Our grand tour

Heute geht’s nach Nelson. Ein Ziel, das jeder von uns entgegensehnt. Warum? Weil wir hier für ein paar Tage bei einem deutschen Paar unterkommen können. Ich hatte sie im Gymnasium Sonthofen bei einer Veranstaltung kennengelernt und fand sie auf Anhieb…

Greymouth isn’t as grey as its name anymore as the sun is shining again. Don’t want to leave my bed though, it’s too comfortable. By the time we leave the hostel it’s already one o’clock. After a short stroll through…

This morning, fresh and adventurous we decided to have a proper look at a glacier. As Franz-Josef is bigger and on our route, that’s the one. Clouds were slowly building up and the forecast was awful. Nevertheless we hiked the…

It was a long drive to Fox Glacier. For a short bit we were back at the Tasman Sea. We arrived at about six o’clock at the car park and couldn’t be bothered to walk the two kilometers to the…

Arrowtown is an old gold mining town with a big Chinese community. It still has it’s old school flair and felt like a bit of a time warp. Our car managed steep serpentines, although smelling awfully burnt after that. I…

Queenstown: a town with lots of memories for Bill, as he spent a few weeks here 17 years ago. For me it was like Oberstdorf on a summer day. Full of tourists and touristy shops in the mountains, just a…

Here we come again! Enjoyed the drive and stops on the way back.

A perfect sunny day for the top of the top 10 to do in New Zealand. Milford Sound which is a fjord and not sound. We were a bit worried if the car would manage the steep road, but Bill…

After we decided not to go to Milford Sound (too touristy, takes too long of a detour, not worth without going for a decent hike…) we headed off to…. Milford Sound. Yes, all the reasons not to go couldn’t change…

Went to sleep at a campsite and woke up on a lake. It had rained all night and didn’t look as if it wanted to stop soon. Luckily the tent wasn’t drowned. Just at the edge. But there was no…