The walk up to the summit of Mount Tauhara began pretty straight forward...but we were heading for the higher peak to the right, some 3600 ft above our starting point.
From Welly to Smelly April 26th 2007 I can quite honestly say that after 228 days of travelling we haven't had more than a few that could be described as 'boring' or 'miserable' - but the two days after the Parry clan headed back to Blighty nearly doubled our trips 'bad day' count as we both went cold turkey on family and headed north to New Zealand's capital Wellington (or Welly to its residents).
I don't know if my frame of mind ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more
Remember folks 'Regret what you do, not what you don't' and with that thought we welcome you to our round the world travel blog.
As our journey is now over we hope that some of our stories and adventures may help or inspire anybody else who is lucky enough to be currently in any of the locations we visited or planning to travel in the near future.
Do we regret our trip ? .......... absolutely not it was the best year of both our lives and even though we are now back home and things have already started to fall back into exactly the same places they were before we left...... we will alway... full info