penguins, not that we saw any - too many people around I should think and it was really dark. Really pretty area though and we visited the castle, which was quite an unexpected landmark in NZ.
We did get to see some penguins though, we vistited a colony in Oamaru where we watched loads of blue penguins going home for the night after a hard days fishing. Then on the way from Dunedin to Invercargill we stopped at Curio bay where there's a fossilised forest on the beach, you can see all the stumps and logs and stuff, we met a yellow-eyed penguin just wandering across the beach. Apparantly yellow-eyed ones are pretty rare so that was cool.
I forget when it was I last posted here... ... wow that was ages ago back over on the North Island. Well since then we've worked our way down the eastern edge of the south island, stopping in at various places along the way. Christchurch was a cool city just so very english, all the street names were places from the UK we stayed on Dublin street and found Nottingham street a little way out of the city. It had alot going for it as a city, I really liked it, loads of art and a good social scene in the evening. We went out to a little bar in the city one night where we sat outside and watched a pretty good cover band play and watch a rugby game projected on to the wall behind at the same time, in typical kiwi fashion more attention was paid to the rugby than the band even by the band.
We went over to Mt. Cook/Aoraki and stayed in a little campsite on the northern shores of lake pukaki where they had trampolines! So we had a nice long go on the trampolines both during the day, loking at the beautiful blue lake and towering snow-capped mountains, and at night looking at the stars and silhouettes of the mountains. We also took a nice walk through the mountains over rope bridges and stuff looking at the glaciers and mountains, the scenery there was seriously stunning, as with most the trip there's plenty of photos but to be honest they don't really capture how cool the landscapes are. Most the time you feel it's not worth taking a photo because you just can't capture it well enough.
Anyway, it's all going well and the cars ticking over well enough. It even passed it's Wof, sort of. In fact Fiona managed to drive it up the steepest street in the world yesturday, so it can't be doing that bad.
Fiona's wandered off to see if she can find us a pub to go sit in for a bit, you'll be surprised to hear she's decided she likes beer after visiting the Speight's brewery. Lol she's just come back dissapointed as everywhere's closed. Got some sweets instead though Yay!
Speak to you all soon
Joni
PS I'm going to try and put a few photos they will be fairly randomly selected and unedited but if I manage to get any up before eunning out of time they will be here
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25.3.07
Moana Lodge
Only got 20 mins before my money runs out so I'll be brief.
Staying in a place called Moana Lodge in Pilmerton or somewhere its right near Wellington.
Really nice place, quite how it calls itself a backpackers I'm not sure, it's REALLY nice.
Anyway the last few days have been spent travelling down from Auckland stopping all along the way. Rotorua and Napier being the main stops. Seen and done some awesome things of which I'll get some photos up if I manage to get to a place with free internet. I'll try to put up one or two now but if time runs out then you're going to have to wait because I'm not putting another two bucks in, rather take a walk on the beach and look at all the stars.
Tomorrow we're going to explore Wellington a bit then spend another night here then we'll get across to the South Island and see what is to be seen there.
Staying in a place called Moana Lodge in Pilmerton or somewhere its right near Wellington.
Really nice place, quite how it calls itself a backpackers I'm not sure, it's REALLY nice.
Anyway the last few days have been spent travelling down from Auckland stopping all along the way. Rotorua and Napier being the main stops. Seen and done some awesome things of which I'll get some photos up if I manage to get to a place with free internet. I'll try to put up one or two now but if time runs out then you're going to have to wait because I'm not putting another two bucks in, rather take a walk on the beach and look at all the stars.
Tomorrow we're going to explore Wellington a bit then spend another night here then we'll get across to the South Island and see what is to be seen there.
Oooh it put up a picture, this is a Variable oyster catcher in some bird park we went to. The lines around the edge is the wires of the cage and litterally moments after taking this shot it whacked my camera with its big long beak, surprising amount of force it had too, although not enough to break the camera luckily. that'll teach me to take pictures so close to birds with long beaks.
Times up now so byes, feel free to comment or send me email, noone seems to be doing much of that :(
19.3.07
New photos
Got some photos up of the trip north.
