Great Barrier Island
First stop, GBI. Again! 🙂 Barrier Air seems to have upgraded to bigger planes during the pandemic, but still two wonderful scenic flights … we basically got off the 787-9 and right onto the 10-seater prop. GBI was fantastic, just like three years ago … and there is real-fruit ice cream here now! Unfortunately, there’s…
Traveling again!
Wtf? Wtf! Finally, after three years hiatus, we were supposed to be on the way to NZ again. This time with extra buffer, because greedy airlines are so fucked-up. Turns out, the airlines were not the problem this time. The plan was to take the train to Paris on Friday morning, enjoy a nice Friday…
Women’s Rugby World Cup Final
Congrats to the Black Ferns and kudos to both teams – what a match! Spectacular. Wish the men’s game was at the same level. One more thing – England have a hooker named Cokayne. That’s funny. 🙂 🙂 🙂
GBI forever
Below some more pictures from GBI, our new favourite spot in NZ. Well, so says the Reisebegleitung at least, I still rate Ohope a bit higher because there is real fruit ice cream in Whakatane, but not on GBI. 😀 Medlands Beach is simply the best, but the other views are not too bad, either.
Ulysses
Things kinda got out of hand, no reliable internet for more than a week. So I’m giving up on chronological order here, switching to pure stream of consciousness. Call me James.Fuck yeah, we did some nice hiking this time. The track I’ve posted earlier, the loop track around Punakaiki, is not even an „official“ track,…
Island time
Paradise exists. We’ve found it. Great Barrier Island, in the Hauraki gulf at Auckland’s doorstep. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Fantasmogoric. We’re staying at the lovely Medland’s Beach Lodge, which is right on Medland’s Beach. Ocean views from the bed, beautiful sunrises. And perfect wave after perfect wave on a flat, sandy, lonely, safe beach. Doesn’t get…
Komoot not cooperating
I just saw that the Komoot embeds are not working, so here’s another try. Paparoa NO Croesus Track (partly): Paparoa NP/Punakaiki Loop: Nelson Lakes hikes:
Greymouth, Pt Elizabeth
St. Arnaud was really good to us, I must say. Wonderful region, and the town itself is undeveloped in a nice way. Just one word of warning: Stay away, stay the fuck away, from „Dine Hard“. The worst food I’ve ever seen. Disgusting. The Alpine Lodge, on the other hand, much better food.Or take the…
Nelson Lakes National Park
After a nice lunch in Nelson a short drive up into the mountains to St. Arnaud. Finally. We’d had this on our list for years now and something always came up. Well, not something, but the weather, to be precise. There was always weeks of rain and storms up in Nelson Lakes NP when we…
NZ, again
Boring. Went to New Zealand again. Had fun. Nuff said.You’ve read it all before, haven’t you?BUT, and yes, it’s a capital letter but, some things are slightly different this time. First, we booked the same international flight, SIA C from ARN via DME/SIN to AKL, but we did not fly SAS from TXL to ARN.…