Category Whanganui

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, […]