24/1/2012 I had arranged with Lesley, the woman I was staying with in Christchurch, to drive around the city in the car. I wanted to take a few photos of the devastation of the area for the article I was writing. There were quite a lot of buildings that were half falling down or half… Read more »
Trips To New Zealand
24/1/2012 Tuesday morning I went back into the i-site on Rolleston Avenue and booked the Akaroa trip. They also asked me if I wanted to do the Black Cat Harbour Tour, which was a two hour trip on a catamaran out into Akaroa bay to see Hector dolphins. I wasn’t sure whether I would do… Read more »
23/1/2012 After I’d been to the i-site, I went into the Canterbury Museum to use the loos and unexpectedly, I came across an exhibition with some of the best costumes of the World of Wearable Art show there. The exhibition was called “Off The Wall” and was on from 2 December 2011 to 18 March… Read more »
23/1/2012 I couldn’t sleep the first night in Christchurch. Maybe it was because of the jetlag, or the cup of tea I drank before I went to bed or because there was a lot to take in with the whirlwind tour I was given but it took me ages to drift off to sleep. While… Read more »
22/1/2012 There’s a friend of mine, called Papa Tipua that I’ve had contact with over the last year or so via email, who lives in Wellington. I mentioned to him that I was aiming to volunteer while I was in Christchurch, in return for a bed there. But even after contacting the Student Volunteer Army… Read more »
22/1/2012 I was hoping to get an article published about Christchurch and the effect the earthquakes have had on the people there before I wrote this Christchurch blog. The thing is, that the information that I’m going to be writing about Christchurch in this blog is very similar to what’s in the article, only a… Read more »
30/10/2009 I was doing research on Lake Tekapo, trying to decide whether to go there or not and while looking at the map, saw that there was a river there, called the Macaulay River. I thought that was very interesting, as my family name is Mc Auley, even though it’s spelled differently and I wanted… Read more »
20/10/2009 The last part of my holiday was in Paihia, on the very north part of the North Coast of N.Z. Even though it’s a coastal town, it’s still totally different to Coromandel. Luckily the town hasn’t been overdeveloped and like many places in New Zealand, still not too touristy, or commercialised. I decided to… Read more »
13/10/2009 Well, I’m in Coromandel town, on the Coromandel Peninsula at the moment. It’s a gorgeous, little town on the west coast of the peninsula and my God, the scenery and the coastline coming in on the bus from Thames to Coromandel was to die for. The road followed the coast, which was rocky and… Read more »
7/10/2009 I was lucky to get to Rotorua at all, as the road to there, via Taupo, had been closed for the previous 3 days, with bad snow! The people in Napier said it was the first time in 25 years, that the road has been closed for so long.On the way there, on the… Read more »
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