Travelogues Wellington

The next morning I got up early, packed my things, filled up the tank, and for the first time tried to refill my water tank at a gas station. Fortunately, Rainer had picked out...

September is over - and so is our last full month in New Zealand. We fulfilled a dream and visited Hobbiton in the Shire, made friends with Sparky, the cutest one-legged bird in...

If New Zealand had a color, it would be green. We treated ourselves to a week of the greenest green: seven days of trekking on the Travers Sabine! Here we go! What was...

Today was the second full day in Wellington and as it goes... in the morning it doesn't rush and then the day goes by quickly. After breakfast, we strolled towards the Cable Car...

Today we actually did not drive a car for the first time - quite crazy. We walked through Wellington on foot, which is wonderfully easy since our hotel is right in the middle,...

Sunday, 10/13/2019 Unfortunately, I was not successful in my job search in Wellington last week. So, it was nice to get out of the city on Sunday. I went to Putangirua Pinnacles...

19.09.19 - Alex Wir verlassen den wunderschönen Ort und fahren, nachdem wir noch kurz getankt und eingekauft haben, aus Wellington heraus. Jetzt gilt es die...

09/17/19 - Alex The night is over. Relatively early, we say goodbye to the place and look for the next water station. After fulfilling our duties and "visiting" the adjacent...

The Hobbit

Slowly but surely, it really pays off to have a small network - I've been in contact with another Couchsurfer in Wellington via WhatsApp over the past few weeks. Last night, he...

The farewell today is difficult for us. The apartment was soooooo amazing. But unfortunately, the time is over. So, suitcase in the car and off we go. Before we go...

We put a record-breaking 15 blog posts online for the month of July. - Started in Palmerston North, ended in Stratford. If you look at the map, you can see that the two cities...

Water on the ice

Alle Backpacker brauchen mal ab und zu eine kleine Pause und ein Dach überm Kopf. Nicht nur, um mal wieder richtig lange und heiß duschen zu können, sondern vor allem auch, um...

Winter is here! In the month of May, it hit us hard and we had to prepare ourselves. We acquired a second warm blanket and thermal socks. Many nights in the car were only...

After New Year's in Wellington, we soon took the ferry to the South Island. The first weeks it rained a lot. Nevertheless, we were able to visit and explore many impressive...

The second day of the year started with a nasty surprise. The pumpernickel bread didn't make it. It greeted us with colorful mold. We needed an alternative. Just a ten-minute...

In the morning we drive to Picton and sit in the harbor with a coffee. We're trying to plan our remaining weeks on the North Island. We don't succeed so well and we decide to...

Simply a great day at the southernmost point of the North Island

Victoria Lookout

Being confined to the dormitory of Wellington's Youth Hostel due to bad weather, I unexpectedly have some spare time to write this article before I will go offline for the next...

It's Sunday, which means a very relaxed morning was on the agenda. You can't expect to leave the house before 10 am, we made it around 10:30 am. Then we went by car to the...

Since the last post is actually quite old and then something annoying like New Year happened: first of all a Happy New Year (2019) to everyone! New Year's Eve was relatively...

The announced freezing temperatures turned out to be true and it was really unpleasant - the night in "Masterton" was freezing cold. In the morning, we saw the full extent: the...

The first night in Wellington was one of the more restless ones. A colony of seagulls had settled on a nearby football field, making a lot of noise throughout the night. But...

Hostels. You can't avoid them on a long-term trip. Unless you have a lot of money. But somehow they are part of backpacking. They can be as different as the places you visit....

'Longest place name in the world'

After the quite exhausting march through the rocky desert, we decide to take a quieter day and spend most of the day (300 km) in the car. From Raetihi we go via Paraparaumu to...

And that's exactly why we came back to Wellington. We owed it to this city after it warmly welcomed us on our first visit. I still don't know exactly what it is, but this city...

Wrong capital. Wellington was today's destination of our journey.