On Wednesday the plan was to see some Viking burial stones at Lindholm Høje, visit a highly recommended beach at Løkken and finish off at Grennen where the North Sea and Baltic Sea meet. Despite rain overnight it was a drier start to the day, so we spent a good amount of time looking around …
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Wind, rain and Danes
After driving up from Hamburg yesterday, we stayed the night in the tiny village Husum-Ballum in (or near) Waddensea National Park. The weather was pretty terrible overnight with the wind rocking the camper and rain clattering on the roof. We woke up to slightly better weather though and after a light breakfast we hit the …
On the road again
We’re back off on our travels again. This time with our four legged friend Yala (a three year old Romanian rescue). We’re planning to travel around Scandanavia, but as we’ve given up flying (we had our fair share on our last trip) we’ve driven to Hamburg to pick up the camper. The camper is called …
Ayubowan Sri Lanka!
We arrived in Sri Lanka after a very long flight from Christchurch by way of Singapore. We were met at the airport by our guide and driver “Sam” Samarshinge, who was very polite at formal at first, but we got to know him a lot better over the next two weeks. We were welcomed again …
So long New Zealand and thanks for all the fish!
Only three days left in New Zealand and still so much left to see and do! Our next stop was the famous Fairlie Bakery to fuel up on pastries for a day of adventure before heading for a stroll around the rhododendron gardens down the road in Geraldine. Then we set off north along Route …
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Cromwell and Mount Cook
We had four days to get to Christchurch and two potential routes. The first option was to head south to Invercargill, before driving along the east coast road to Dunedin. The second option was to head north east through the central mountain belt to Mount Cook before meeting the coast further north. Having sought advice …
Water, water everywhere at Milford Sound
At the end of our Routeburn Track hike we were picked up at The Divide by a coach that, after it had dropped off a couple of hikers going in the opposite direction to us, was completely empty apart from the driver. He was a very friendly and knowledgeable chap and he pointed out to …
Queenstown and the Routeburn Track
Our regular readers may have noted the numerous day segments of New Zealand’s great walks and rides that we had so far enjoyed on our trip. Whilst these had all been excellent, both of us were keen to get the full experience by completing an entire Great Walk, and over the next few days we …
Haast Pass and Wonderful Wanaka
When we finished our trip down the west coast, we stopped briefly at the town of Haast, which one of our guidebooks described as the middle of nowhere. It definitely felt pretty remote with only a few farms along the dead end road further down the coast. We chose to avoid the detour and head …
Getting wet in the Buller River and the West Coast
After leaving Abel Tasman we drove south to the former gold mining settlement at Lyell for an overnight stop and a chance to plan our route over the next few days. We had five days before we needed to be in Queenstown and various sights and activities along our route. One adrenaline activity neither of …
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Claire and Gareth go travelling! 