Arghhhh! There’s a stormtrooper in the sink!

When we were first thinking about leaving everything behind a decade ago, New Zealand was uncharted territory for us, a dream.  Since then, we not…

Christchurch we come – looking for recreation, attending Mini-Olympics of Anna’s class, a piano …

We had an awesome week in Golden Bay and we managed to stay offline for a full 7 days! We didn’t even turn on the…

Funny name for a bunch of houses along the road between Farewell spit and Collingwood. And a good spot to view all sorts of sea…

A short 30 min walk up to the lighthouse between Cape Farewell and the start of the Farewell sandspit.

A very nice early morning walk through multiple sheep paddocks with many many baby sheep at this time of the year. Next stop on the…

What to do on a rainy day? Check for museums! (As museums are usually really worth visiting in NZ.) We didn’t arrive with high expectations on that…

The Whanganui inlet is the northernmost large inlet on the west coast of the south island. A beautiful landscape but only to be accessed via…

If you turn right at the Whanganui inlet, the gravel road ends at the Kaituna lakes. A picturesque secluded spot of native forest in the…