ganz-weit-weg

Day 80 - 11/28/23 Nice surprise at the airport in Frankfurt - Max, Frieda and Charlotte welcomed us at the airport early in the morning at 7.45 a.m. CONCLUSION: After...

Day 79 - 11/27/23 Our departure day. When our plane takes off, we begin a journey of 24 hours and 10 minutes until we land in Frankfurt. House/house, i.e. Sydney to Darmstadt...

Day 76 - 11/24/23 Strolling in Sydney. Day 77 - 11/25/23 Today we were in the neighborhood “The Rocks”, at the foot of the Labor Bridge, at a market that takes place...

Day 75 - 11/23/23 Congratulations Max!!!!! Today we explored the venerable Queen Victoria Market (QVM) and then drove to Bondi Beach. The QVM has an outstandingly...

Day 74 - 11/22/23 Enough waterfalls, enough mountains and valleys, enough pure nature. Immerse yourself in city life and prepare for the juggernaut of Darmstadt. Where better...

Day 71 - 11/19/23 Happy birthday (1) Matilda!!! Katoomba Falls on the railway is quite a rip off. The cog railway goes down very steeply, but the fun is over after just 200...

Day 70 - 11/18/23 Our last long day of travel. 6 hour drive from chilled Port Macquarie to the Blue Mountains to Leura near Katoomba. The accommodation is very spacious and the...

Day 68 - 11/16/23 - Bilinga Walking on the beach, enjoying a cappu/latte with muffins and cooling off in the sea (Karin) was the maximum amount of activities we did today. The...

Day 65 - 11/13/23 - Brisbane City Brisbane City - stroll and enjoy the city. A noticeable number of bicycles and electric scooters on the road. Both get along well with each...

Day 63 - 11/11/23 - Australia - hello again After a flight of about 4 hours, we returned to Australia around 8 p.m. local time, this time in Brisbane, a city with 2.7 million...

Day 61/62 - 09/10/11/23 - Good Bye New Zealand Although Christchurch has a population of 400,000, it feels rather provincial. This is obviously really good for the city,...

Day 58 - 11/6/23 - Drive to Akaroa The journey from Lake Tekapo to Akaroa takes us from 700m to 70m. The landscapes through which we drive are still impressively beautiful and...

Day 56 - 11/04/23 - Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki Happy birthday, Dieter. Karin Kachelfrau studied the weather radar with utmost concentration and determined the perfect time...

Day 55 - 11/03/23 Today was a travel day for us - 6 hours from Te Anau to Lake Tekapo with mostly good weather and again wonderful landscapes. Lake Tekapo is one of the dry...

Day 54 - 11/2/23 We left early to make the 2 hour drive (120 km) in time - but it was worth it. We went out on a smaller boat. This had the advantage that it could get close to...

Day 53 - 11/01/23 An attraction that is impressive. The glowworms illuminate the ceiling and transform the dark cave, into which you have to climb about 250m deep into a...

Day 52 - 10/31/23 The journey from Queenstown to Te Anau took us about 2.5 hours in good weather. Te Anau is, so to speak, the hub for excursions to the famous Milford Sound...

Day 51 - 10/30/23 A leisurely trip with the cable car up the mountain “Bob's Peak”, which towers 400m above us, with a great view of Queenstown Lake below. Luckily with the...

Day 50 - 10/29/23 From Wanaka we drove to Queentstown via the Crown Range Road. As a stopover for our cappu/latte we chose Arrowtown, a pretty little historic gold mining town....

Today we decided to give our legs some rest and walked along Lake Wanaka, past a place set up for a wedding ceremony. By the time we got back, we had walked around 16,000 steps...

Day 47 - 10/26/23 ...or several DAISS, as the New Zealanders say. In the last two days there have been heavy rains, especially in the nights - but especially last night with...

Day 46 - 10/25/23 Not just the Sisssssiii but now also the Fraaaanz….. The Franz Josef Glacier - one of the flagships of the South Island should be our destination today. ...

Day 44 - 10/23/23 Labor Day in New Zealand - every year on the 4th Monday in October. Many shops are closed, but grocery stores, kiosks/cafés/restaurants and gas stations are...

Days 41-43 - 10/20/22/23 At some point I miscounted. If you take 09.09.23, the day of our departure, as “ZERO”, then we have already reached the 43rd day (wine). In any case,...

Day 38/39 - 10/18/23 - HALF TIME Yesterday we first visited Nelson, a town with around 50 residents, had our daily capu/latte with cake and then went back to our beautiful...

Day 37 - 10/17/23 After heavy overnight rain, we set off along the coast via Queen Charlotte Drive to Nelson in bright sunshine. The view that opens up to us is beautiful and...

Day 36 - 10/16/23 Today we left the North Island with the ferry from Wellington to Picton (South Island). The comfort on these ferries is pretty good and in contrast to the...

Day 35 - 10/15/23 Today we took the cable car to Kelburn (district of Wellington) - 280m high and walked through the botanical gardens back to the city of Wellington. The...

Day 33 - 10/13/23 - from the Beatles to Greta van Fleet Today we set off from New Plymouth to Palmerston North, a journey of around 4 hours (our pace). We chose the route along...

Day 32 - 10/12/23 We actually wanted to climb the south face of Taranaki today. However, the weather put a damper on our plans here and so we were able to leave the ice ax and...