Category Archives: New Zealand

Up at 5.30, in fact I was awake at 4, to head off to Auckland to catch flight home. Leigh and Dan very kindly drove me to the airport, some four hours, and we had an extra passenger. Tessa, daughter … Continue reading →

My last morning in Ohakune was rather cloudy. We left around midday for the drive back to Taupo. We decided to drive round the right-hand side of the mountain as that was the brighter side. Leigh said it would be … Continue reading →

Another lovely sunny morning. However I woke to find I had a bed companion, or at least he was on the wall above me. I pointed him out to Leigh and she confirmed that it was indeed an Australian biting … Continue reading →

I hope this posting will reward you for lack of pics yesterday! I am still at Leigh’s apartment in Ohakune. I woke to the cockerel crowing just outside my window and it was wet first thing but dried up a … Continue reading →

A fairly uneventful day today. The day was beset with problems arising from Leigh’s computer which had been back and forth to Noel Leemings for repair. Sorry no photographs today – camera is having a rest and battery is on … Continue reading →

Jessie and Hunter, Leigh’s daughter and granddaughter turned up at 9am. It was the first really hot summer’s day and we just chilled out in the garden where Hunter showed her skills at cartwheeling and we all played a bit … Continue reading →

Leigh and I went shopping in Taupo. The town was full of cyclists for the huge annual event of racing round the Lake, some 186K. The roads near the lakeside were cordoned off for this purpose and parking in town … Continue reading →

Today Leigh and Dan are working at Ruapehu School. I took a walk around the little ski-ing town of Ohakune which was very quiet out of season. I walked up to the school where I arrived in time to catch … Continue reading →

….. the end of the road with the Kiwi Backpackers Bus Experience that is! It was rather an eventful night, or early morning, in our dorm, as one of the young people on our bus, a French girl, had obviously … Continue reading →

Today the Kiwi bus took us back up to Picton to catch the Interislander Ferry back over to Wellington. We followed the coast road round the cliffs alongside the railway which periodically disappeared through tunnels in the rock. By now … Continue reading →