Baaaaaaaa, Welcome to Christmas Part 2. And Sheepworld. Especially Sheepworld. Because I LOVED Sheepworld. (Edit: Or, actually JUST Sheepworld. It seemed to need its whole own entry. :P) Yesterday morning (the 28th) CC and I drove to Sheepworld, 20mins away from Wellsford. Sheepworld is… a world of sheep. And of many other farm animals, who […]
POHUTAKAWA
means bless you in Maori. No it doesn’t really. I’ve just been having serious problems trying to come up with a title for this. Ok so Christmas special-time. HAPPY CHRISTMAS. This is my favourite tree in NZ, the Pohutakawa, also known as the ‘NZ Christmas tree’. GORGEOUS eh!? Our more ‘traditional’ Christmas will be tomorrow […]
Climbing Rangitoto the volcano
Hello my preciouses, So, Saturday we went to explore Rangitoto Island. A volcanic island in the Hauraki gulf, 5.5km wide island, an iconic and widely visible landmark of Auckland with a distinctive symmetrical 260 m-high shield volcano cone. (Ta wikipedia!) One of the main naturey tourist attractions of the Auckland area. After a scrumptious home-cooked […]
Rotorua Part 2: Kiwis and Tuataras and the experience of lugeing!
iHOLA! So, continuing about Friday. Rainbow Springs. Rainbow Springs is “based around NZ’s largest and most successful Kiwi Conservation Centre” and have released over 1,000 kiwis into the wild. (http://www.rainbowsprings.co.nz/250/about-us/about-us). In addition to kiwis, it has loads of endemic NZ trees and birds and fish and lots of information on them.Firstly I just have to […]
Whangarei, Matamata (Hobbiton) & Rotorua Part 1
Coucou mes chéris! The 19th was the day of Whangarei (pronounced “Fangarei” in a Finnishy accent) (it rhymes!) and Hayzybobzykins. Whangarei is the northernmost city in New Zealand, sort of half-way between Auckland and Russell, so it seemed like a nice half-way point to meet. CC and his housies said it’s not the best town […]
DEVONPORT I love you
Good day fellow human beings, ‘Today’ (the 18th) was a very good day, the day we went to Devonport. Devonport would be a 1½h walk away, or two buses. I decided to walk the way of the first bus (38mins, according to googlemaps), and take the second one. Buses are a hassle and I decided […]
Birkenhead and Kiwi spelling
WAZZZZAAAAAA homies, Today our first topic shall be Kiwi spelling. One of our first days roadtripping there was a sign next to the road advertising strawberries. (So, letting drivers know there is a stall/little shop selling strawberries in a bit down the road.) Except it wasn’t spelt strawberries, it was spelt STRWABERRIES. Quick typing probs… […]
Northcote and Auckland: Discovering my next NZ home
YO BROS (and why not sistas), (practising me rugby kiwi slang, see what I did there) Today I shall tell you about the two following days (15th and 16th) which were basically me getting to know my knew home environment. I have travelled alone countless times, explored alone countless times, all good fun. But I’ve always […]
Kiwi talk, snorkelling and Marmite
Gudday me pumpkins! I shall now teach you how to speak Kiwi… Through a picture. Brilliant eh, and I thought most of those were CC’s own little peculiar ways of saying stuff, not nationwide… Anyways, the last entry I wrote concluded our little road trip, and since then CC has started work (working insane hours […]
Big trees, public loos and kiwi chocolate
13. December (Friday the 13th!!) Today we left Kaitaia and made our way down the west coast of Northland (the northernmost region in NZ). Points of interest: the teeny weeny village of Kohukohu (I love Maori place-names!!). Our motel had no wifi since wifi is considered a luxury in this country. I was hoping to find a […]