We spent the last couple of days in Auckland with our lovely “adoptive New Zealand parents”. After taking looking at the New Zealand night sky for the last time, we left Scott Road at 5am – the trip to Auckland Airport took just under an hour.
For the next few weeks, Barbara and I will be traveling in Australia. I hope to update this blog a little more often then. :) So far we had a couple of nice weeks in Auckland and Bay of Islands.
Long time no post… Well, big news over here: Sadly our time in New Zealand will be coming to an end (for now anyways) and Babs and I will be moving back to Germany!
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 found the following calendar on an iPhone. Two of the translations of NZ holidays are just hilarious!!! I will try to translate it back into english for those who don’t speak German.
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 […]
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.
