On my trip home from Tongariro at the beginning of February, I spent 24 hours in Wellington. What I thought might be a fairly staid small-town capital full of New Zealand bureaucrats turned out to be a great little city.
Tag: New Zealand
To Taupo on a Beech1900
OK, I’m a bit of a plane nerd. So instead of catching the highway bus from Auckland to Taupo, I had a bit of fun and caught a flight instead. The fare was quite reasonable, so I had a 40 minute ride on an Air New Zealand Link Beech 1900 – a 19 seat commuter plane.
24 hours in Auckland for Anniversary Weekend
On the way to Taupo and the Tongaririo Northern Circuit a few weeks ago, Mark, Jen & I overnighted in Auckland. We had no idea that dropping in on Auckland on a Sunday afternoon and Monday morning in late January would mean that our visit coincided with the Auckland Anniversary Day celebrations. The day celebrates… Continue reading 24 hours in Auckland for Anniversary Weekend
Off for a tramp in Tongariro
Instead of doing Australia Day holiday in Australia, where better to do it than in New Zealand, and then spend the week tramping around a North Island volcano? Instead of doing the Tongariro Crossing, which is a one-day hike that all of the tourists seem to do, we plan to spend four days doing the Tongariro Northern Circuit.