Wellington Travel Blogs - Page 8

“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.

the tararua rangers are a wonderful place if your in to tramping/hikeing  its great in winter or summer with the ever chaning landscape you will be impressed there are many entrys to the range as it strechs in the middle of the lower north island  and has many huts and shelters to st…

On Thursday we made our way to Wellington a bit more directly, found ourselves somewhere to stay and headed into the centre. We went on the "Cable Car", which I got really excited about until I realised it was not a cable car but a funicular railway - still good though all my train spotting friends…

We had a pretty straightforward drive down to Wellington from Napier, stopping-off in "one horse towns" that even had seen the horse leave because nothing was going-on anywhere!  Still, the people (as everywhere else in New Zealand) where very friendly and welcoming and the cafes are superb!&n…

You know, I'd forgotten just how much fun it is to plan for a trip.  Granted, the trips I've planned prior to this have been for groups of people, not just me.  But I'm sure I'll manage. I've still got roughly 4 and a half months to go and as usual, I'm leaving buying my plane tickets to…

As part of my gap year after graduating, Jen and I will be travelling to USA, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Thailand!

Summary: 4 weeks 5 countries 12 flights / 60hrs 'in the air' 2 ferries 3 car hire and many more ;) I and a friend of mine went on a trip to Australia and New Zealand. On the way to New Zealand we stopped for a few days in Tokyo, Japan. On our way back to good all Europe we stopped in Hong Kong and Macau.

We arrived into Wellington on friday at around 4pm and hunted for accomodation, frustratingly, for over an hour. Finally we bit the bullet and split up, Mam and Al in a guest house and me, Em and Ad in the YHA, all a stone's throw from things. Ad and I took the hostel up on the offer of $5 fush and…

Headed back to Wellington for the second time. Had to go across on that really long boring ferry that takes forever as it has to go very slowly through Mussel farming area, had a little nap on the boat. Arrived at wellington for the second time and my cold had got worse and Alex was also ill. This …

mumma picked me up from wellington and then after a coffee and catch up with Luci it was back to the big old P N. go to see my lisa and mikki and dean on the first day and then spent the next week and a bit catching up with the palmy peeps, had a very fun night out at good old highflyers …

Crazy times on the kiwi experience bus in the most beautiful countries in the world. The people are lovely and the reggae music there is great.Did all the things I never taught id do: travelled on my own, climbed a glaicer, had a helicopter ride & did a bungy jump!!! Fav town: Queenstown Fav Island: South Island GO THERE!!!

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.