toldi-traveller
Wir sind Hildi & Tobi und seit 1. Oktober reisen wir durch Neuseeland. In diesem Blog möchten wir euch an unserer Reise teilhaben lassen. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Lesen!
Westcoast
The West Coast of the South Island is known for its rainforests, hundreds of kilometers without civilization, its beautiful coastline and of course the changeable weather, which...
Fjordlands - Wanaka
After work means before traveling...not quite, first we had a farewell barbecue with our teams and there was an end-of-season party from the company. So we stayed in Cromwell...
Cherry Saison 23/24
When we received the request a few months ago to work as a team leader/supervisor in New Zealand for the 23/24 cherry season, we thought it would all be pretty cool. After a few...
Cherry-Break
On the cherry orchard we work as team leaders, meaning our job is to make sure the pickers pick the right cherries (size, color, quality), use their leaders correctly and don't...
Pinguin Roadtrip
We initially agreed with our winegrowing employer that we would stop working in the vineyard a week before the cherry season started. We used this week to do a road trip along...
Work in viticulture (Cromwell)
After our 3-week road trip on the South Island, with lots of wonderful impressions, we wanted to earn some money again. The offer of winegrowing work in Cromwell came in very...
Tasman bis Cromwell
After our week-long stay with Janina and Jonas in Tasman, we headed to Cromwell because our job on a cherry orchard there starts in December. Our first stop was Blenheim, where...
Tasman bei Janina & Jonas
As mentioned in the previous post, we took the camper and the ferry to the South Island to Tasman to Janina and Jonas. We even saw a few dolphins and a penguin during the ferry...
Buying a camper and camper life
What is worth waiting for....! We found and bought a campervan. In retrospect, we were really lucky because the camper was the cheapest of all the ones we looked at and was also...
Wellington
Driven by the hope of finding a campervan and the desire to leave Auckland, we traveled to Wellington. The bus ride to Wellington takes about 11 hours and is truly spectacular....
Auckland
When we arrived in Auckland, we first took care of the important organizational things: applying for an IRD number (tax identification number, without which you are not allowed...
Getting there
Our trip started in Wissembourg on October 1st. From there we took the train via Strasbourg (with a short stay) to Paris. In Paris we had to wait 5 hours to check in before we...