Category New Zealand/Australia 2024
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 – 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 […]
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