The founder of lonely planet calls Aitutaki “the worlds most beautiful island” . He isn’t wrong. At first we were put off by the cost of an Aitutaki day trip, but after meeting two different sets of people who said it was a must do trip we bit the bullet and booked with Air Rarotonga. … More Aitutaki – We found paradise
We took off from Auckland at 4:20pm on Saturday 30th January. After a 3.5 hour flight we landed in Rarotonga at 8:50pm on Friday January 29th. We are time travellers… Although read on to find out why John preferred January 30th better the first time around. Your first greeting after landing in The Cook Islands … More Rarotonga – First few days on The Cook Islands
Our first few nights post camper were spent in Whitianga. It felt strange to be sleeping in a proper bed, have space to spread out our things and not have to cook off a camping stove. The day we arrived in Whitianga it was glorious sunshine, everyone was at the beach enjoying the evening sun … More Cathedral Cove, hot water beach and Piha
It took us around 4.5 hours to reach our intended campsite for Milford Sound. We stayed at cascade creek, which is a department of conservation campsite (DOC for short). The majority of these have a fee of $6pp but can go as high as $10. Most have pretty basic facilities, some have cold showers and … More Milford Sound
We woke to the sound of planes and helicopters flying overhead. As I removed my eye mask I could see blue skies, no wind, and I knew we were on. We stayed at luggate cricket club camping site, which was about 2km away from Wanaka Airport, so we didn’t have to get up too early … More Skydiving in Wanaka
After a night of torrential downpours and howling winds, we awoke to blue sky’s and sunshine after our night at the base of Mt Cook. The journey back towards twizel and onwards to Cromwell was a pleasant one, as we had lake Pukaki on our left hand side, glowing a brilliant blue in the … More Mt Cook, Cromwell & Clyde
Serena William’s as she is now known, had a hard first test, with a 320km journey to our first destination of Lake Tekapo. We weren’t sure where to head first but after some advice and googling, we opted for the lake as its views were meant to be stunning. The drive was down lots of … More Lake Tekapo, lake Pukaki and Mt Cook
We were supposed to fly to Christchurch at midnight on January 3rd. Whilst checking in the assistant mentioned they were looking for people to offload from the flight due to poor weather conditions and restrictions put in place on the plane. After listing all the free things would receive (a free night in a hotel, … More Christchurch, New Zealand
Unsure about where to celebrate New Years, the receptionist at our hotel said the riverside would be a good place. We had a few drinks in our hotel (a bottle of $4 wine, which is around £2… It wasn’t so bad with lemonade!) and headed out around 10pm to the Yarra River. We walked … More NYE in Melbourne
We flew from Sydney to melbourne, as the cost of flying and getting the greyhound was the same, however the greyhound takes 10 hours and flying take 1.5. We landed to cooler weather than Sydney, and took the skybus to the southern cross train station. The cost was $18 per person and you can purchase … More Melbourne
