I recently visited the set of the Lord of the Rings filming location for Hobbiton in New Zealand. Sadly, that is about all I am allowed to actually write about the experience, due to a rather impressive looking piece of legal paper I had to sign that I’m pretty sure gives Peter Jackson the rights […]
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Zorbing Rotorua
Although I have now left Rotorua, there is one more thing I need to tell you about my time there before moving on to new adventures. This thing being the weird and wonderful adventure activity known as Zorbing. It’s one of the quirkier entries in our list of first-trip highlights for New Zealand. Zorbing, for […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: My Beautiful Adventures
After a brief hiatus, I am delighted to be publishing another article in the series of travel blogging tips. Today’s article features the lovely Andi Perullo, author of My Beautiful Adventures. Shortly to be married (congratulations :)), Andi’s blog features updates on her travels, thoughts on her life, guest posts and even fashion advice. Unlike […]
To luge, perchance to dream
The ongoing mission to experience every adventure activity available in Rotorua has continued successfully with a recent trip to the luge track, kindly set up for us by the nice folk over at the luging park. Luging, for those of you not familiar with the concept (which appears to also evade my dictionary), involves taking […]
Rafting the Kaituna
I have a minor problem with this post, and it is one that has caused me to delay posting it for some time. The problem is (or at least, was) that I don’t have any suitable pictures to go with it. This is perhaps not the end of the world, but lets be honest, a […]
The Rotorua night market, and other tales
Rotorua’s night market is home to the worlds greatest chocolate brownie maker. I could end the post right there, and allow you to just salivate in awe at the thought of dense, rich, smooth chocolaty wonder, but that would make this blog entry excessively short. Instead I will tell you about the delights that the […]
A Spa Experience
I thought Germany was pretty nice when I visited it last year. Great beer, interesting people, spectacular bread. Oh, and the scenery was rather fine too. I am starting to come to the conclusion however that this is not necessarily a view shared by many Germans, as I think they have all left Germany and […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: A Dangerous Business
This weeks travel blogging tips article features one of my favourite travel bloggers: Amanda Williams, author of travel blog A Dangerous Business. Amanda and I share a passion for New Zealand, and she has already provided me with a wonderfully comprehensive post on what to do when in the land of the long white cloud, […]
New Zealand’s surf coast highway
In today’s post I’ll be talking about a part of New Zealand that isn’t on the usual route of many travellers heading through NZ, a route that often starts in Auckland, passes through the Coromandel Peninsula, then turns south via volcanic Rotorua and the Tongariro Alpine Crossing towards Wellington and the ferry to the South […]
Climbing Mount Taranaki in photos
Mount Taranaki is the second highest mountain on New Zealand’s north island, at 2517m (around 8500ft for you folks on the imperial system). The climb up it is a gruelling 17km hike, and this is generally regarded as being one of the toughest day hikes you can do on the north island. With this knowledge […]