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Travels with Pauline: Last day in New Zealand
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Last day in New Zealand. Our bus teetering on the edge. The view is tremendous of course, and my camera does not do it justice. Auckland looks much better from here than in the mean streets of the CBD! As you can guess, the ride to the ariport was uneventful. One of many beautiful lakes in NZ. I suppose the recent...
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Travels with Pauline: Cave, glow worms and tin dogs
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Friday, April 22, 2011. Cave, glow worms and tin dogs. Day 14 NZ Sun April 17. Phone went at 5.30am, only once as if it realised it had made a mistake mid ring…it had. The real wake up call came at 6.15 by which time I was showered and dressed. They are called fumeroles. Power poles fly by with silver bands near the top to stop the opossums.
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Travels with Pauline: Off to New Zealand
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Off to New Zealand. April 4 2011 Day 1. Air NZ run a video of Richard Simmons taking us through the safety precautions, hilarious but all I can remember are his antics! It is still pouring with rain. Land of the long white cloud. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Last day in New Zealand. Second to last day. Day 11...
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Travels with Pauline
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Day 13 NZ Sat April 16. Nice not to have to repack the suitcase today. But what is this? I noticed a video running. It’s an excerpt from a David Attenborough doco about Keas, showing how strong their beaks are. I must revisit the DVD when I get back to OZ. Apparently they have the brain power of ...W arrive at the...
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Travels with Pauline: A day in Queenstown
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Sunday, April 10, 2011. A day in Queenstown. NZ Day 4,April 7 2011. Good not to have to hit the road this morning. Did laundry and wrote 2 blogs, caught up on email. Kit has wonderful news, her son is getting married in September. Back at the Copthorne Resort changed for dinner at Walter Peak High country Farm, accessed via a coal steamer t...
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Travels with Pauline
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Day 6 Saturday April 9. First photo stop after leaving Te Anau is Lake Manapouri. For some reason I love this name. Some time ago the area was threatened with a dam which would have flooded the township etc. But locals protested and petitioned and it didn’t happen thus the area was saved. It speaks for itself. We pa...
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Travels with Pauline: Six degrees of separation...
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Thursday, April 14, 2011. Six degrees of separation. Day 7 Sunday April 10. On the way to the first port whence frozen meat was exported (Oamaru) Chris our driver asked, ‘What do you get when you eat onions and baked beans? 8217; Answer: ‘tear gas.’. 8216;What is his name? 8217; she asked. 8216;David Chatt,’ said I. Nothing could top that b...
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Travels with Pauline
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Day 11 NZ Thurs April 14. Going up in the world this morning. First to the top of the cable car run at Wellington’s Botanical Gardens. On top of Mt Victoria. New Zealanders have a few expressions I haven’t heard before:. Pit fruit – (plum, peaches etc., what we call stone fruit. 8216;trim milk’ for skim milk. Otherw...
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Travels with Pauline: Working dogs and runny noses
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Past, current and forthcoming travels. Not as young as I was but young enough to be curious about the world and go places to write about it. View my complete profile. Thursday, April 14, 2011. Working dogs and runny noses. Day 8 Monday April 11. I have a cold. Had to pop the Panadol this morning. Instead of coffee I’ve been imbibing hot lemon, honey and ginger. The elusive Mt Aoraki. Lake Tekapo viewed from the Church of the Good Shepherd. Traversing through an area known as the McKenzie district, we pas...
