Not so wet We(s)t coast

The South Island is almost history (at least for the moment) and I will soon be on the way to a new adventure before New Zealand part two is following. However, more about this later. First I will have a look back about the last few weeks on the way up from Te Anau to the north end of the South Island of New Zealand. Tailwind and Adrenaline: Te Anau – Wanaka After Heinz and I arrived together in Te […]

Stormy: Christchurch – Cook – Te Anau

Time is running fast at the moment and I didn’t have the time to write a blog entry earlier unfortunately. However, here it is finally and it’s about the windy days from Christchurch along the Southern Alps down to Te Anau and Fjordland in the south of the South Island. Happy reading! Christchurch – Lake Tekapo After I cycled for a few days with the Dutch cyclist Femke to Christchurch – she flew to Auckland to discover the North Island […]

South Island: Wellington – Christchurch

I left Christchurch already in the mean time and I’m on the way towards south. However, a lot of stuff happened on the way to the biggest city of the South Island and I met several interesting people. You can read about all that and more in this blog entry. Enjoy! Tongariro – Wellington – Nelson
 For speeding up the journey a bit, I took the train from the Tongariro National Park to Wellington. The train because transportation of the […]

Hot: Rotorua – Tongariro

Two weeks have passed again and I made it to Wellington already. Soon I will take the ferry to the South Island. So the North island is done for now. It was again a very interesting time (as you also can see in the length of this entry) but there is still a lot more to see. More will come maybe later :-). We will see. Hahei –  Whangamata After we stayed for another day in the hostel in Hahei […]

New Zealand: Auckland & Coromandel

Yes, I’m a wimp. When it was raining heavily the morning when I wanted to leave Hahei, I decided to stay for another night in the nice hostel. Also because the weather forecast for the rest of the day wasn’t really better. The good thing is: because of that, you get now  this blog entry, also if the English version is a bit delayed. It’s about the first few days in New Zealand and includes also a small adventure :-). […]