Blogs from Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 10

Heyho, es ist an der Zeit, dass ich mich mal wieder melde. Der Ein oder Andere hat es schon mitbekommen, manch einer liest es eventuell zum ersten Mal. Ich bin wieder am anderen Ende der Welt und befinde mich wieder in Neuseeland. Nachdem ich meinen Bachelor nun erfolgreich abgeschlossen habe bin ich zurück nach Neuseeland geflogen. Angekommen bin ich in Auckland und nach einer Nacht, die ich bei einem Kumpel verbringen konnte, bin ich auf die Südinsel nach Blenheim geflogen. Am folgenden Tag bin ich mit einem Shuttle von Blenheim nach St Arnaud gefahren. Hier habe ich nach elf Monaten Skype und Texten endlich wieder Rebecca in meinen Armen halten können. Die Hälfte meines Gepäcks ist bei Will in Auckland untergebracht, der Rest besteht aus Wanderequipment welches in meinem Rucksack verstaut ist. Der Grund hierfür ist ... read more

Weeeeeeee have arrived in HEAVEN !! Oh my, the scenery and the accommodation. I'm speechless. I will start with the scenery, absolutely breathtaking, I now have so many photos of what is around us, the light keeps changing so I take another. Every time I look out at the mountains, they change, the colour, the way they look and even the atmosphere. We had an enjoyable car ride to Queenstown, took about 5 hours on Highway 1 and 8, with a lunch stop in Alexandra which was lovely. We stopped off at another place called Arrowtown and had a look around, it was an old gold town in the 1800's, we passed so many winery's, so tempting to go in but had to get to our destination, anyway all along the way, beautiful amazing scenery, probably ... read more

Friday 6/2/15 Queenstown First trip of the day was the gondola, quite a steep walk to even get to the station but what a view on the way up and from the top. Decided against the luge or bungy jumps but did see a couple of people doing that. Just madness! Lots of people taking their bikes up in the gondola and cycling back down, we could have walked I guess, but enjoyed the ride down instead. Managed successfully to miss the sheep race in the town centre, seemed popular though and there were other less messy events going on in the town, music in one of the parks at least. After lunch and a wander we went for a sail on the steamer TSS Earnslaw ... read more

After a fair break from travel, it was time to get out and explore again – this time in one of my own country’s highlights, Queenstown. I hadn’t been to Queenstown in almost 20 years so I was pretty excited to get down there and explore somewhere for the first time as an adult. The initial reason for going down was not everyone’s idea of fun but I had signed up for the inaugural Queenstown marathon. With the marathon on Saturday morning, I flew out Friday morning and arrived to picturesque Queenstown. After checking into my accommodation I went to explore the town and managed to resist the temptation of Ferg Burger (for now - after the marathon would be a different story). I grabbed my pack and relaxed before meeting up with some other running ... read more

Next day we drove back from Manapouri to Queenstown, first time dad had driven for 3 days due to 'man flu'! Queenstown is really pretty but much busier than anywhere else we've been- actual parking restrictions here which was a bit of a shock. When we arrived in Queenstown we headed to the Gondola and Freya spent the journey up the mountain side describing the possible ways we would die, it was incredibly high. When we reached the top we caught the chair lift up to the luge platform, and drove around the course. Dad overtaking us all and then laughing the whole time. Abby managed to ignore 5 signs to brake and slow down, nearly killing the lady trying to collect the luge buggies! Mum spent the whole time imagining this in snow and planning ... read more