After an unforgettable road trip around New Zealand this January we flew back to Australia for the last leg of our adventure! Our flight landed at Sydney International Airport at around 5.30pm and we spent our first night back with our friends, Luke and Kristen, eating homemade meatballs and having welcome back drinks. It was
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Okay, whilst Cordon Bleu may be a bit of an overstatement when it comes to describing our efforts at campervan cooking, it’s amazing just what you can rustle up on a two ring stove! Before we started out on our month long road trip around New Zealand we had visions of living off baked beans
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Our last night in New Zealand was spent back where our Kiwi road trip first began – Westhaven Marina in Auckland! We drove there from Waitomo where we had visited the glow worm caves and arrived just as it was getting dark. It was Valentine’s Day so we decided to treat ourselves to an Indian
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The ferry from Picton to New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, left at 7pm on a beautiful but moody night. We waved goodbye to the South Island whilst watching the sun go down over the horizon and looked forward to enjoying our last few days in New Zealand… We reached dry land just after 10pm and
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We woke up to a beautiful day in Nelson after camping at the designated parking site just five minutes out of the city. It was a Saturday so we decided to pay a visit to Nelson’s Saturday Market at Montgomery Square, where we had heard that we could also find a shower! The market was
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After leaving our sea-side camp in Westport’s North Beach, we spent a few hours in the town sorting out our laundry, filling up with petrol, showering and using the internet before setting off once again! We drove through the beautiful Buller Gorge en route to the Abel Tasman National Park. The Buller Gorge is not
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The West Coast’s state highway 6 is arguably New Zealand’s best coastal road with wild, blustery beaches scattered with rocky limestone outcrops lining the highway. We drove up SH6 to Punakaiki, an area renowned for the ‘Pancake Rocks’. The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area where unique layering has been created by immense
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We woke up at our camp near Whataroa just as people were turning up for their scenic flights which took off from the car park. From there we drove north towards Pukekura – a unique ‘town’ north of Glacier Country with a population of… (wait for it) two!! Pete & Justine – aka Mayor and
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After the adrenaline rush and excitement of Queenstown, we were ready for a relaxing, scenic drive towards the West Coast of New Zealand. We had camped by the side of Lake Hawea after leaving Queenstown so after waking up the next day we set off over the Glacier-carved Haast Pass – the lowest pass of
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New Zealand just keeps getting better and better for us. We’ve already had beautiful beaches, rare wildlife, volcanic hotspots, breathtaking boat cruises and majestic mountains, but it was time for another New Zealand cliché… the Bungy Jump! For this we had to go to Queenstown – the birthplace of Bungy. Queenstown is nestled beside the
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