We travelled up Highway 80 today (Tuesday) and we could not have been more fortunate, as the above photo shows. No rain, no clouds, no tourists. Perfect. Well, perfect for us, but we are still very aware of the major…
TSS Earnslaw
Much of Saturday was taken up with a cruise on the Twin Screw Steamer Earnslaw, the only remaining coal-fired steamship in the Southern Hemisphere. It dates from Edwardian times and was launched in the same year as the Titanic: 1912.…
Otago Peninsula and Dunedin Day 2
We both wanted to see Larnach’s Castle – Pip, because she has never been there before, and me because I was last there in August 1964 during a family trip to the South Island. It is essentially a Victorian Folly,…
To Otago
On Saturday we headed south from Twizel through Omarama and Otematata to Oamaru and Dunedin. We saw many amazing vistas but this one was one of the most dramatic, looking down on one of the hydro lakes. South of Omarama…
The Blog Strikes Back
Well, the last blog post was dated in 2017, so it has been a while. Settling back into New Zealand, then settling into a new apartment in a new city (Tauranga), then settling into what I like to think of…