Itinerary 3-4 weeks New Zealand

[jontz01]

I spent NYE in Hoki and it was foookin dull as dishwater. Ended up getting a box and sitting in that big boat on the seafront on my own. Even the backpackers were holed up in their vans on their phones. I invited a couple of lads out for a toke, they sat around for about 10 mins and went back to their screens. They're a different breed these days...

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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[Mrs Miggins]

(mrsb really wants to go cos she loved The Luminaries).

I cried when I got to Hokitika because I love The Luminaries so much

 

[belboid]

I spent NYE in Hoki and it was foookin dull as dishwater. Ended up getting a box and sitting in that big boat on the seafront on my own. Even the backpackers were holed up in their vans on their phones. I invited a couple of lads out for a toke, they sat around for about 10 mins and went back to their screens. They're a different breed these days...

That's depressing, hopefully something will 'come up' while I'm there. Dunedin should be promising.

I've now booked us a night at the Arthur's Pass, so we may nip up Mt Rolleston while we're there.

 

[jontz01]

Can't go wrong with a good mountain. We has Christmas dinner at the top of one in Wanaka, was superb. Lots of people suprised to see I'd carried a full lunch and 4 beers for 4 hours up a hill.

 

[ice-is-forming]

felixthecat I'll drive it with you I've been looking and I'll either go in 2020 or 2021. The only thing I have my heart set on is seeing the southern lights from the south of the southern island. Other than that I love driving and am up for adventure I also like cake and gin

Heaps cheaper to book a hotel room for the night for two rather than one, share car hire etc.. etc.. I'd also like to go in autumn /early winter

 

[HAL9000]

Mrs Miggins has lots of great suggestions, I was in New Zealand in 2005. If you happen to be passing Dunedin, I think I hiked to the top of Mt Cargill and I thought the view was good, if I remember correctly it was a full days walk from the town centre to the top and back. I don't think there's anything special in Dunedin, so only if you're passing by.

 

[Poi E]

Just avoid adventure activities and check to see whether any tour operator you use has insurance, has a history of health and safety violations and of course any history of deaths and injuries. New Zealand is not as safe as the UK due to no right to sue for personal injury/death, dense bush and rugged terrain and the lethally changeable atrocious painful freezing worst fucking weather on the planet. I mean, the fucker can go on from 25 degrees to near zero with wind chill within half and hour.

 

[belboid]

Latest ‘NZ is odd’ discovery...

looking round the pak n save, there was an aisle for ‘lightbulbs, hardware and Manchester’. Wtf is Manchester we wondered. Eventually we found out it’s the word for linens! Bedsheets etc

weird bloody place

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Same in Aussie. All the cotton came from Manchester you see...

 

[belboid]

That’s what we worked out/guessed.

made us think, what do they call china in China?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And Brazil nuts in Brazil

 

[belboid]

And let’s not get onto french letters...