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Travel Journals: Picton, New Zealand


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South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...

Member: Luna
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New Zealand

Well if you have got this far then its surely worth a read and a peek at the photo's. My journal for NZ is more of a day to day 'this is what i have done' as that was the nature of my trip and of course a little bit of cultural history thrown in ....Oh...

Member: Tanya
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Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

Member: Paul
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Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

Member: FisherTours and BoothTravel
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New Zealand 2006

Early morning flight out of Tullamarine!We were up at 0-dark-00 and heding up the highway to Tulla. Who to talk to? Fortunately Louise and Fiona were reachable on the other side of the world, lou on a train to London and Fi on her way to the pictures, ...

Member: Elizabeth
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New Zealand 2006

27 March I got to Dunedin and lunchtime and met Phil by the train station. He is the eldest of my NZ cousins. He showed me around Dunedin and then dropped my stuff off at his home. I had a great day around the city, shopping and looking at the Scottis...

Member: alexandra
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Look out for Kiwis !!

DAY 0 On the 19th of December (a Tuesday) after a pretty nice Christmas lunch with my working team in a nice restaurant in town (I shouldn’t have had so much wine…), I took the plane from Melbourne to land in Christchurch, where I was joined a couple ...

Member: Katia
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Trip to New Zealand, USA and Canada

Skiing at lake Lousie was pretty sweet with me and matty enjoying a massive dumping while jezza was at home resting a sore ankle. Poor guy, we ate burgers there too. We also spent waitangi day there skiing which turned into a morning side for life fre...

Member: Steve
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Gap Year : New Zealand

It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...

Member: Luke
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Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

Member: Sarah and Ricky
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New Zealand 2006

I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday 5th October, Marthie told me that Bob would come and get me at the airport so I entered Auckland airport staring at all the bold older men, not sure what they must have thought, after about 5 minutes I cal...

Member: Conli
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South Island

Our trip to Nelson/Carters Beach with Pronoti & Pradeep...

Member: Kedar
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flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

Member: jenny
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New Zealand & Australia

Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...

Member: Louise
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New Zealand 2005

The bus trip started today - nine days of travelling in an anti-clockwise direction around the South Island, from Christchurch to Christchurch via everywhere. I'm on a trip organised by Stray Travel, which is a more 'grown-up' version of the typical ba...

Member: Richard
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RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

Member: Dion & Steph
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Round the World 2005-6

From Wanaka we headed up to Franz Josef, home of the Franz Josef glacier. We stayed at a charming little backpackers called Glowworm Cottages, with fresh homemade soup served every evening. We opted to do a full day guided walk on the glacier and so ar...

Member: Peter
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The Pacific, NZ and a tiny bit of Oz

Dunedin is a nice but fairly quiet town. We found the world's steepest street - Badwin st and drove to the top and held our breath on the steep descent! Then we drove out to the Otago peninsula and visited Larnach Castle - New Zealand's only castle. ...

Member: Chris and Aine
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Dom's Travel Quest

Landed here Sunday 9th May 2006! Settled in very quickly, with a house, job and car within first few weeks! (Only with a lot of help from my friends!)...

Member: Dominique
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New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006

27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...

Member: Graham
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New Zealand & Australia '06-'07

South Island consisted of Sailing adventures in Abel Tasman, Pancake rocks, dancing on bars, Hiking up a glacier in the middle of a rainforest, Karaoke in the middle of nowhere, BUNGEE in Queenstown, Cruising Milford Sound, Stewart Island (next stop An...

Member: Terri
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New Zealand

Our first Christmas in the southern hemisphere for all of us except Rich so we were expecting a blazing sunny day and to head into the lake. Well it was warm and after dinner Rich and I raced into the lake but more fuelled by the alcohol than the blazi...

Member: Claire and Paul
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BMA Conference & Elective

Click 'view photo album' to see all the photos. Ah... the buffet breakfast! I'm not sure I'll ever be able to eat pineapple again in britain. The buffet is superb - salmon, fruit, traditional malay food, muffins, danish pastries, fruit, toast, eggs,...

Member: Phil
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Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

Member: Lindsey
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New Zealand - The South Island

Okay, is this what mother nature does to get back at us for complaining too much about the heat in Australia?? Today was cold and rainy (high of 9C) as we made our way from Gore to Te Anau. The poor weather started yesterday as we spent time in the m...

Member: Doris and Mike
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Trip of a lifetime

Shopping. A woman's downfall and yet the source of such entertainment and happiness! Julie has said throughout this trip that she was saving all of her shopping until South-East Asia because it's sooo much cheaper here. And she has pretty much kept h...

Member: Lucy
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Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

Member: Sam
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Mountains, snow and Ice...!!!!

How time flies... hadn't realised it had been so long since I did my last journal..!! Ah well, better bring you back up to speed then hadn't I..?!?! Well after leaving Taupo, I moved on to Napier. Napier is famous for its art deco buildings that ...

Member: Carol
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Kiiwis are priimo!

NZ, to say it short = sweet ass priimou! Arrived in Auckland where I stayed at Base Bp`s and had a priimou sanctuary girls dorm there (was almost more like a hotel more than a hostel). Wellington beats Auckland 100%! Had a great buss trip throu...

Member: funsoaker
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Weltreise 2006

In Darwin checken wir in Chillis Backpacker Hostel ein. Unser Plan, die Westkueste entlang zu reisen, platzt innerhalb einer Minute, da zwischen Darwin und Broome alle Strassen ueberschwemmt sind und es auch zwischen Broome und Perth sieben Zyklone gab...

Member: Kati n Rob
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