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Category: Sabbatical

  • Wellington to Rotorua by Coach

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    Unlike the other times I’ve caught a coach recently, this one isn’t me getting on at the start and off at the end of the trip, so I’m taking the Wellington to Tauranga coach, but getting off in Rotorua. I’m only mentioning this because it meant that I had to double check which coach I…

  • Wellington

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    Ahhh, but which version? The Depeche Mode original, or the Lacuna Coil cover? Down by the waterfront, there are these things, which I assumed were artworks. And they are. But they’re also public toilets.

  • Crossing Cook Strait

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    OK, so I’m starting this one the day before, with the arrival into Picton. I could have booked the ferry for that afternoon, or even that evening, but I wasn’t sure how much wiggle room was needed between train & ferry, and I kind of like Picton, so I stayed the night at a place…

  • Christchurch to Picton on the Coastal Pacific

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    I slept badly, which wasn’t great. Not entirely sure why, though concern over getting to the station on time probably played a major part. The Christchurch station isn’t in the middle of the town, unlike a lot of others, and the hotel booked a shuttle for me; I’d not realised that the Super Shuttles operation…

  • Christchurch

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    There’s a bunch of images, you should be used to it by now. Part of the goal for Christchurch was to just stop for a while, because I’ve been doing a lot of things, and while that’s fun, it’s also tiring, and it makes it harder to plan out the next things. Another part was…

  • Queenstown to Dunedin to Christchurch

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    That was a really long day of sitting on a bus. The same bus went all the way, but it was scheduled as two separate trips, so I had to collect & then re-check the big bag. It was by no means a bad trip, but I’m glad I paid the few extra dollars for…

  • A Day In Queenstown

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    A day with nothing specific planned, so after a wander out along the lake on one side of town, I rode the Gondola to look at the view from high up. And then went on the Luge.

  • Day Trip To Milford Sound

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    This one is extremely image heavy. No big surprise there, I grant you, but you’ve been warned. It was amazing, but also a long day, and I think a chunk of the passengers fell asleep on the way back; I know I nodded off a few times.

  • Dunedin to Queenstown

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    Oh look, a cut because of images. That’s a surprise. This was another travel day, though not an early-start day, thankfully, and I’ve got a better idea of where to kill time in Dunedin now.

  • Invercargill (again) to Dunedin (again)

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    Image heavy (again), so there’s a cut (again).