The travel adventures of Mark & Vanessa Greatorex
Our flight back to Melbourne was generally uneventful, except for the fact that we hit a bit of turbulence midway which caused me to become quite ill with motion sickness. Sadly the last hour or two of my first international return flight were spent with my head in a bag, which can really put a…
Our last full day in New Zealand and the weather gods had turned on their finest for us, with brilliant blue skies, light winds and a pleasantly warm temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. Just the sort of conditions to take a long and leisurely walk around the city, to revisit some of our favourite places…
As New Year’s Day dawned and our trip began to draw to a close, we headed back towards where it all started at Christchurch, but first of all we had a couple of stops to make along the way at Kaikoura and Hanmer Springs. The road to Kaikoura follows the rugged South Pacific coastline for…