First stop Auckland Viaduct. Where my wife exclaimed “It’s a wharf”!

Bucket list for New Zealand
Bucket list for New Zealand A few nights ago in Lethbridge we stayed with Amber and Ewan who are visiting New Zealand later this year. It got me to thinking about what, as a kiwi, I would suggest as a…

In search of Hobbits Part 2: A journey around the North Island
In search of Hobbits Part 2: A journey around the North Island Factoid: New Zealand is geographically around the same side as the United Kingdom without the 65 million people. We left the South Island and its 1.5 million people…

In search of Hobbits: Part 1 A journey around the South Island of New Zealand
It was nice to arrive back in New Zealand in November 2010 although a bit odd that my Canadian in-laws, Joe and Inga, met us at Christchurch airport. I’m a kiwi and it should have been the other way around…