Queenstown Travel Blogs - Page 6

We went up Queenstown Hill by cable car or gondola.  It is the touristy thing to do here.  The view was nice.  The food up here was surprisingly cheap.  I guess you've paid heftily for the ride up ... but that normally doesn't deter businesses which have a captive market to goug…

"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." D.H.Lawrence. My 4 months nomad.

...to Queenstown.  There were many stops along the way before getting to Queenstown.  The first stop is Ashburton.  Over there is the Farmer’s Corner which sells all kinds of touristy souvenirs, but the real attraction is the alpacas in the back.  They are from South Ameri…

(Jan) Today we drove back to Queenstown in find but very blustery weather. We found out later there's been some nasty accidents on South Island as a result of the wind. We saw some lovely rainbows for the first few miles until it became sunnier away from the mountains. We stopped at Kingston as we…

One of my best trips ever, where I met a lot of fun people and made lots of good friends!! And no, not all Germans are anxious to put their towels on the sunbeds first thing in the morning! More Text will follow.... I am not a big writer.....

Heute morgen war doch tatsächlich endlich wieder einmal schönes Wetter. Trotzdem, von Sonnenschein kaum eine Spur, denn die Berge ringsum waren sehr hoch. Also mußten wir ein bisschen warten, bis die ersten Sonnenstrahlen in den Milford Sound vorgedrungen sind. Lange haben wir nicht gewartet und…

Rented bikes and cycled to find a seal colony and got up close and personal with the grumpy fur seals!

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com) As soon as my eyes were open I hurriedly dashed out of bed like a six year old on Christmas morning and ran to the window. But on pulling back the curtains my heart sank - all I could see was a dark grey. Going to the skydiving offi…

a map and some photos of my slightly unplanned trip around the world. The map outlines the general route I took, not counting the backtracking and double visits. Currently I am scanning some photos of this trip, but be patient, there are a lot of them! Argentina - Chile - Easter Island - French Polynesia - New Zealand - Australia - Bali - Hong Kong - Macau - Singapore

Don’t know how they got me a rez during full-on ski season, though going from 100 degrees in El Lay to snow is a special kind of hell (Firefly shoutout). Glad I did though, cuz my room had a huge satellite hookup and I got to see Wozniacki take out Kuznetsova at the US Open. Didn’t I tell ya th…

Welcome to Queenstown. The town famous for its horrendous januari first hangover. As we walked down shotover street at 10:30 this morning we met dozens of people milling the streets in confusion. The pubs have just closed for the night and those out on the streets are either to drunk to find their …

Quick 2 week tour of New Zealand...one of the best places I've ever been!! Really want to go back one day and do it all over again,

South Island Tour.

In November 2006 I travelled to the southern hemisphere to live and work in New Zealand and Australia for twelve months. I was in Australia for about two months, and for the rest of the year I lived in New Zealand. I had the opportunity to travel back across the tasman sea three times for short breaks when I was able to get time off work. It was a really good experience to live on the other side of the world for one year.

My traveling ways continue to give me mad experience points. Although the changes are subtle, the longer I keep this up the more I will grow. This blog is basically my life in 2007.