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Date: 12th July 2012
Our Blog
Thank you so much for your comments. Yes, we hope you can also enjoy the beautiful South Is one day. cheers M and A
From Blog: Hanmer Springs to Christchurch
Our Blog
Thank you so much for your comments. Yes, we hope you can also enjoy the beautiful South Is one day. cheers M and A
From Blog: Hanmer Springs to Christchurch
Date: 15th June 2012
Excellent Blog
As promised, I eventually got to reading your blog after you read mine. Your blog is very comprehensive and you have some excellent photos - where did you get the time to write it all. Good luck with any future expeditions and blogs.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Excellent Blog
As promised, I eventually got to reading your blog after you read mine. Your blog is very comprehensive and you have some excellent photos - where did you get the time to write it all. Good luck with any future expeditions and blogs.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Date: 19th June 2012
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Date: 19th June 2012
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Date: 19th June 2012
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
From Blog: ICE WALK... Fox Glacier
Date: 4th June 2012
Hi, Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you find this collection useful. Thanks
From Blog: Nelson to Picton
Hi, Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you find this collection useful. Thanks
From Blog: Nelson to Picton
Date: 15th May 2012
hello........
awesome photo's. thanks for share with us. praveen www.mytravelo.com
From Blog: Gore to Te Anau
hello........
awesome photo's. thanks for share with us. praveen www.mytravelo.com
From Blog: Gore to Te Anau
Date: 30th April 2012
Whoops!! By now you have probably realised the bad weather is moving into the bottom of the south Island and they say the first of the snow is about to fall!! Don't know where you are now, but probably better to be on the move up the West Coast!! Good luck in your Crowded House, really looking forward to catching up soon.
From Blog: Dunedin. Serious catchup
Whoops!! By now you have probably realised the bad weather is moving into the bottom of the south Island and they say the first of the snow is about to fall!! Don't know where you are now, but probably better to be on the move up the West Coast!! Good luck in your Crowded House, really looking forward to catching up soon.
From Blog: Dunedin. Serious catchup
Date: 30th April 2012
You are so right!
Left Te Anau this morning in rain and snow on the mountains by the lake overnite. Driving conditions not too flash until about midday where some blue sky appeared but the drive up from the turnoff to Queenstown had us "Oh ing and Ah ing" at the beautiful snow covered mountains either side. Kept stopping for Mary's photos and made little progress! We are now in Wanaka at the Top 10 and the wind is howling outside............Crowded House is suddenly VERY cosy and warm. Overnite temp is forecast -3C so we might have to snuggle up. On to Fox Glacier tomoro, we have just heard from the tourist info here that it MAY be booked our as Franz Josef is closed due to a glacier slide and is UNSTABLE!!! so everyone has moved down to Fox. Will keep you posted. Wish we had brought some of trhose clothes we left at your place, have been into a few oP Shops to grab some cheap jumpers. See Ya A&M
From Blog: Dunedin. Serious catchup
You are so right!
Left Te Anau this morning in rain and snow on the mountains by the lake overnite. Driving conditions not too flash until about midday where some blue sky appeared but the drive up from the turnoff to Queenstown had us "Oh ing and Ah ing" at the beautiful snow covered mountains either side. Kept stopping for Mary's photos and made little progress! We are now in Wanaka at the Top 10 and the wind is howling outside............Crowded House is suddenly VERY cosy and warm. Overnite temp is forecast -3C so we might have to snuggle up. On to Fox Glacier tomoro, we have just heard from the tourist info here that it MAY be booked our as Franz Josef is closed due to a glacier slide and is UNSTABLE!!! so everyone has moved down to Fox. Will keep you posted. Wish we had brought some of trhose clothes we left at your place, have been into a few oP Shops to grab some cheap jumpers. See Ya A&M
From Blog: Dunedin. Serious catchup
Date: 25th April 2012
So pleased weather is being so kind to you, keep up the good work re blog entries, great seeing it thru your eyes! Hard to imagine such beautiful scenery from what other people tell you, now you reallise why everyone wants to see for themselves! We loved the trip to queens town a couple of years ago but still have lots to see. I think the best way is the way you are doing it, in a camper an. Crowded House or not!!!
