November 30th, 2017 - Marlborough
With a couple of days in Marlborough before a Park Run and Dina wanting a rest from hiking, I decided to head back towards the infamous…
November 26th, 2017 - Christchurch, Arthur's Pass & Nelson Lakes
As we entered the final couple of weeks of our trip, we had done most of the things that had been at the top of our list. This gave us the…
November 22nd, 2017 - Tekapo and Mount Cook
With 3 weeks left of our journey we left Queenstown in search of bigger things. The road towards Christchurch is famous for giving access to…
November 18th, 2017 - Queenstown
We had heard a lot about Queenstown before going there, mainly that it is touristy, busy, and full of adventure sports. We were a bit…
November 16th, 2017 - Fiordland National Park
After a detour around the south, the weather looked to have improved in the west again so it was time to head back to Fiordland. Another of…
November 10th, 2017 - Catlins Coast
With 10 days rest between multi-day hikes in the South Island's scenic south west, we headed to a part of the country that's more associated…
November 2nd, 2017 - Fiordland
Last week, we finally reached the only item that had been on our agenda for months: the Milford Track. Four days, three nights, 5…
October 27th, 2017 - Doubtful Sound
We’d reached roughly the halfway point our the trip and you may have noticed that we've been a bit thrifty so far. Thanks to the fact that…
October 23rd, 2017 - Wanaka
We left the West Coast and its evil sandflies behind for an impossibly scenic ride to Wanaka, taking nothing with us but memories and some…
October 19th, 2017 - Nelson Lakes and the West Coast
The drive down the South Island's West Coast region seems to be notorious amongst Kiwis for two things. It's one of the country's most…
October 14th, 2017 - Nelson Lakes National Park
The St. Arnaud Range Track, when described to us by the friendly staff at the Nelson Lakes National Park Visitor Centre, sounded too like…
October 12th, 2017 - Marlborough, Nelson and Tasman
‘Oh, you'll love the South’ everyone said in the North. ‘It's so different there, it's like a whole different country’. It was hard to…
October 7th, 2017 - Wellington
Having spent the last four or so years in London, we didn't think navigating the cities of New Zealand would be a problem. But a few weeks…
October 4th, 2017 - Tongariro
We'd detoured around the north island, waiting for a good weather window in Tongariro National Park for a week and it finally looked like we…
September 29th, 2017 - Taupo
At the end of our several hundred kilometre detour around some of the slightly lesser travelled parts of the north island, we found…
September 28th, 2017 - Mount Taranaki
Since we saw a good weather window opening up over Mount Taranaki we decided to pack up, leave the Thirties scenes of Napier behind us and…
September 26th, 2017 - Napier
Our plans to visit Mount Doom had to be put on hold by a storm which, by the size of it and the amount of New Zealand's north island it was…
September 23rd, 2017 - Rotorua
We drove inland to explore the volcanic region around Rotorua, exchanging sea air for something a lot more eggy. The geothermal areas here…
September 20th, 2017 - Coromandel Peninsula
We have left our glamorous life in Auckland behind and are now very much on the road. First project: the Coromandel peninsula a few hours…
September 18th, 2017 - Auckland
‘For sparkling cities you don't have to go to New Zealand’ said our blunt Dutch guidebook. ‘It's not really a city’ said our friends. ‘Rain…