Kategorie: NZ

Why didn’t anybody tell me I’m repeating myself? Sorry for the last post, but hey, life goes on as my friend 2Pac would’ve said.So we spent a whole day hanging around in Te Anau doing more or less nothing. Not quite nothing, I was on the phone and on twitter all day trying to sort…

Telephone booth on Stewart Island. Probably uses the tree roots for signal processing and transmission. Hope James Cameron doesn’t get to see this, he might sue for Avatar copyright breach. 😁

The road to Milford Sound: Wonderful sunset at Lake Te Anau: Key Summit in the Clouds:  Lake Howden: And a rock that looks like a Hamster (not a rat!): 🙂 Marian Falls: Tranquil morning at Lake Te Anau, before we’re headed to the other side, to Brod Bay:

I’m a bit behind, as usual. Vacation dementia. The long distance flights were quite relaxing, I managed to binge watch the whole 7th season of Game of Thrones, had tons of food and even caught a short nap or two. Service on both SIA and NZ flights was outstanding, the food was really good, too.…

It’s fascinating that NZ is still stuck in the 80s, musicwise. I’ve been coming here for 14 years now and the music that is played in cafes, restaurants, supermarkets is still exactly the same. It’s like the whole country has just one tape. 🙂 Charming! So, where we at? Our routing was TXL-ARN-SIN-AKL, all business…

Have safely arrived in Auckland last night. And guess what, now Singapore Airlines has managed lose our second bag as well. Wonderful. It never left ARN apparently. We were already suspicious when checking in Monday morning because the agent sent us to the oversize luggage counter. Although it’s a 50L backpack that still fits hand…

So, first leg from TXL to ARN. Easy, right? We had a „SAS Plus“ ticket, what they think is business class 😀 … and arrived in Stockholm on time last night. What didn’t arrive, however, was our bag. It had been left on purpose (!) in TXL because apparently there wasn’t enough room in the…

Singapore was nice, as usual. We returned to stay at the Parkroyal on Pickering hotel, only that I’d managed to get a junior suite this time. I think I’ve raved about this wonderful hotel enough already last May, so I’ll keep it short and simple: perfect. Building, staff, room, food, atmosphere, 10 out of 10,…

Our last two days will be spent, again, in Singapore. Which means food, food, food for me. ☺ On Thursday we drove to Auckland, stopping for ice-cream (surprise, eh?) and a nice lunch at The Farmer’s Cafe (or similar) at Papamoa. Then on to the big smoke, chilling out in the domain in the afternoon…