Walking across New Zealand- the Coast to Coast Walkway
How often can you say you’ve walked across a country, from one coast to the other, in one day? Not too often I suspect, but in New Zealand, you can. You can do this...
Category: New Zealand
A day on the Routeburn Track
I get a kick every time I tell people how the Routeburn Track got its name. The Routeburn Track- one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks- started out as a trail in the 1860s...
Postcards from Southland, New Zealand
I’ve got this thing about going as far north or as far south as I can. Eight months ago, I stood at Cape Point, South Africa. At 3,900 miles (6,248km) away from the South Pole,...
One Tree Hill
I’ve been counting my footsteps here in New Zealand. It takes me 701 steps in about six and a half minutes to reach Cornwall Park from where I stay in Auckland. Next to Cornwall...
A short walk in Kaikoura
I love walking. I can walk for miles without realising I’ve been doing so and it’s only when I stop, either when I’m back at my room or during a chocolate break that my...
One good day in Christchurch
This was a mission like no other. I hadn’t eaten any spicy food for five days and I needed to have some really quickly. I was in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was winter,...
Kaikoura
Kaikoura, New Zealand, is a great little place. It’s not very large at all- you can cover the entire town on foot in under 15 minutes. That’s of course, provided you don’t stop in...
100% Pure
I haven’t been to very many countries but of all the places I’ve been to, my all-round favourite has to be New Zealand. If I were to migrate, it would probably be to NZ,...
Spin cycle in a zorb
It all started with a push. “Are you ready?” the guy asked. I gave him the thumbs-up. With that, he pushed me down the hill, a big grin on his face. As...
Hit by a fluke
It was the strangest backpackers’ hostel I’d ever seen. Everyone was in their 60s. None of the usual scruffy, young types I could relate to and have meaningful conversations with. The music...
