Travelogues Canterbury

Stormy Weather at Mount Cook, and We're Right in the Middle...

Today was the day, our first day in New Zealand with rainy weather. Thanks to our genius planning (which Tobi actually does alone), it was almost no problem as we spent most of...

The small village of Tekapo (300 inhabitants) is located just one lake away from Lake Pukaki, on Lake Tekapo. This is also a glacier lake and therefore has the same beautiful...

The final stop on our New Zealand journey is Christchurch. Many old buildings remind us of England in earlier times, but they were heavily damaged during the severe earthquakes of...

Day 50 Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. That could also be the title of this entry. Since the last time I checked in, a lot has happened and we have come a long way. Through...

Back on a real road, or at least on a highway, we raced to Christchurch the next day. We were very excited about Christchurch, as this city had suffered great damage from the...

The sun rose and the car was frosted. Fortunately, the door opened easily. However, we were slightly shocked when we saw the layer of ice that surrounded our car. We struggled...

We have arrived on the East Coast of the South Island - in Timaru. One big highlight of the city is definitely the little blue penguins, which nest on the public beach. On the...

We eagerly made our way to Kaikoura, as it is teeming with animals on land and in the water. We immediately liked Kaikoura from the first moment we arrived. We went straight to...

Arthur's Pass - 'Death's Corner'

On January 11th, we said goodbye to rainy Kaikoura. The weather didn't get better on the way to Hanmer Springs. A huge cloud cover hung over us. Because of the bad weather, we...

On Wednesday, we started the day relaxed.. slept in a bit, enjoyed a leisurely breakfast, used the internet to plan more stops/accommodations (especially for Thailand), had some...

Kia ora means hello in Maori! ((-: New Zealand greeted us on Wednesday afternoon with three days of non-stop rain. 🙈 We mainly used this time to relax, sleep in, put our feet...

Back in Christchurch, we stayed in the hostel for one more night, as you already know. We both wanted to have a warm shower and a proper bed before getting into the van....

At 6:30am I wake up, but doze off until 8:00am. Then Eric and I decide to get up. For breakfast, we have Pam's cereal and black tea. We leave the hostel around 9:30am. I show...

For the first days in Christchurch, as I mentioned in my last post, we booked 5 nights at the YHA Backpackers Hostel in Christchurch. We were both very happy to have a real bed...

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...

A great national park with many cool opportunities to go skiing.

Hello dear ones, I'm back again and another day is coming to an end. However, today wasn't quite my day. It started already last night, when the fire alarm suddenly went off at...

Peter's Lookout

Hello everyone, my first day in Twizel is coming to an end. After waking up early this morning and having a delicious breakfast, my first 'working day' began. Penny, one of the...

Hello dear ones, I'm back with my new update from Christchurch. Although not much has happened in the past few days, there is still a little bit to tell. After my last blog...

Flight Auckland/Christchurch - Oamaru - Dunedin

03.01. - 05.01.2017 CHRISTCHURCH / HANMER SPRINGS / WESTPORT / GREAT COAST ROAD / GREYMOUTH New year - new country! So we were off to New Zealand - the second major stage of...

I’m not quite sure why, but somehow Twizel seems like a strange name for a town ... it certainly stands out from the previous place names. On the internet, we learn that Twizel...

Although I have had my agreement for New Zealand since December, I only found out in mid-June which project and thus where I will be living in New Zealand: I'm going to Living...

After our ferry docked on the South Island at around 7:30 p.m., we drove the winding road to the Momorangi Bay Campground. There we ate dinner, showered and did a load of...

We continue on to a peninsula near Christchurch. Roughly comparable for Germans with THE holiday island of Rügen. Unfortunately, we didn't think enough about the fact that it's...

On the way to Christchurch we passed Lake Tekapo, which is best known for the lupine fields on the shore (the purple flowers). But they only bloom for a short time from...

I arrive late at 5:45 a.m. After going through immigration I wait in vain at the baggage carousel...my duffel bag probably didn't come with me. But it wouldn't be a Haese trip...