I was just one of the many Cantabrians who took a breather from the tiring after shakes we%u2019re still experiencing in Christchurch on a daily basis and headed over the Alpine Fault line to the West Coast to join in the stomach-challenging fun at the annual Hokitika Wildfoods Festival!
It%u2019s been going for 22 years now - a celebration of little Hokitika and the wild foods...
I truly had forgotten how beautiful New Zealand really can be. Just stunning!
Was nice to escape the constant aftershocks we here in Christchurch are still experiencing on a daily basis and disappear further afield ....albeit for a short time.
My boyfriends work is out of action after the February 22 Earthquake so he has gone where the work is - for him down South. My work (10 minutes from the...
ANZAC Day 2009 I started.
I got on my crappy mountainbike and rode out of London.
3 days short of 20 months I will finish this bloody long bike ride of mine that you have all supported me through and by now, SURELY must be sick of hearing about?!
22 countries (and a few oceans)...yes I am in New Zealand, but now I'm heading on down, South of the Bombays, to the Mainland, Canterbury, Christchurc...
It's all a bit surreal that I'm here, on a cargo ship, winging my way across the Tasman Sea - across the ditch, that infamous trough of water that separates Australia from New Zealand. I was beginning to think this day would never come.
It's all a bit surreal to realise that the next land I'm going to see, going to be stepping foot on will be 'The Land of the Long White Cloud' New Ze...
The Southern Most Point of Mainland OzDec 04, 2010
When I get an idea in my head, I don't like to fail. I've become a real 'tick the box' person.
I like to achieve. Probably because I have been such an underachiever my whole life.
I'd looked at my Australian map about a week prior and that's when it dawned on me %uFFFD I'm so close! If I had started this leg of my journey at the Northern most tip of the Australian mainland (Cape York) %uFFFD w...
