Monthly Archives: June 2024
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Melbourne, Part One
January 22-27, 2024 Our flight from Queenstown to Melbourne via Virgin Australia was scheduled to depart at 2:30 pm for $248 per person one-way. The afternoon departure meant we didn’t have to rush out of the house and could take our time cleaning up and eating most of the leftover food so that we didn’t […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part Four
January 17-21, 2024 Quite a few people we’d encountered along the way recommended Botswana Butchery to us and so we were glad to be able to enjoy its food and very good service. The menu, while diverse to an extent, would still be steakhouse focused, which had been the single constant so far in our […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part Three
January 17-21, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, today would be a full day, one that would start out on the gloomy side for Bev, Marty, and I and turn out to be one of the highlights of the trip. The three of us had booked an e-bike excursion from Arrowtown to Queenstown through […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part Two
January 17-21, 2024 The next day would be fairly relaxed with just one activity, the Queenstown Highlights Tour scheduled for mid-morning. At $403 for the five of us, this most of the day trip would run us just $80 per person and would be well worth the price at the end of the day. A […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part One
January 17-21, 2024 Today, our bus ride to Queenstown, the last of the trip, would be a long one at around eight hours. It would turn out not to be that arduous as we had a longish stop for lunch halfway through and then a couple of hours out from the end when we had […]
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