Australia & New Zealand 2020 - Fabulous Travels

Antipodes 2020 day 25 – Palindrome day

OK so the title is tenuous but this day has so many facets I can’t single one out, so let’s focus on […]

Leaving a ship is so sad. I can’t understand those who make “looking forward to my own bed” comments – that’s never […]

Ordinarily this last day would be a slow news day, but of course it’s anything but as we (as a country) jump […]

Our sea days always start with breakfast in the Pinnacle. There’s just not enough time on port-days to enjoy the experience so […]

We’re parked up in the Bay of Islands. This is an important place in history as the Treaty Grounds overlook this beautiful […]

It’s quite funny that we’re moored right against the Hilton Hotel on pier 1 – when we arrived in NZ for the […]

We got sunstroke the first time. Straight off the red-eye from LA we arrived at the Hilton, coincidentally not even a stone’s […]

OK, it helps having the right kind of friends! However everything described today could be done by hiring a car or a car and […]

Out of the ashes, a Phoenix has risen. Not literally ashes in this case, but volcanic nevertheless. In 1931 an horrendous earthquake […]

Last time we we were in Wellington we were underwhelmed, possibly because the weather wasn’t so good, and possibly because the previous […]