Muriwai Beach is a place at the west coast, just 35 km northwest of Auckland, where you have a long beach of black sand and nices waves to go (or practice) surfing. It also is the home of a colony of a few thousand gannets.
My first day in Auckland was quite fun. I met CouchSurfer Brent from Canada (he was on the same flight from LA as I was) and we shared the pain of going through all those immigration and customs screening. Taking the shuttle from the airport into downtown Auckland, we first went to Auckland Central Backpackers […]
Saturday was my travel day. I flew from Montana via Denver to Los Angeles and then boarded Air New Zealands NZ5 to Auckland. My backbag didn’t though! I already was informed in LA, that my bag still was in Denver. (Strange thing, that United Airlines or Denver Airport or whoever wasn’t able to transfer the […]
I am only uploading some of all those pictures I take into this blog. There are more, though. :-)
Since I’ve never been to Montana nor Yellowstone National Park, I decided I would visit Ginny in Missoula, Montana and rent a car and drive down to Yellowstone. Ginny and Ron moved back to Montana after I had been at there place in Chico, CA two years ago. Even though we just spent two days […]
Even though I’ve been to the zoo in Omaha a few times, it’s always fun to go there again. They’ve added a new butterfly house since I’ve been there last about two years ago. The butterflies are swirrling all around you and you have to watch your steps since they are also landing on the […]
United Airlines started to charge extra for every bag you check in (on US domestic flights). This results in almost everybody taking their stuff as carry-on luggage which makes the overhead compartments in the cabin as full as never before. Especially on those small regional express planes they take your bags and put them into […]
Once you made the decision to leave your home for a longer period of time, you need to figure out how you want to organize things. Selling your car and finding someone to stay at your flat while you are gone is just one of the many parts there are. You need to know that […]
When you are looking for places to stay on a trip like this, you always have several options. The probably easiest one clearly is to just look at hotels. The downside to this -except of the price – is that you will be pretty much on your own and probably won’t get to know any […]
Liebe Freunde und Bekannte, liebe Familie, nun ist es es also soweit: Der Tag meines Abfluges naht. Am Dienstag, den 21. Oktober wird um 12:50 mein Flieger hoffentlich pünktlich von Frankfurt aus starten – zuerst nach London, dann weiter mit der Air New Zealand nach L.A. In den Vereinigten Staaten werde ich einen “Zwischenstopp” von […]
Die Idee reifte schon länger vor sich hin, aber konkret wurde es um Ostern nachdem ich meinen neuen Reisepaß erhielt und im Internet ein working holiday Visum beantragt habe. Das war Ostersamstag. Schnell wieder vergessen, dass ich dieses Formular wirklich abgeschickt habe, war ich sehr erstaunt am Mittwoch (also nur vier Tage später ) eine […]
I was coming into Saint Petersberg from Helsinki via train. This was a nice and comfortable way to travel compared to a busride as you can freely move around the train and since they discontinued any ferry connections. The ride takes about 7 hours and a one way ticket costs about 60 EUR. Return trip […]
