Haha, I had to strain an online dictionary to come up with an english word for the German “Minigolf”. Thought I had heard mini putt…

Gisborne has a special feel to it, not quite a big city but a very long way from one end to the other and our…

Not many people seem to go to Urewera, and I wonder if it is too far away, to many km on gravel road or is…

The city with a lighthouse at downtown. There are only two motels there and we tried them both, each a night and both of them…

A winding road, not small, but with all these log trucks a neverending story … when we had finally overtaken two big trucks and a…

Our Lady of Lourdes, a church by NZ architect John Scott, got our full attention in Havelock North while we skipped everything else there (had…

An afternoon without a real goal other than the next motel at Napier, with time to spend on driving, chatting and listening to the kid’s…

Petriefied shells and mudwormholes, colourful sandstone, quartz and lime pebbles of all sizes can be found here. The long, brown thick sandy beach is surely…

If there were a hill with a very special name in a remote part of New Zealand, a place so far away from everything that…

The road was not as long as to Cape Palliser and the landscape very different to what we’ve seen here before. Many non endemic trees…