From Blog: Lake Tekapo Mt Cook
So pleased weather is being so kind to you, keep up the good work re blog entries, great seeing it thru your eyes! Hard to imagine such beautiful scenery from what other people tell you, now you reallise why everyone wants to see for themselves! We loved the trip to queens town a couple of years ago but still have lots to see. I think the best way is the way you are doing it, in a camper an. Crowded House or not!!!
From Blog: Lake Tekapo Mt Cook
Date: 22nd April 2012
Blog looks great!
Em and Charlottestayed 4 a sleepover last night and allwent well. We took Maya home after a bath around 7.30, although she was keen 2 stay.
Blog looks great!
Em and Charlottestayed 4 a sleepover last night and allwent well. We took Maya home after a bath around 7.30, although she was keen 2 stay.
Date: 24th April 2012
Crowded House news
Thanks Jane, We are having a bit of trouble with our blogging as we are getting lots of 'drop outs' in the middle of our sessions at some of these hotspots and consequently lose everything anbd have to staret aGAIN. all very FRUSTRATING.
Crowded House news
Thanks Jane, We are having a bit of trouble with our blogging as we are getting lots of 'drop outs' in the middle of our sessions at some of these hotspots and consequently lose everything anbd have to staret aGAIN. all very FRUSTRATING.
Date: 17th April 2012
SO great to catch up after 20years! You both looked just the same, whereas poor me has put on "earthquake weight"! Enjoy your journey in the "crowded house" and come back smiling. Look forward to continuing saga.
From Blog: Christchurch
SO great to catch up after 20years! You both looked just the same, whereas poor me has put on "earthquake weight"! Enjoy your journey in the "crowded house" and come back smiling. Look forward to continuing saga.
From Blog: Christchurch
Date: 20th April 2012
Crowded House is right!
At comment last able to respond.....thanks for your comment, it's helped get our blog under way....at Lake Tekapo now, see story on blog. A&M
From Blog: Christchurch
Crowded House is right!
At comment last able to respond.....thanks for your comment, it's helped get our blog under way....at Lake Tekapo now, see story on blog. A&M
From Blog: Christchurch
B&B
Hi do you remember the name of you're accomodation and how can I book it?
From Blog: SALZBURG- AUSTRIA
B&B in Salzburg
Hi Paul, only just saw your question on our old blogsite. We have been absent for a long time and have just decided to re open it as we are off again on another trip. Haven't been reading it for a year! I don't suppose that your question is now relevant (being a year old!) but here goes....... The place is called "Brigit's B&B" but I don't think she has a website. Just a little old lady who rents our a couple of rooms in her house. We got the place off a tourist pamphlet at the Tourist kiosk at the Salzburg railway station when we arrived. Just rang her (haven't got number sorry) and then walked to her place. If this info is still needed I will try to dig up some more info from our old travel diaries. cheers Adrian.
From Blog: SALZBURG- AUSTRIA
Date: 6th January 2011
Fun
You guys are having way too much fun, and good on ya from not so sunny Southern California.
Fun
You guys are having way too much fun, and good on ya from not so sunny Southern California.
Date: 14th April 2012
So long you are not going to believe this...........
Hi Greg & Di, I guess this is like finding one of those old seafaring bottles washed up on the beach! Like a "blast from the past" so to speak! We have just re-opened our old blog as we are now off on a tour of New Zealand and came across your comment. How embarrassing that we never responded but somehow must have missed it. ANYHOW, here we are again so if you are reading this please come along with us for the ride. til then, stay cool you guys Adrian & Mary.
So long you are not going to believe this...........
