Limited movements to report today. After a night best forgotten and a morning trip to the local doctors, we’ve (I’ve) been resting and recouperating at what’s turned out to be the lap of luxury. Clare did a fine job of sourcing us a place for the night (and most of the day as well!) in… Read more

Well who would have thought it. After multiple trips into the depths of Africa and remote mountain journeys in and above the jungles of South America, I end up getting what has felt like my worst ever ‘travel bug’ here in the civilised, clean and pleasant land of New Zealand!  However, what better place for… Read more

Woke up feeling glad that we’d not gone sea kayaking! Then groaned a bit, rolled over and went back to sleep. Had an extra long lie-in before attempting a bit of breakfast. We’ve decided to head further north to ‘the end of the road’ and a climbing area called Paynes Ford, then maybe go for… Read more

It was a pretty spectacular drive over the hills to get out of the Marlbrough Region. Eventually the road came right back down to the seaside at Nelson, where we stopped briefly to fill up our water tank. From Nelson, we continued along the coast to Motueka. We stopped for ‘Kafe und Kuchen’ by the… Read more

Happy Birthday Pappa Martin!  Given our poor nights sleep, we were quite glad to be having to get an early start today. The morning was quiet (at last!) and fresh. We boarded our water taxi at 7.30am and sped off across the sound. It took over an hour to get round to ‘Ship Cove’ where… Read more

The day dawned bright and blue again. The wind had dropped and we were woken by the sound of local surfers turning up for morning session at our campspot – ‘The Meatworks’. This time we were happy to spectate as we had our breakfast. There were some good guys to watch! They were both good… Read more