lindagoesnewzealand

There we sat at the airport in Christchurch, being treated like two criminals. Bibi and I were taken to separate interview rooms and questioned about our origin and our plans in...

"Off to Sydney" was our plan. Right when we arrived in Sydney, we had problems because we didn't provide a residential address. How could we? You know us by now. We usually...

Well, at the time of departure, we didn't know exactly where the trip was going. Somewhere in the north of the South Island. To be honest, we were a bit inspired by the two...

Maybe you already have an inkling of how we solved our accommodation and job problem. Right, we called our Reedy. Of course, we were allowed to work with him again. After...

One morning I woke up and found a text message from the owner of a kiwiberry orchard on my phone. We were supposed to attend an introductory meeting at 3pm that same day....

We took the ferry at the end of January to the South Island. It was clear from the beginning - we needed money. The job search was initially very difficult. We first...

January 11, 2017 I sneaked out of the room at 7am. Today, I wanted to Skype with my boyfriend for a long time and open his Christmas present. I was really excited. His...

31st December 2016 At nine o'clock in the evening, we set off for Tauranga the day before. Tired and exhausted, we spent the night in a small town between Auckland and...

The best home one could wish for. During our time at Kiwi International Hotel, we lived with two Chinese, Nick and Qun, and two Czechs, Adela and David, who also worked...

5 or 6 days work? The more days you were allowed to work, the faster you could make money. And as you all know: money doesn't stink. So almost everyone wanted to work 6 days....

Welcome to Kiwi International Hotel :) First of all, let me give you a little introduction to the team so that you can get to know my funny and not so funny colleagues...

Monday, 07.11.2016 We wanted to prepare breakfast as usual in the morning. Unfortunately, the necessary utensils were not available at the campsite. Eventually, we...

Monday, October 31, 2016 After breakfast, we headed to Te Puke at 9 o'clock. We wanted to look for a job. We both had no idea how we were going to do this with our...

Monday, October 24, 2016 Fortunately, we survived our third night in the hostel in Hamilton. We enjoyed the free breakfast one last time, took a short walk through the...

Monday, October 17, 2016 The day started silently. Bibi and I didn't need to talk to each other. We were in agreement. This will be a lazy day. We slept in, then had a...

Monday, October 10 to Wednesday, October 12, 2016: Finally. The day had come. :) Departure day. With mixed emotions, Bibi and I left at 10:15 with the Flexibus to Munich....