After leaving Wellington on Thursday evening we went up SH2 via Masterton towards Napier. We stopped about 1.5 hours before Napier to spend the night in our comfy van. After breakfast at Napiers Waterfront on Friday morning, we went back on the road driving up to Gisborne. A short stop at almost wind-still Tutira lakes […]
Here are some highlights, but I put up more photos at my web gallery: Coromandel/Christmas South Island West coast – from Nelson to Franz Josef Wanaka & Queenstown Milford Sounds East coast – from Dunedin to Christchurch Marlborough
Plans are made to change them, right? Well, so we did! :) Originally we planned to: * take the Overlander train from Wellington up to Auckland on the 19th. * have a rental car for a week, driving around coromandel * spend Christmas with Barbaras family and friends in Auckland * fly down to Christchurch […]
Babs ordered some macro filters to put in-front of a 52mm lens. I used them with my Canon EF 70-300mm. Here are some of the results. Arn’t those neat? :)
A few people asked me lately which airline (and route) I would choose to go from Europe to New Zealand. Well, to be honest I don’t know… :) But I can try to outline my experiences for the airlines/routes I’ve flown so far – which are only Lufthansa, Air New Zealand and Qantas.
I used the train to get from Frankfurt to where I had to go in northern Germany. Despite the early saturday morning (when you really shouldn’t expect too much trouble or delays) the InterCity Express arrived at Frankfurt Airport being already 15 minutes late. When we were finally on our way towards cologne, we were […]
I finally got a chance to go through my photos from San Francisco… :) Barbara’s got some more! :)
Our trip to germany was quite busy so I didn’t get to update my blog… Not that I’ve been posting a lot lately anyway…. ;-) We’ve met each others families and friends and all went well :) Booking a Lufthansa flight however has been my first and will be my last time. Traveling with their […]
Just two (2) days to go then we will be on our way to Germany. It will be nice to have a couple weeks of warmth even though the weather is quite friendly this winter. (my kiwi friends say it’s been the worst winter ever though…) We will be at the airport in MUC Sunday […]
