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kate
Northumberland
Travelling to New Zealand for the trip of a lifetime
Interests: cafes, beaches, bikes, mountains, scenery, people
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Back for one week and getting bored with white
and cold. I'd fogotten just how cold minus temperatures can be. That's all Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Travelling
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Home, cold home! (2'C)
Posted Mar 21, 2013 at Travelling
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Back in th UK now, at my parents house, driving...
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Travelling
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And so, of course, this glorious trip must come to...
Posted Mar 14, 2013 at Travelling
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The view from the top!
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Travelling
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35 years ago, teacher and potter Barry Brickell...
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Travelling
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This is the best railway I have ever been on!
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Travelling
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Not sure what the health and safety department...
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Travelling
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The Driving Creek Railway - one of the little...
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Travelling
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I'm staying in a nice place in Rotorua now. I can...
Posted Mar 8, 2013 at Travelling
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I have about a million photos besides these if...
Posted Mar 8, 2013 at Travelling
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OK, lets stop pretending this is a blog about my...
Posted Mar 8, 2013 at Travelling
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Last night, after some serious consideration, I...
Posted Mar 8, 2013 at Travelling
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Now that I am at Lake Taupo, it's all about water...
Now that I am at Lake Taupo, it's all about water and geothermal activity! I know, you can feel another geography lesson coming on! But this place is all about the geography. It's amazing. Two tectonic plates, volcanoes, earthquakes all that jive, so a very unstable country, with all sorts... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Travelling
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Water is what it's all about! The Aratiata Dam is...
Water is what it's all about! The Aratiata Dam is opened four times a day to flood the river for the many hydro electric power stations downstream. Peter Jackson filmed this to use in the scene where the Black Riders try to cross the river to get Frodo 'give us... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Travelling
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The inappropriately named 'Craters of the Moon'...
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Travelling
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the tourist dollar is fought over with an alarming...
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Travelling
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I went out on a sailing ship to see the Maori...
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Travelling
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Here is the Huka Falls, not an impressive drop,...
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Travelling
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So, I have left hot, noisy Wellington, and am now...
So, I have left hot, noisy Wellington, and am now north near Lake Taupo which meant an eight hour drive through some amazing country, mountains, the volcanic plain, real volcanoes and now I am near the bubbling mud pools, hot springs, geysers all that lovely stuff. The air smells of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2013 at Travelling
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So, Wellington. Big, busy, noisy, CITY, all the...
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Travelling
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and this is the first view of Wellington from the...
Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Travelling
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This is the last little bit of Marlborough Sound,...
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Travelling
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Before I left Golden Bay, I spent a happy time...
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Travelling
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I've stayed at some interesting hostels, last...
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Travelling
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