After my second visit to Noosa, one of the main towns on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, I have come to one conclusion. It’s basically impossible to take a photo where it doesn’t look beautiful. I fell in love with Noosa over Christmas, when we celebrated the holidays on the beach with a couple of great backpacker …
Queenstown, Queenstown, Queenstown. What can I say about you that hasn’t already been said a million times? I was always looking forward to this energetic and extreme-loving city, and it was the first place to go onto my itinerary, but I was also concerned that it would be a letdown – touristy, expensive and overhyped. …
Wanaka doesn’t make it onto everyone’s itineraries for New Zealand – but it was one of the first to go onto mine. Blanketed by mountains and set on a scenic clear lake, and with the feel of a small town but heart of something so much more, there’s nothing not to love about this place. …
Mount Sunday has been on my New Zealand list for a while, and for one reason: it’s the site of Edoras, the town of the Rohan people in Lord Of The Rings. So when a couple of German backpackers posted in the New Zealand backpacker Facebook group asking if anyone had any suggestions for going …
After an incredible journey from Wellington, the ferry to Picton taking us through some stunning scenery and the bus traipsing steadily between the mountains and the wild coast, I have to be honest in that we didn’t expect a lot from Christchurch. After all, this is a city still rebuilding itself from tragic earthquakes, and …
I can’t say I’d ever heard much about the ferry journey from Wellington on the north island to Picton on the south island of New Zealand. As far as I was concerned, it was a nice way to get between the two islands, and judging by the map of fjords and forks, perhaps there would …
Wellington would be our final stop on the north island on our New Zealand trip, and we had three main things planned: Of course, there’s a lot more that you could do in Wellington, including more LOTR sightseeing, but these are probably the highlights (for us, anyway!). Here’s everything we got up to in three …
Our tour of New Zealand, unfortunately, was for the most part on a pretty tight budget. And that’s okay – I’m used to being very frugal when it comes to travel, and we are stretching it further by couch surfing instead of staying in hostels, and virtually not eating out at all. And after all, …
Auckland was our first stop of our New Zealand trip, and I have to admit… I didn’t really like it. I can’t help it. I can’t fall in love with every place we visit, but that’s okay. As we flew over the city and came into land, my jaw dropped. I had no idea how …
So I just slipped off the radar for a few weeks there – the reason? I actually got a last minute job working in a country pub in the middle of the, well, country. This meant no internet apart from a little bit of data, and made it nigh on impossible to do any updates …
