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June 15th 2008

Published: June 15th 2008

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Bren and Linda

Another miscellaneous collection of photographs of our visit to New Zealand.

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Brendan and Linda Hegarty

Bren and Linda

Hi. My name is Brendan, my wife is Linda and we are both Irish, currently living in Dublin. My wife and I have always envied those young people who had the opportunity to travel after leaving school, collage etc. We ourselves went straight from school into the work place. We always told ourselves that we would make up for this by travelling after our retirements, if we made it that far. But we often asked ourselves why the pleasures of travel should only apply to the young or the old. What about us in betweens, yep thats right, the middle aged. Both of us were in the fortuna... full info

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Mount Ruapehu

Approach road to ski resort, which was closed. Another few weeks and they had several feet of snow.

Mount Ruapehu

Hard shoulders are for wimps. In NZ its a sheer drop on one side and volcanic rocks on the other.

Mount Ruapehu

The interior courtyard of the hostel we stayed in.

Port Jackson

Major hold up on road.

New Zealand Road

Typical New Zealand minor road, i.e. track. We often travelled for miles on such roads, which are essentially narrow, gravel roads.

Country Code.

Linda preparing to close gate to track.

Free Range.

Not sure whether these pigs were wild or domesticated but they were certainly free range.

Auckland

Brendan on hotel balcony.

Wellington

Museum exhibet.

Wellington

Interior of maori meeting house.

Wellington

Cafe society.

Napier.

Mountain scenery near Napier.

Picnic hens

Linda watching cock and chickens on picnic table. We came across this a number of times when lunching by road side. Plenty of scraps being the reason?.