A small town in the remote South of the South Island, far away from everything where the sea is as blue as it has always…

Garston, Athol, Five Rivers, Lumsden, Dipton, Winton, Invercargil. Some of the townships are just names on blue boards that fly by the highway, others feature…

2013 has been wet and cold so far, particularly the last night. Frost and snow striked the Alps and all the mountain ranges are topped…

Walked through Douglas fir forest then open grassland to the Basket of Dreams sculpture, built on Te Tapu-nui (Queenstown Hill) to commemorate the millennium. From…

Back in Queenstown – not only because it is _the_ event location for a proper silvester party but there was no other place to get…

Even without the ocean, the landscape is stunning. As it was rainy we drove down that Milford Road once again and picked some spots to…

Several lookouts, recreation areas, walking tracks and information boards make it difficult to be at the harbor in time. The enchanted Mirror Lakes, the Eglington…

Two nights at the Abba Motel (80ies here we come, in more than one regard)(the hotel standard in NZ can be really zero stars sometimes)…

The adventure programme in Queenstown is overwhelming and not always a thing for kids: The Shotover River Rafting, the Bungee Jumping, Paragliding, etc … there…

The Rivers in the Queenstown area are renowned for their gold findings in the late 18th century, there has been a goldrush throughout NZ, when…