Oct 5th - 6th Leaving Kaiteriteri we drove inland to the pristine Nelson Lakes National Park which surrounds two lakes. It took us almost...

Sept 30th- Oct 5th Leaving Kaikoura we headed back up the coast to Blenheim and to the Marlborough wine region, where we visited a few...

Sept 27th- 30th We had spectacular views of Queen Charlotte Sounds as we arrived into Picton on the South Island. We stopped at a viewing...

Sept 22nd- 27th Leaving Taupo we had a long days driving ahead as we would be making our way to Wellington by the evening, which would be...

Whether you want to tick hiking a volcano off your bucket list or are a LOTR fan you'll want to do the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. Where...

Sept 16th- 22nd After a gorgeous scenic 2 hour drive from Napier we arrived in Taupō (pronounced Toe-pour). As with a few other places-...

Sept 12th- 16th Our first stop today was off the high way and an hours drive down a bumpy dirt track road to see Lake Waikaremoana, the...

Sept 10th- 12th Left our comfy but smelly home of Rotorua and headed 2 hours 'out east' to Opotiki, passed by the the nice looking town...

Driving 1 hour from Rotorua to Matamata where we registered at the i-site and waited on our bus which would drive us out to the hills...

Sept 5th- 10th Rotorua- 'Rotten-rua' as it's known due to the bubbling sulphur, also commonly miss-pronounced as 'Rota-rooah', correctly...

Sept 2nd- 5th We left The Coromandel in the morning heading for the Bay of Plenty. We stopped off at Karangahake Gorge (again, another...

Aug 31st- Sept 2nd After a detour via good old Auckland to use the hot showers at our Les Mills gym before the membership ends, and to go...

Aug 29th- 31st Another 3 hour drive back down the coast to Paihia in the Bay of Islands we checked into the 'Caravan Park Bay of Islands'...

Aug 24th- 29th And so our bags were packed, the apartment emptied, we'd been to collect our hire car, and overfilled the car with all our...

Arriving in Auckland for 2 days in 2012 we were a bit disappointed, compared to everywhere else we had visited in New Zealand, we didn’t...

The 5th May marked our 5 year anniversary, and although that ring never made an appearance, it did give us time to think about just what...