Tranzalpine Express 4

The Kilboran's Great Antipodean Adventure - Episode Eight - Trains and Boats and Planes.....followed by one very long, but amazing Road Trip!

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January 19th 2018
Today was another early start, with a 7.30 taxi pick up to go to Christchurch station and catch our first train of the holiday, the excitingly named Tranzalpine Express for a coast to coast journey across the South Island. So, in the words of Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas in the 1965 hit (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David), today we will be completing the 'full set of transport' on this tri ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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