A day in a minute. :)
This year I had the pleasure to be on Emirates EK413 on my trip from New Zealand to Germany. This flight number stands for the connection from Auckland to Dubai via Sydney. Aircraft: Emirates Airbus A380! Travel time: 19hr 45min… (plus an additional 7 hours from Dubai to Germany)
I’ve been in the Hawkes Bay area about 3 or 4 times since I live in New Zealand. – And I’ve never made it to Cape Kidnappers yet. :( At first I didn’t know that you could only walk to the cape at low tide. Then low tide was always at the wrong time of […]
We went to Castlepoint last night and I spent the evening and early morning taking pictures :) Too bad though, that they switch off the light of the lighthouse at 7am!
Mike has been doing a pot-luck dinner party at his home here in Wellington every Tuesday Night for more than 11 years now. We did a few little interviews on the 11th birthday. Here’s the Tuesday Night Dinner 11th Birthday Movie!
Road Rules in New Zealand don’t allow you to ride any motorbike with more than 50cc, if you just have a ‘normal’ car driver licence. (That’s the same in Germany, it’s the same almost anywhere in the world). This means, I can’t ride Barbaras 150cc scooter (even after asking her for approval ;-) ). In […]
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 […]
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.
Remember how stunned I was, when I got my working holiday visa in just 4 days? Well, this time, NZ immigration even topped that!
I was skiing in July! :-) Granted: Mt Ruapehu is a small ski area – at least compared to European and North American fields. There are two fields on each side of the mountain: Turoa and Whakapapa. They are not networked, though. :(
I moved into a new apartment last weekend! And if I say new, I mean new! – brand-new! The construction of the building finished about two weeks ago. The owners of the apartments got their keys on May 13th and even they were not allowed to access the building before that!
This afternoon we had one of the “bigger” ones: 4.1 Richter magnitude. At first it felt like a heavy truck passing by – everything just shook slightly. 3 Seconds later you could feel the main quake and also see the computer screens shake. Nothing scary, but still a reminder of where we live. Details. PS: […]
