easy peasy kiwi squeezy

So much sand...

So there it was. The West Coast. The place where even New Zealanders go on vacation - the Baltic Sea of New Zealanders, so to speak. 'Untamed natural wilderness' is the 'slogan'...

Maggi: 'Don't drive so fast!' Richard: 'I'm going 80.' Maggi with a concerned look at the speedometer: 'Well, ninety...' Richard: 'I'm aging my age. I've aged quite a bit in the...

We had heard only good things about the 'Catlins', the area located in the southeast of the South Island. So they somehow ended up on our travel list. Being clueless, we stormed...

The past few days have once again shown us how exhausting traveling can be. The constant planning, driving, walking, taking photos, collecting impressions, and then moving on...

Verschlafene Erde Verschlafene Erde, Sag, Weck ich dich Mit meinem Fuß? Weck ich dich Mit meines Fußes Gruß? Still, ganz still Mit seiltanzartiger Eleganz Führe ich...

If I summarize our current average situation like this: it rains, it's cold, wet, we didn't sleep well, and electricity and Wi-Fi are a rare luxury - and yet we're somehow...

...And off to Christchurch. The city, which is one of New Zealand's major cities with a population of 366,000, was supposed to be a kind of stopover for our big trip south....

Our days in Akaroa are coming to an end. To be more precise, our last day in Akaroa is coming to an end. And to be even more precise, we will be leaving the francophile small...

No, not what you're thinking! For a change, this blog post is NOT about something inappropriate but rather (the really clever ones among you will have already guessed based on...

After almost a month of absence in this little corner of our common friend, the internet, here is a first sign of life. As an excuse, the busy work routine, to which we are...

Bus ride to Wellington

(Read first, then look at pictures ;) ) 'Mainly the forest is green and the fish bite.' With these words (spoken in the best Hochbadisch) Bernie ends our heated discussion...

Wichtige Eilmeldung, gerade reingekommen: Richi (haltet euch fest!) hat einen Job! Einen richtigen Job! 40 Stunden die Woche und bezahlt und so! Start: nächste Woche! Der große...

This quote is intended as a demonstration of the rough tone that prevails on Sydney's streets. The above was the harsh reaction of a Sydneysider to an approaching fundraiser,...

'According to this, you have to be at the Check-In 1 1/2 hours before departure'. We are sitting in the bus from our hostel to Auckland Airport and as always, when you're in a...

One month and 17 days, we have been in New Zealand. And a month and 24 days ago, our journey began. That's quite a long time! However...it feels like we have been traveling for...

When traveling, you sometimes experience the craziest things. Some of them are good crazy, others, well, bad crazy. And sometimes, out of a lack of alternatives, you walk into...

Dear fans and dear haters, dear patient readers and dear naked photo lookers, dear friends and family overseas or elsewhere in the world, dear interested readers of our little...

The room door opens, voices drift in. Sleepily, I squint against the light. What time is it? Those must be the others, just finished watching the movie and now going to bed....

You think your problems start when your roommates put on a little snoring concert at night with great tact and amazing nostril volume. polyphonic. Partially also in combination...

Oatmeal. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but oatmeal. Alternatively, half-burnt toast with a finger-width of peanut butter. As you can see, the life of a backpacker is not...

...Excuse me, Auckland of course. But there can be confusion, after all, the orcs would have felt very comfortable against the gray backdrop of Auckland. Peter Jackson could...

And the days when you had time to write a new Easy-Peasy-Kiwi-Squeezy entry (almost) every day! We have been in Auckland for three days now and at the moment we still feel a...

We are sitting at 'Kuala Lumpur International Airport' and our flight is not even appearing on the departure board. That probably won't happen anytime soon... The 'KL...

It's evening. We're sitting in 'Garden By The Bay' and enjoying the huge artificial trees that brightly shine above us. Suddenly, the lights go out. Power outage? A woman's...

Puuhhh (exactly the right expression for my current state of mind)...what a day! When I look back, we actually 'only' visited two attractions in Singapore today. However, these...

So what, I'll write another blog post. I'm just so excited and BESIDES we need to catch up. In other words, jet lag has won for the second time, apparently seven hours of...

"Omelette or chicken?". That's a question that probably very few of us hear when it comes to choosing breakfast. And probably the person asking the question isn't a well-dressed...

The past few days have been tough. They were days filled with expectations, days of preparation, anticipation, going crazy, and - above all - saying goodbye. We explained our...