From Wellington, a 3 hour ferry and a 6 hour train ride took us to Christchurch. The ferry was full of tourists, locals, and livestock as it made its way to Pincton, a tiny little village with a large cargo port for ships and trains and backpacking hostels for those making their way through the [...]
Dec 202010
Dec 162010
We got to our hotel for about 2/2:30pm. Wellington is a very hilly town with a population of 450,000. The way it compensates for its hills is kind of strange. To get to the hotel, we had to enter through a small shopping area to take an elevator 9 stories up, and then we were [...]
Dec 152010
Swam in a long beach on Waiheke Island. Got miserably sun burnt. Nothing I can do about it other than grin and bear it. After did a day long tour of some New Zealand countryside, and then a boat ride around the Bay of Islands. The next day, wandered around downtown Auckland, then at 6:30pm [...]
