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All good things must come to an end
Blog: round the world - the other way - 13 November 2009
In August 2009 after eleven months on the road we returned to the UK, ending our round the world trip. In that time we visited three continents and eleven countries, from the tiny Cook Islands to the vast provinces of Canada. In the individual countries we visited, we covered a lot of ground seeing both coasts [...]
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Lady in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I arrived in New Zealand on January 2 and Rob and I drove straight from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula. The scenery was spectacular. We saw beautiful coastline, rolling hills, farmland, and lots of small towns along the way. We even got chased down a hill by a gigantic sheep!We stopped in Thames and Coromandel before taking the 309 road, a one-lane gravel shortcut, to Hahei. On the way we came across two adorable hedgehogs and a possum, all of whom I was tempted to bring along with us.
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Photo of the day
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 3 November 2009
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Tokelau: Swordfish, No Ice Cream on Sunday and the Mighty Coconut Crab
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 20 October 2009
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New Zealand, South Island, West Coast – Drip Feed Part 1
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 11 October 2009
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Tokelau, On the Atoll of Atafu: Roasted Pigs
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 7 October 2009
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New Zealand
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 14 September 2009
After a fourteen-hour flight from Santiago, a layover in Auckland, and another short flight to the South Island, we arrived with bleary eyes in Christchurch, New Zealand. We were pretty excited about getting to a place where English is the first language, but we soon realized that Kiwis have their own variety of English; the accent and vocabulary are so different we often found ourselves scratching our heads. It took us a bit of time to figure out not to be insulted when asked if we were planning to "do some tramping" while on the island (meaning hiking).
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A little bit about… Christchurch
Blog: Twenty-Something Travel - 8 September 2009
When I was considering working abroad in New Zealand Christchurch was my first choice of location. Everything I’ve read describes it as an “English City.” I’m a serious Anglophile so I’m curious to see how the English atmosphere translates in this far corner of the world. Here’s what I’ve discovered:
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Trails of the Unexpected
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 September 2009
I stare at the newspaper. It wasn’t me. I gawp at the television. It wasn’t me. I trawl through the internet. It wasn’t me! I listen to the radio, podcasts, and conversations on the bus. It WASN’T me! At least — I hope it wasn’t me? I didn’t know much about Asia before I scribbled [...]
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Norsewood troll stroll
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 31 August 2009
There's nothing quite like pulling off the road into a small town to find awesome kitsch!
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Snapshot of the week: "you've got mail!"
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 29 August 2009
Kiwis don’t like it standard! We were amazed, when driving through New Zealand, to come across such funny and strange letterboxes, definitely not the usual boring mailbox we are used overseas.
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Top 10 New Zealand North Island’s unforgettable sights
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 25 August 2009
Although we didn’t manage to fit all things we want to see in the North Island of New Zealand, like for example the art deco city of Napier, the Waitomo cave or the Waikaremoana lake, after having drove bottom to top through this island over 3000km I think we got enough to put together our top 10, so here we go:
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Snapshot of the week: with no boundary
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 20 August 2009
Cape Reinga Lighthouse – Far North New Zealand
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Discovering New Zealand North Island
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 14 August 2009
Everybody seem to rave about how beautiful is the South Island of New Zealand, which surly we can’t argue with it, but we wanted to give it a chance also to the North Island so we spared 2 weeks to travel from “Welly” up to Cape Reinga before flying out from Auckland.
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Akaroa – New Zealand’s Only French Settlement
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 13 August 2009
The charming township of Akaroa sits at the edge of a pleasing harbor inside the eroded crater of a gigantic, extinct volcano. Akaroa is located an hour and a half drive southeast of Christchurch on Banks Peninsula, the South Island’s most impressive volcanic feature. The peninsula has two prevailing craters which form Lyttelton and Akaroa harbors. As the only French settlement in New Zealand, the town is elegant, full of character and worth a visit. The best way to explore Akaroa is on foot. We started at the information center, located ...
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Returning to New Zealand
Blog: Trail of Ants - 13 August 2009
It was close to midnight as the pilot mumbled that we were about to descend. I looked around the cabin, a gallery of oval frames. In a dozen of them, I glanced the burning embers of Wellington. Street lamps flowed in channels off the rumpled hills that shepherd the city to the southern coast [...]
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Snapshot of the week: the giant marbles
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 5 August 2009
The Moeraki Boulders, Hampden Beach south of Oamaru – New Zealand South Island
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A Haphazard Birthday
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 August 2009
Heart thumping. Eyes sweating. Palms clenched. Girlfriend weeping. People staring. Lady smiling. Jaw gripped. Foot shuffling. Mind racing. We were checking in one hour before our scheduled departure, and the lady at the check-in desk was telling us we weren’t getting on the flight. Lady smiling. Palms clenched. We’d run the gauntlet up until now, phone [...]
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Gouraud: The Street and the General
Blog: Half - 28 July 2009
If you tell a taxi to take you to the Beirut neighborhood of Gemmazeh, they’ll drop you at the start of the Rue Gouraud – the main bar, restaurant and club packed street running through this noisy neighborhood, which somehow manages to be grungy and upscale chic at the same time. I love it! You [...]
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Hooked up! The top 10 places to fish in New Zealand
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 28 July 2009
I never like fishing, I found it the most boring sports ever, waiting for hours and hours before something happen, and always wonder why Chris like it so much even though we often ended up at the fish counter in the store. But that was before we came to the angler’s paradise called New Zealand.
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Flight of the Cockheads
Blog: Trail of Ants - 21 July 2009
Have you ever pre-applied for a visa while on the road? If so, you’ll know they always say “don’t make travel plans until your visa is confirmed”. As always, when I was recently applying for New Zealand’s 23-month working holiday visa, I respectably scoffed at the small print. Six weeks to secure a working holiday [...]
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New Zealander campers’ nuts
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 21 July 2009
We know that NZ is famous for its rugged and diverse great landscape and what would be the ideal way to experience it at its best? Easy answer: camping of course.
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Our top 10 of the Kiwi’s South Island
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 17 July 2009
1. get a closer look to the giant rivers of solid blue ice of the dramatic glacial valleys of Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers. The weird thing is that we didn’t have to climb high, they are just easily accessible at the foot of the mountains flowing straight into temperate rainforest (300m above sea level) and only 5km each from their town’s centre, just few steps away and we were right in the middle of this iced world brrrrr;
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Is it just me or is the road moving?
Blog: AdventureSkope - the ramblings of Scott Kennedy - 15 July 2009
it shook so hard.... just kidding
