Posts in Tag: New Zealand
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Napier – New Zealand’s Art Deco City
In the last post from New Zealand Alison and I said good bye to our Adventures Abroad travelling companions as well as our tour leader and good friend Chris Tripodi as they headed for Australia while we flew to Wellington to continue our tour of the North Island. I described our time in Wellington in […]
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Mount Cook Flyover – Best Ending Ever
T.S.Eliot famously wrote that the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Obviously he had never been on an Adventures Abroad tour which always aspires to end with a bang and this New Zealand tour is no exception. On this final post from the March 2025 tour, our group is going […]
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Moeraki Boulders, Oamaru & Geraldine
Alas, we are only a few days from wrapping up this phenomenal tour through New Zealand with Adventures Abroad led by one my all time favourite good guys, Chris Tripodi. If you ever get a chance to travel with him, grab it. In the last post we had just a great day exploring the Otago […]
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Otago Peninsula – One of New Zealand’s Finest Day Trips
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand we landed in the southern city of Dunedin which is the gateway to one of New Zealand’s must visit places, the Otago Peninsula. In this post we’ll spend the day exploring Otago starting with a visit to New Zealand’s only castle and following […]
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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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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 […]