We last left you in the internet cafe on a rainy Saturday in Hamilton, after leaving our phone number at the Champions office for spare tickets and preparing ourselves to ask anybody and everybody for All Blacks vs South Africa tri-nations tickets. Fortunately the hard work paid off! After a few near misses (one guys children [...]
Fran and Nige do the globe
tasting the world
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Sep 18
Skiing, skydiving and scoring tickets
Happy to leave the rain of Queenstown, we head towards blue sky over Wanaka and the West coast beyond. Dwarfed by it’s teenage plagued neighbour of Queenstown, Wanaka is rather more low key, but just as much a skiing hub being the nearest place to stay for Cardrona and the Treble Cone ski field. Unfortunately [...]
Sep 18
Penguins, Cheese and Rain……….
The Spacetravel then took us south onto Christchurch, the most English of all the New Zealand towns, and it certainly was. Oxford and Cambridge terrace with a lovely river running through the middle of them reminded us of home and especially Oxford. We decided against the touristy punting though and opted for a kayak instead, [...]