You can read about it in greater detail on Fiona's blog where shes made a rather long entry about it.
Go here and you should be able to view all the piccies
http://picasaweb.google.com/joni.one.eye
You can read about it in greater detail on Fiona's blog where shes made a rather long entry about it.
Go here and you should be able to view all the piccies
http://picasaweb.google.com/joni.one.eye
2.3.07
update time!
Been a while since I've posted. Haven't done since I was in the UK in fact, whoops!
So I thought I'd try and get a fairly big post up now with lots of photos and a quick run through what we've been up to, although I'm not one for storytelling so may be best to look to Fionas for a riveting read.
First up, Singapore. Singapore was lovely disturbingly clean, terrible food, awesomely hot but really nice. Best thing to do is right click on the pictures and open in new window, I thought most people would be able to manage on there own but Fiona insisted I need to guide you all through.
Once we finally got to New Zealand the first few days were spent at Sally's house recovering from jetlag and generally relaxing.
Finally bought a car managed to get this lovely Subaru including insurance for $1550 thats about 550 pounds. Notice the damage to the front right hand indicator that Fiona managed to do as we left straight after buying it. The albums just one photo atm but we're going to go clean it tomorrow so then I'll put some more in - it's currently filthy.
So I thought I'd try and get a fairly big post up now with lots of photos and a quick run through what we've been up to, although I'm not one for storytelling so may be best to look to Fionas for a riveting read.
First up, Singapore. Singapore was lovely disturbingly clean, terrible food, awesomely hot but really nice. Best thing to do is right click on the pictures and open in new window, I thought most people would be able to manage on there own but Fiona insisted I need to guide you all through.
Once we finally got to New Zealand the first few days were spent at Sally's house recovering from jetlag and generally relaxing.
After a few days at Sally's we took a trip to Great Barrier Island, which is a half hour journey on a tiny little plane. It was a beautiful little Island very, very remote - no electricity etc. Really quiet and the few people you do see are absolutely insane. It was a really nice though as you can see it's a beutiful island.
Few more days round Auckland so we've been looking for cars and took a trip to the sky tower.
Finally bought a car managed to get this lovely Subaru including insurance for $1550 thats about 550 pounds. Notice the damage to the front right hand indicator that Fiona managed to do as we left straight after buying it. The albums just one photo atm but we're going to go clean it tomorrow so then I'll put some more in - it's currently filthy.
10.2.07
Cause I'm leaving on a jetplane, I dont know when I'll be back again, Oh babe I hate to go, I'm levaing on a jetplane, leaving on a jetplane
Huzzah!!
A blog devoted to me, just what the world needed. Don't worry though I don't intend to fill it with self-indulgent spam, there's a good reason for it's existence.
I felt the need for such a blog to be created due to my imminent departure to New Zealand along with my travelling companion who's blog can be seen here.
In just ten days time we'll both be sat on a plane somewhere over Italy. That may sound nice but we'll only be a sixth of the way into our journey and about to commit acts of extreme violence to the screaming baby on the row in front of us.
Plenty to do in the 10 days I'v got left in the motherland though. Most notably is my gig on the 15th (thats thursday) at the old angel in hockley, it'll be my last gig with Ten Days Later, so obviously attendance is compulsory and it'll be a fantastic night. Also theres my party next saturday the 17th so come on over to mine bring beer or whatever and feel free to crash the night.
Toodles
A blog devoted to me, just what the world needed. Don't worry though I don't intend to fill it with self-indulgent spam, there's a good reason for it's existence.
I felt the need for such a blog to be created due to my imminent departure to New Zealand along with my travelling companion who's blog can be seen here.
In just ten days time we'll both be sat on a plane somewhere over Italy. That may sound nice but we'll only be a sixth of the way into our journey and about to commit acts of extreme violence to the screaming baby on the row in front of us.
Plenty to do in the 10 days I'v got left in the motherland though. Most notably is my gig on the 15th (thats thursday) at the old angel in hockley, it'll be my last gig with Ten Days Later, so obviously attendance is compulsory and it'll be a fantastic night. Also theres my party next saturday the 17th so come on over to mine bring beer or whatever and feel free to crash the night.
Toodles
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