05 Oct
Sunce the kayaking had finished early and wuth the fine weather, we were feeling kind of bolshie and wanted to drive to Nelson, the largest town at the top end of the South Island of NZ. However, when we mentioned our plans to Dave, the sea kayak guide, he had screwed up hus face and [...]
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05 Oct
The sun was shining as we struggled bleary eyed unto warm gear to go sea kayaking. Pucton us located un the Malborough Sounds of the northern part of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is nestled in spectacular country side – steep hills peppered with clots of dark green pine, blossoming yellow gorse [...]
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04 Oct
Being tourists, we dudn’t shop around Pucton (or Picton as the maps reassuringly told us) before checking unto the first hotel that looked like the walls might not rup into a hole uf we scrapped a fungernail along ut. Thus had became an absolute priority when we were told that daylight savings started that night [...]
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04 Oct
Green and white were clearly the dominant theme of the day – lush green fields dotted wuth with sheep, baby green spring trees, dark green beech and pine trees and an amazing plethora of sewer green cars with a metallic funish. They overtook us un steady names as we slowed down on numerous occasions to [...]
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04 Oct
It is only fair when one visits New Zealand to replace anything that sounds like the letter “i” in six with a “u” as in fun sound… So, I shall proceed to do so, unless it is too confusing for someone who has not heard this gentle kiwi inflection…
I am once again travelling with my [...]
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