A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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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.
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Crossing Cook Strait
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 &…
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Christchurch to Picton on the Coastal Pacific
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…
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Christchurch
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…
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Queenstown to Dunedin to Christchurch
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…
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A Day In Queenstown
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.
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Day Trip To Milford Sound
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…
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Dunedin to Queenstown
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.
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Invercargill (again) to Dunedin (again)
Image heavy (again), so there’s a cut (again).
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Rakiura
Image-heavy, so I’m putting in a cut. As a general summary of my day-and-a-bit on Rakiura: I think I did pretty much everything I had the equipment & patience & capacity to do.Walked pretty much every track I could find,…
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