Hi Greg & Di, I guess this is like finding one of those old seafaring bottles washed up on the beach! Like a "blast from the past" so to speak! We have just re-opened our old blog as we are now off on a tour of New Zealand and came across your comment. How embarrassing that we never responded but somehow must have missed it. ANYHOW, here we are again so if you are reading this please come along with us for the ride. til then, stay cool you guys Adrian & Mary.
Date: 18th November 2006
photos
geez Mary! (because I suppose it is your photos - don't ask me why), you really have some superb photos on your blog.
From Blog: .....and some more W.A. postcards....
photos
geez Mary! (because I suppose it is your photos - don't ask me why), you really have some superb photos on your blog.
From Blog: .....and some more W.A. postcards....
Date: 27th October 2006
Re birthday
Thankyou all for greetings, we are missing you too. See my reply to Jane for update on where we are - holiday is rapidly winding down now. Really looking forward to NOT having a 5.45am wake-up call tomorrow, Trafalgar sure covered a lot of places we would not otherwise have seen but its a breakneck pace. Can sit up in bed here and see Eiffel Tower out the window and it really is a spectacular structure. Looks especially fantastic at night, we didnt go up because queues were too long and we were too tired. Lots love to all xxxx
From Blog: VENICE
Re birthday
Thankyou all for greetings, we are missing you too. See my reply to Jane for update on where we are - holiday is rapidly winding down now. Really looking forward to NOT having a 5.45am wake-up call tomorrow, Trafalgar sure covered a lot of places we would not otherwise have seen but its a breakneck pace. Can sit up in bed here and see Eiffel Tower out the window and it really is a spectacular structure. Looks especially fantastic at night, we didnt go up because queues were too long and we were too tired. Lots love to all xxxx
From Blog: VENICE
Date: 27th October 2006
Memorable birthday
Thanks Jane, yes Adrian did boost the Italian economy with some very nice birthday gifts. Had the wind-up dinner for Trafalgar last night which coincided nicely with birthday celebrations. Great night where we walked down the Spanish Steps to a garden restaurant with 2000+yr old Roman wall along one side of the garden. Lots of rowdy singing and dancing to accompany the dinner and round off the tour on a very happy note. Just got back to our hotel in Paris now (Fri 27/10, 9pm) after walking down to view Eiffel Tower at night and watching cruisers on the Seine. Balmy evening with crowds out picnicking on the lawns under the Tower - and its almost November! Lovely view of the tower out our hotel window too. Look forwrd to seeing the new house. xxx
From Blog: VENICE
Memorable birthday
Thanks Jane, yes Adrian did boost the Italian economy with some very nice birthday gifts. Had the wind-up dinner for Trafalgar last night which coincided nicely with birthday celebrations. Great night where we walked down the Spanish Steps to a garden restaurant with 2000+yr old Roman wall along one side of the garden. Lots of rowdy singing and dancing to accompany the dinner and round off the tour on a very happy note. Just got back to our hotel in Paris now (Fri 27/10, 9pm) after walking down to view Eiffel Tower at night and watching cruisers on the Seine. Balmy evening with crowds out picnicking on the lawns under the Tower - and its almost November! Lovely view of the tower out our hotel window too. Look forwrd to seeing the new house. xxx
From Blog: VENICE
Date: 27th October 2006
Happy Birthday Mary
Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday. Did Adrian buy you a very special Italian Present? (if not theres still time...)
From Blog: VENICE
Happy Birthday Mary
Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday. Did Adrian buy you a very special Italian Present? (if not theres still time...)
From Blog: VENICE
Date: 24th October 2006
Denmark
Must have just missed Jan/Jeff Monday 23rd we left just after 8 am in the morning!
From Blog: Floating Internet.
Denmark
Must have just missed Jan/Jeff Monday 23rd we left just after 8 am in the morning!
From Blog: Floating Internet.
Valerie & John
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Fantastic!!
So enjoyed your blog, lovely photo's, made us want to make the trip as well. One day.
From Blog: Hanmer Springs to Christchurch