Kia Ora! Today is our final half-day in NZ. It is going to be very hard to say goodbye to this beautiful country. We do feel that we are ready to be back to the creature comforts of home though. We didn’t notice it yesterday but our hotel has a really beautiful view of Lake […]

Kia Ora! It is our final full day in New Zealand. We are sad to leave but we are about ready to get home. Feeling pretty exhausted and ready to sleep in our own bed and enjoy the comforts of home. We woke up and enjoyed another great included breakfast in bed. Lovely. We were […]

Kia Ora! It was nice waking up this morning in the rainforest retreat. We had a breakfast included today that they delivered to our room last night. It was huge and great. It’s included a loaf of fresh bread, butters, jams, cereal, yogurt, muffins, fruit, milk and juice. We had breakfast this morning on our […]

Kia ora! Writing to you today from Franz Josef Glacier township. We woke up early in Hokitika and ate some bakery goods that we bought from the New World yesterday. New World is basically the Coles of over here. Easily better than the NZ Woolies (Countdown). We drove about 1.5 hours down to the Franz […]

Kia Ora everyone! We woke up in Nelson and got our stuff together. We had some tea and toast for breakfast which was nice. We had a morning activity planned this morning in Nelson – we were visiting the Pic’s Peanut butter factory! This is where they make all of Pic’s peanut butter. We went […]

Hello readers! We woke up much earlier than usual this morning as we had a full day activity planned and needed to drive an hour to get there. We left Nelson and embarked on the hour long drive to a place called Kaiteriteri (translation: Food quickly quickly). Kaiteriteri is located on the edge of the […]

Hello everyone. We woke up without an alarm this morning which was nice and hightailed it out of Blenheim as we really didn’t have anything to do here. We grabbed a couple of Hawaiian rolls from the Countdown and hit the road. It was about a 1.5 hour drive to Nelson. It was quite a […]

Hi everyone. We woke up this morning in our nice accommodation across from the beach. We packed our stuff and grabbed some sausage rolls from the Kaikoura bakery that were tiny and then zipped over to our morning activity and drove about 2 minutes down the road to where it was. At the centre there […]

Hello readers. We woke up to a much nicer weather today in Christchurch. We packed our stuff into the car and checked out of our accommodation. Then we walked around Christchurch looking at all the street art on our way to breakfast. Breakfast was at Grizzly Baked goods. Ronnie got a Pain Au Chocolate which […]

This morning it had stopped raining but it was still incredibly cold from the icy wind chill. We got ready for the day and headed by car to Copenhagen Bakery which was on the way to our first activity. At the bakery we got a steak and cheese pie, cheese potato top pie and sausage […]