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New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part Two
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our Skyrail journey ended at the Kuranda station, where we disembarked and had to hike a short distance up to the town itself. A cute little touristy destination with loads of the kinds of shops one finds in these locations, we stopped for a bit to grab a cold […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part One
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our flight the next morning to Cairns at 12:30 pm would again give us plenty of time to clean up and check out of the Airbnb and still get to our flight. We’d be flying for the first time on Jetstar, an Australian low-cost airline headquartered in Melbourne and […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Melbourne, Part Three
January 22-27, 2024 As mentioned in the previous post, the next day would be another long and rewarding one. We would be heading out to Phillip Island for a day of sightseeing, wine tasting, and a visit to the famous nighttime penguin parade with Phillip Island Penguins, Wine Tasting and Dinner from Melbourne through Viator. […]
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 […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Christchurch, Part Two
January 14-16, 2024 After finishing our coffee and snacks at the boathouse, we again hopped into two Ubers for a drive to our second adventure of the day, the International Antarctic Center. It is in a campus containing the Christchurch bases for New Zealand, US, and Italian Antarctic Programs, and comprises administration offices, warehousing, an […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Christchurch
January 14-16, 2024 We’d been looking forward to this next leg of our journey as we’d decided to book the Great Journeys New Zealand scenic train from Picton to Christchurch. Instead of taking the bus, this option promised a more comfortable six-hour journey with some great scenery to behold. It would be more expensive than […]
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