Land | Food | Nature | People
I’m currently esconsed in Wanaka, a very pleasant and relaxed little town towards the West Coast, after spending about two hours in Queenstown, which was definitely not my kind of place. More soon on Doubtful Sound and recent goings-on.
After I picked up the van from Christchurch about a week and a half ago now, I drove out to Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula, a small town with a Maori name but French street names, something I never quite got to the bottom of. Akaroa set the tone for the standard New Zealand tourist …
I whinged about the price of Internet access in the last post as many places in New Zealand have coin-operated Internet PCs, which demand you pump in another two dollars every ten minutes or so. It’s like playing some greedy arcade game, even more frustrating when I take hours on end carefully uploading and captioning …
Internet access in New Zealand a rip off. Have 57 seconds left. Aaargh. Will post soon, still alive, New Zealand beautiful, driving a van, cooking on gas. Kisses, N.
OK, so we hardly saw any dingos on Fraser Island, just two skulking about when we ate a picnic on the first day and one on the beach, but I liked the title, and there were a lot of English people around. The four-wheel drive camping safari to Fraser Island was the highlight of my …
I’ve written this in an Australian accent mate, so that’s the best way to read it. Strayans have some weird words, mate. More than two syllables gets a bit tricky, so fair dinkum, many words that would take too long to say get boiled down to two syllables, sorry, syllies, usually ending in ‘o’ or …
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