Thursday 03 September, 2009 at 5:27 pm / 3 comments
Massive Picture Update!
Ok, so I finally got off my lame butt and resized and compressed all the pics for the web. So here they are, it’s the same album as before so this link will take you to the start of the second batch – or just view the full slideshow to relive the start too! Lots [...]
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Monday 22 June, 2009 at 1:20 pm / 0 comment
Fiordland National Park and onto Milford Sound
After our glow worm extravaganza and in light of the discussion with the Welsh lady in the shop that sold Possum goods, we called up and booked today’s Milford Sound trip. Against Swansea-lady’s advice we decided that although yesterday’s 40-minute return catamaran trip was nice (for some more than others), the total of 9 hours [...]
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Monday 22 June, 2009 at 1:14 pm / 0 comment
Te Anau and the Glow-worm adventure
Having hoovered up most of the itinerary for the Catlins the day before, we only had a short stop left down South for the obligatory snaps at Slope point, New Zealand’s actual southernmost point. The touristy Bluff is as false as it’s name suggests, being many metres to the North of Slope Point. And so, [...]
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Wednesday 17 June, 2009 at 1:06 pm / 0 comment
Four Penguins and a Funeral
Reality check… We’d only been away for just over a fortnight; about 16 sun-ups and scarcely 4,749 episodes of Hollyoaks had gone by since we were soaked in Kennington. Yet so easily had we adopted this life that I was already brushing aside the cobwebs of Heathrow; straining to recall the movements that led to [...]
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Wednesday 17 June, 2009 at 1:03 pm / 0 comment
Balclutha: Gateway to the Catlins?
I can kind of see the logic of calling Balclutha the ‘Gateway to the Catlins’. It certainly isn’t part of the naturally beautiful Catlins reserve, but it is right next to them. Kind of like calling Treorchy the gateway to the Brecons. Seriously though, it’s grim – think of a Milton Keynes industrial estate wearing [...]
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