Tag: 2025 Australia/NZ

Written by Kim We’ve been on the go so had a slow day today. It was a bit cloudy, cool (50s in am, 60s in pm) and drizzly. We’ve only had one day in Christchurch with rain so we can’t complain. We went down to 5 Little Pigs in Huskisson’s Bay for breakfast. We sat […]

Written by Kim We picked up our car, a MG, and began the drive down the Great Pacific drive. After we got out of the city, we needed a quick break to celebrate Alex’s quick transition driving on the wrong side of the road! Some Macca’s (Mc Donald’s) This is a picturesque coastal road with […]

Written by Kim We enjoyed our last night of trivia with our new Aussie friends, Ben & Courtney. Each night we did pre dinner trivia in the Music Hall and then in the pub. We won a few times and they were excited because they said they never win when alone. It is bittersweet meeting […]

Written by Kim We arrived at the Picton port early and needed to be out for our tour at 9:15. The port is another logging port. We learned that New Zealand exports a lot of lumber for the Asian markets, primarily Japan and Korea. They make paper and furniture among other things with the lumber. […]

Written by Kim This is our second time in Wellington so we thought we should do a Lord of The Rings tour since Peter Jackson filmed a lot of the movies here and in other parts of NZ. We are not huge LOTR fans – Alex has read the books and seen the movies. I […]

Written by Kim Another day, another adventure! Today we docked in Lyttelton the port town for Christchurch. We took the complementary shuttle out of the port and picked up the local bus day pass for 6NZD ($3.40 US). The cruise line was charging $15 to go to town. We took the bus to our first […]

Written by Kim Dunedin was our first port on this trip. We had a full day in port so got off the ship and took the ship shuttle to town for $15 per person. We docked at Port Chalmers which is about a 20 min drive to Dunedin. Dunedin was settled by the Scottish first […]

Written by Kim We had a quiet day at sea yesterday. It was kind of cool only about 60 so we didn’t go to the pool like we usually will do on a sea day. We relaxed a bit and went to the top tier event in the morning. Many of our friends think we […]