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After 4 years away from New Zealand, I am so pleased to announce that “The Awakened”, the first book of a trilogy revolving around the amazing landscape of this beautiful country, is published today through Clink Street Publishing. Thank you … Continue reading →

So there we have it. Folks. 6000 kms travelled, 4500 photos taken, Close encounters of the Third and Fourth kinds. We have experienced things that go “Bump” in the night, strange lights in the skies, baby seals with a touch … Continue reading →

The final full day with the RV dawned and the weather closed in over the mountains, echoing our mood. Grey, yet with a promise of the sunshine out there somewhere. We had to move on and leave this wonderful country … Continue reading →

Today, we were due to do a lot of travelling. so we got up at a fairly reasonable time, had breakfast and set off back through Wanaka, up to PuzzleWorld and then dived off up SH6. This was to be … Continue reading →

Our trip continued heading north, closer to the end of our amazing adventure, and, as if to tease us, New Zealand decided to bless us with great weather as we retraced our tracks back up the Crown Range Road and … Continue reading →

We were advised that the clouds were likely to come in force today, so we decided to cut our Milford experience and drive back to Queenstown. It was a very sad day today as we had to accept that now … Continue reading →

Most of the rubber around the windows and roof remained intact on inspection in the morning! No sign of the pesky Kea. The sight of a partially clothed mad man with head torch blazing and frying pan and spoon at … Continue reading →

We set off after breakfast with a mission in mind. As we might have mentioned a few times, we do like LOTR and today we wanted to find a few sites that some scenes were filmed from. The first was … Continue reading →

We took a lazy day off after Mitch had done some more studying and wandered down to the harbour for a lovely coffee. Afterwards we went up on the gondola to the viewing platform overlooking the town and Lake Wakatipu. … Continue reading →