Today I’m back on track, after a brief sojourn around some rather scenic toilets. By back on track, I am referring to the tale of my trip around Northland – the most northerly part of New Zealand’s north island. Unimaginative name aside, this is a spectacular place. Stretching out above Auckland far into the Pacific […]
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Top five scenic toilets of New Zealand
The eyes of the world are about to turn on New Zealand for a little upcoming tournament involving an oddly shaped ball and burly men wearing short shorts. As a result, I imagine that the New Zealand tourism board is working feverishly to ensure that every last piece of information that the potential tourist could […]
Ancient trees of New Zealand’s far north
Coming, as I do, from the northern hemisphere (well, partly at least) – a place with the name “Northland” conjures up images of icy pinnacles and wind swept glaciers. A place where frost rimmed yaks roam frozen wastelands, and explorers battle immense hardship to conquer peaks. For New Zealanders however, the further North one goes, […]
Wanders through Wellington
Having babbled on at some length as to the virtues of Dunedin, it is now time to turn my attention to my other favourite Kiwi city – which also happens to be the countries capital – the city of Wellington. Wellington is tucked away on the southern tip of the North island, and most travellers […]
Whale Crazy Kaikoura
I should probably preface this post with a note that, title aside, I didn’t see any actual Whales in Kaikoura, despite quite a lot of frenzied staring out to sea. What I did see was a town that is somewhat obsessed by these creatures, and which shares it’s obsession with over a million visitors a […]
Akaroa and the Banks Peninsula
The town of Akaroa, is, quite frankly, a bit weird. Situated just near Christchurch, on a piece of land known as the Banks Peninsula, it appears to be, to all intents and purposes, French. France is not the first place that one usually thinks of when roaming your average Kiwi village. Other than an obsession […]
The Moeraki boulders, and other rocks
New Zealand is home to some pretty impressive bits of rock, as my posts on Milford Sound and Mount Cook should by now have made clear. However, looking at the slightly smaller scale, there is no shortage of impressive stuff either. In today’s post I’m going to be looking at three smaller scale rocky locales […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: Fevered Mutterings
Today I am delighted to be interviewing a travel blogger who seems to always be getting himself into tragic circumstances, and then writing about it with wit and humour. He doesn’t really need much more introduction than that – I am of course talking about Mike Sowden, author of travel blog Fevered Mutterings. In this […]
Mighty Mount Cook in photos
Oh New Zealand. How you tempt me. After leaving the west coast and the Queenstown region I thought that was going to be it for mighty mountains. I thought a road trip up the somewhat flat south east coast was going to be the future. But no. You tease me with glorious weather, and force […]
Dunedin in a day
I don’t normally write too much about the cities of New Zealand. This is partly because I’m mostly travelling this country for its epic scenery – which it has in bucketloads – and partly because, if I’m honest, New Zealand cities don’t normally do much for me. Don’t get me wrong. They certainly have their […]