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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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