Trujillo Travel Blogs

7th January 2007 We got checked out of Aspen House and drove the hire car back to Auckland Airport - all very straight forward!  Just like our flight no hitches flew straight into Wellington got the public airport shuttle which dropped us about a block away from our hostel.  We stayed …

On the way to Wellington, we stopped to take close up pictures of Mount Doom from lord of the rings, which is incredible and looks like no other mountain I've ever seen.  So Frodo didn't destroy it.  We had planned to go out that night in Wellington but we were put off by the weather…

First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you!! As I wrote in my last journal, I intended to stay in Picton for a month to work in a backpackers. Well, it didn't work out quite well and I decided to go back to Nelson the same day I arrived in Picton..... I was in a real mess and didn't know what I w…

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.....

Well did the touristy thing again this morning, took a trip to the Botanical Gardens with Gemma who had been in Methven at the same time as me, completely pointless, wrong time of year, winter!!! then did a trip on the Tram which goes round the city centre past most of the highlights and lastly a w…

This trip manifests a cursory approach to seeing and doing all those crazy and out-of-the-way things that any child dreams up. I hope your inner child enjoys my spontaneous, and perhaps reckless, approach to global circumnavigation.

Today we discovered why Wellington is known as a windy city... but more on that later.This morning at 11:00, the three of us met my colleauge, Beverley Cathcart and her husband, Robin, on the steps of New Zealand's Parliament in downtown Wellington.  Beverley is the Executive Director for Prot…

Got up early again and it was still very wet. We had to be in town for 8.30am to catch the bus to Wellington. We thought it was going to be a long walk with our packs but when we checked out we discovered that there was a free shuttle bus into town!! Bonus!! This was to be a long day on the bus…

Welcome to our Road trip 2005 Travelogue!We're leaving Wellington first thing in the morning on Christmas Eve to drive up to Mount Maunganui.You can click and drag on the map to the left to follow our route.

London > Tokyo > Singapore > Sydney > Christchurch/Auckland > Nadi > Rarotonga > LA/Boston > London

Hi folks, I am dead tired tonight - I feel as if I've done almost every touristy thing there is to do in Wellington.  I felt obligated to fit it all in my one full day I have here.  It was so nice to just do my own thing, by myself at my pace. I did however have an amazing sleep and wok…

Left Taupo earlyish adn drove down to Wellington. A really long drive but really scenic as drove around the lake which was nice. In Wellington in time for a nice curry out before bed. The next day we went to the te Papa, New Zealand museum. They had a Lord of the Rings exhibition on and even thoug…

My adopted home. The land of the long white cloud. Awesome. Great people, lifestyle, scenary, weather. //11 years