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On the Selling of Boats
The process of selling Villa stretches all the way back into November, when we arrived in New Zealand and started[…]
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Last Days with Villa Veritas
The last part of our journey with Villa involved a lot of waiting. We had accepted an offer, but these[…]
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In Which We See Lots of Animals, or the Auckland Zoo and Sheep World
We got back from our trip to the south island, and still had a couple of days to kill before[…]
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Ferry North; a Tongariro Drive-By
Our ferry back to the mainland was scheduled for 11am, so we had plenty of time to catch breakfast in[…]
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Takaka, and back to Marlborough
We woke up in Redwood Valley, and spent an hour enjoying the view. Captain was fascinated by all the bird[…]
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Pancake Rockin’ the West Coast
We left Franz Josef driving north along the coast, and passed through the towns of Hari Hari and Ross. It[…]
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Hunting Wild Glaciers
On our last morning in Queenstown, the clouds finally cleared over the mountains to see us off. We drove north,[…]
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Milford Sound
After two days of cancellations, we woke up crossing our fingers really hard, and called in to check on the[…]
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Wanaka, Arrowtown, Queenstown
After a short walk and an abortive attempt to climb a tree, we piled back into the car and drove[…]
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