Posts in Category: New Zealand
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Dunedin And Nugget Point
We’ve spent the last few days on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand in southwest corner of South Island which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to four national parks. In the last post we visited Doubtful Sound, one of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth. It will be hard […]
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Doubtful Sound and Queenstown
This is my fourth post from New Zealand’s South Island as part of the Adventures Abroad tour of this amazing country. In the first two we visited the Marlborough wine country, took a train ride through the Southern Alps, glimpsed Franz Josef glacier and took a jet boat up the Haast River before arriving in […]
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Millbrook Coronet Course Hole by Hole
Alison and I have a free day in Queenstown in the middle of the Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand and have opted to play golf at the Millbrook Resort in nearby Arrowtown. This is a five star resort on 650 acres of prime real estate at the foot of the Remarkables Mountain Range. It […]
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Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand are the Maori and English names for one of the largest and most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the planet (for brevity’s sake I’ll just refer to it as Te Wahipounamu hereafter). Covering a full ten percent of the land mass of the country, it contains four […]
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South Island New Zealand with Adventures Abroad
This is the first of a number of posts from New Zealand’s South Island which Alison and I visited on a March 2025 Adventures Abroad tour led by the one and only Chris Tripodi. In the last post I described the highlights of two visits to the capital city of Wellington. In this post I’m […]
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Wellington – New Zealand’s Quaint & Happening Capital
The title of this post may seem at first glance to be contradictory. How can a place be both quaint and happening at the same time; yet that’s exactly how Alison and I felt about Wellington on our two visits to New Zealand’s capital city. The quaintness comes from its very Victorian appearance that includes […]
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Lake Taupo and Other North Island Wonders
This is the third full day of the March 2025 Adventures Abroad New Zealand tour and if it’s anything as action packed as yesterday’s Maori themed events, it will be something to remember. We will be travelling from Rotorua through the most volcanic area of the country on a portion of the Thermal Explorer Highway […]
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A Maori Welcome – Glowworms, Geysers & More
It is the second full day of the March 2025 Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand led by our friend Chris Tripodi, the world’s cheeriest guide. On the first day we explored New Zealand’s dynamic metropolis Auckland, visiting a number of different neighbourhoods, climbing Mount Eden to view the city from its highest point and […]
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Cape Reinga and Waipuoa Forest
This is my fourth and final post from New Zealand’s amazing Northland Peninsula, an area usually overlooked by international tourists, to their detriment as I explained in this post from the Bay of Islands. For Canadians and Nova Scotians in particular, the town of Waipu, founded by Scots from New Scotland, should be a must […]