Tauranga Travel Blogs

Lazing around on the beach in the middle of November was great, I couldn’t help thinking of my Welsh friends freezing their butts during these cold, wet, winter days.  Only a few days earlier I received an email from Jace telling me that the temperature had dropped to -4 C… Jeez louise pep…

Today arrived in beatiful Tauranga. Is quite nice here, love the coastline. To my suprise, the world hydroplane championships will be held just on this weekend. Never saw this things before, so I am quite excited about it. There is also famous Mt. Maunganui which I want to visit either tomorro…

In Tairua I met some really interesting people, again an American who was a "surferboy", another cyclist from America, a Canadian who lives in the middle of London and writes poems and plays and a really strange older American who could not stop making comments about the movie we were watching…

Here are some pictures of my trip to New Zealand. I went to both North and South Island by rental car. Enjoy!!!

It started out good, until Erin and I arrived at the pub. It was NZ$80 for all-you-can-drink. About 8 redbull vodkas later, I was obviously blind drunk. Had an argument with Erin later - I think she dissappeared off with some random guy to go give him a BJ (!) - but had left me all alone in a stran…

Finding Victoria. Many countries across the globe have honoured Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Commonwealth. On my travels I will keep my eye out for various namesakes.

Just a few pics from my homeland. If anyone has any questions about NZ please just email me :-)

Stuart and Deb are driving from Wellington up to Tauranga for Christmas and then set off for two weeks travel up to the tip of the North Island and back again.

(cue Men at Work...) My mom found a fantastic deal on a cruise to Sydney and New Zealand, so we booked it and a month later found ourselves on a massively long flight Down Under...

A few cool photos of NZ, enjoy!

 Dag allemaal,We hebben een fantastisch kerst gehad in Auckland. We logeerden in leuk en gezellig guesthouse (City Garden Lodge) midden in de stad. We waren 2 dagen voor kerst daar aangekomen en spannend was het om alle voorbereidingen mee te maken. Ze hielden een multiculturele buffet voor ke…

An all-girls trip for 14 days to Down Under aboard the Celebrity Millenium! This is the accounting of the fun-filled days of Liz, Mimi, Debra, and Lori ...

Wir sind in Erwartung eines schönen Sonnenaufganges um halb sechs aufgestanden und wieder zurück in den Ort gefahren. Dort haben wir uns am Strand geduscht und anschließend begonnen, unser Gepäck im Auto zu verstauen - groß ist es ja nicht gerade und Stauraum hält sich auch in Grenzen. Nun wa…

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com) I left Dave’s house before he got up but, seeing as how his ability to sleep is the thing I remembered best about him in Europe, it was an extremely fitting way to depart. I was heading up the east coast along Hawke Bay and Poverty Bay…

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