Coping with public and private transport since 2001
When in Rome, act like the romans. Or so they say. And so we did. With this part of the country being considered to be perfect for taking a walk, it should be foolish of us not going for said walk. There are quite a few tracks out here, of which Routeburn, Greenstone and Caples are the most well known.
Continue readingGeraldine has been nice to us! A lovely breakfast with muesli and pancakes, together with sunshine and blue skies: one could easily forget we are firmly off course. Yet we are still. We needed to cover about 400kms today to get to Glenorchy, instead of the 160 it would have been if we slept in Wanaka where we should have
Continue readingOK, first things first. I am not where I should be right now, but we are fine. We should be in Wanaka, in a motel over there and should also have been spending the afternoon walking alongside the shores of magnificent Lake Wanaka. Instead, we spent the afternoon, and much of the rest of the day, driving like madmen to
Continue readingYay, more rain! It might sound a little boring, but there it is. Consecutive day of rain número 10 has started, and we do not like it. Also, the people at Fox Glacier Guiding don’t like this amount of rain and have cancelled all tours which are going onto the glacier itself. Instead, they are offering a walk to the
Continue readingAgain a rainy start of the day here in Punakaiki: we woke up to the thunderous sound of the rain falling in these rainforest like surroundings. Bummer. Happy new year by the way! These warm holidays are messing our feeling for time up. Christmas was weird, and now New Years is also a little off. As we are going to
Continue readingWhat a lovely surprise this morning: we woke up to a blue sky with a few white clouds in it and the temperature was still a lovely 20 degrees. After a wonderful breakfast, this time with eggs on toast with some smoked salmon on the side, we decided to warm up a little more and lie on the breach for
Continue readingWell, the forecast for today was pretty much bang on: rain. There are basically two ways of getting into Abel Tasman NP: on foot, or by boat. We chose for the latter, as the full Abel Tasman Coastal Track will take about 3 days to complete. And with the current weather, that amount of time outside is just intolerable. We
Continue readingYet again, we wake up to cloudy skies and near torrential rain. The forecast says it will be better after Tuesday, but seeing it is Sunday today, that will take a while. Today we’ll have to travel a few hours to Abel Tasman National Park, and as we won’t be outside much, the rain is of lesser importance. If would
Continue readingAfter a full night of rain we had hoped it would clear during the day, but unfortunately it did not. Luckily, the wind died down quite a bit, as it had caused for a full on stop of the whale watching boats yesterday. None had sailed. Today though, everything was going out, and we were to be on the 07:15
Continue readingAls we took one of the earlier ferries across the Cook Strait, the alarms on our phones went off a little too early in the day for comfort. Barely past 6 in the morning, we made breakfast on our room and started to pack our stuff into the car. By 06:30 we checked out and made our way to the
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