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Travel Blog Posts
July 23rd 2008
This was an awesome trip. I have never done cross country before, and in fact I've only been on skis (of the snow variety) one time years and years ago. But how hard can it be right? You get to go forwards, feet move independently of each other, little danger of crossing your skis (mostly because they don't have an edge so you can't direct them at all!), all in all much like walking. Sort of. Which I'm good at. Also having experience on water skis and even snowboard and wakeboard seemed to help a lot, just for intuition for how to move your feet, and for foot-eye coordination. And the extreme bending of the knees way more than you'd think you need to, which is definitely something you only learn sliding on some surface and ... read more
Humpridge Track, Tuatapere
Published: May 22nd 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Invercargill
Five Passes
Published: June 5th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Mount Aspiring National Park
ABC cave adventure (Silver Peaks Scenic Reserve)
Published: April 17th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin
April 12th 2008
This little weekend getaway is an excellent trip to... get away! Without going too far. Silverpeaks is a 40min drive from Dunedin central, so it definitely wins on the petrol/travel-time front. It also has some amazing views, and although from surprisingly much of the track you can see Mosgiel... and 4WD tracks... you still feel like you're in relative wilderness. Which is probably also helped by the fact that you're carrying your temporary home on your back. So Saturday morning dawned bright and shiny, and I drove down to Hitomi's to help her pack for her first tramp ever. She'd really gone to town on all the goodies she could eat because she'd be tramping it all off - so I had to try and convince her to leave half of it behind, as I don't ... read more
Rees-Dart tramp: my new favourite tramp ever
Published: February 18th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Mount Aspiring National Park
February 10th 2008
Well, feeling a little nervous, jac and I embarked on this 'moderately demanding' 5 day tramp. Nervous because not only was it my longest and hardest tramp to date (average 6-8 hour days), it was also my first summer tramp, and me and heat and exercise dont normally have a particularly jolly time together. (Please note, there are three pages of photos, little blue boxes at bottom/top of page) Day 1 dawns: On a little trepidation So we set out, the shuttle drove us past the set of the new Xmen movie thats being filmed in Glenorchy at the moment, or was when we were there, and dropped us off at the road-end. Actually not quite the road end, just some arbitrary point where the road didnt end. And we set off. It was a beautiful ... read more
June 21st 2007
So it was an uneventful drive to Te Anau, picked up jac from the airport, continued meandering south to te anau, gorgeous sunny weather, started at lunchtime so the ice on the roads was luckily all melted, awesome. We turned up at the walker bach (jac's husband's family's) with plenty of light to spare, walked the '500 Jenny-steps' down to the DOC office to check the weather, which was a little scary, and settled in for the night. The forecast for the next day was for a cloudy/showery cold day, with snow in the afternoon, and then lots of snow and rain and gale force winds and COLD for the day after. Considering we only had a short-ish day up to Luxmore hut (less than 5 hours from the start of the track), and considering ... read more
May 15th 2007
Well, settled back into old dunners again. Its not so bad as I thought actually. I found an awesome flat, with the most amaaaaazing view, which is only 5 minutes drive from town (plus park-finding time of course ugh! damn the bus for being so expensive I have to take my car!). Considering the places I've been, thats pretty darn close! Kinda funny though, in Dunedin its a bit in the wops, people ask me 'why are you living way out theeeeere?!' PhD is slowly getting momentum. For those of you who understand or care for the semi-specifics of what I'm actually studying, i'm looking at liver regeneration in the mouse after partial hepatectomy (chop out 70% of the liver and sew him up again), and the involvement of complement, the toll-like receptor 4 pathway, ... read more
April 9th 2007
Well, china just goes to the head of my favourite countries visited, it is very much an experience here, something different, something great, something puzzling, something to try to adjust to, something to change how you live your life - it has everything! Shanghai is a massive city, i think about 30 million (hold, how many people in nz???), and answers the question 'what do you get when you make a gigantic sprawling mass of humanity and squeeze it into a relatively small space?' (relative to nz of course). Its this big, sprawling, spottily stinky, spottily very beautiful, spottily very dirty, spottily very slummy, and a few places very VERY expensive and upmarket. Its awesome, you can see guys making noodles on the side of the road, its unbeleivable how many roadside food stalls there ... read more
March 31st 2007
Well, if its even possible I think Prague is more beautiful than Budapest. Its possibly even the most beautiful city I have ever been to. Its pretty touristy though, the old town is overrun by people and souvenir markets and food stalls. I think that has a lot to do with it being Easter though, and theres some kind of festival on, with music playing on a stage in the old town square. Kind of expensive after the places Ive been - the beer is only about the same as what I have been paying, which I was kinda surprised about, seeing as its supposed to be the cheapest beer in Europe. Admittedly though I havent ventured far outside the main tourist area as much as usual, because theres just so many cool bars around, ... read more
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