Category New Zealand
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Conclusion, Part Two
December 28, 2023 – February 6, 2024 Continuing with our conclusion we’ll look at the other cost categories we compiled. Food I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of the types of cuisine we would find in both countries and I would say that if there were any dominant categories, it would be the […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Conclusion, Part One
December 28, 2023 – February 6, 2024 In summary, except for the issue I had with my hip, I don’t think the trip could have gone any better. As we work our way through our concluding posts, we’ll examine our costs, logistics and explain the logic of our decisions, subject by subject. Lodging For this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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