Category Beer, Wine and Alcohol
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Picton, Part Two
January 11-13, 2024 We were greeted with another lovely day the next morning and so were ready for our wine tour experience, with a pickup at the motel at 9:30 am. Marty had booked the Full-Day Marlborough Wine Tour Including Wine Tasting trip through Viator and we joined five other travelers for what would a […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Picton, Part One
January 11-13, 2024 We again took two Ubers to get us from Adstock House down to the ferry docks and once there, grabbed seats outside where a line was beginning to form to board the ship at 8:00 am for our 8:45 am departure. Joanna and I, remembering the time we almost missed the ferry […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Wellington, Part Three
January 8 – 10, 2024 We exited the shuttle and with some time still left in the afternoon, walked across the roundabout next to the Cable Car Station to take in the Museum of the same name there. The Cable Car is a funicular railway between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, rising […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Wellington, Part Two
January 8 – 10, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we turned in our rental bikes and walked to nearby Rosie’s Red-Hot Cantina and Taco Joint to grab a drink and a snack. We wouldn’t need much as having learned from our experience the night before, I’d made a dinner reservation at a place […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Wellington, Part One
January 8 – 10, 2024 Bright and early the next morning the Quigley’s shuttled us to the bus stop in town for our four-hour ride to Wellington. The bus driver checked us in on an iPad and after storing our luggage we climbed aboard and settled in for the journey. Arriving in Wellington, we pulled […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Whanganui, Part Two
January 5 – 7, 2024 On the way back to the house in two cars, ours made a brief stop at Cooks Gardens, a multi-purpose stadium that is currently used mostly for rugby union matches, athletics and cycling. The main stadium, known as Westpac Stadium, can hold 20,700 people with 3,500 covered seats and while […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Whanganui, Part One
January 5 – 7, 2024 Our bus ride today would be one of the longest of the trip, requiring that we head west to Hamilton, and then turn south for Whanganui, our eventual destination. It would take us over seven hours given the number of stops that the bus would be making along the way, […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part Two
January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished up at the Redwood Grove and motored a short distance to the Living Village. It is a semi-rural geothermal area in the Taupō Volcanic Zone that was the site of the Māori fortress of Te Puia, first occupied around 1325, and known as an impenetrable stronghold never taken […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part One
January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished at Winona Forever and called a couple of Ubers (Auckland didn’t have any large enough for all five of us) to get us to the Sky City Bus Terminal on Hobson Street, where we arrived soon after. This, our first interaction with the bus system, would be mildly […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part Two
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 Our first full day in New Zealand would turn out to be an exciting one, with a long and exciting e-bike tour in the morning capped off by a nice dinner and then trying to manage to stay awake until midnight. It was a challenge all around but […]
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