Thursday 12 April 2007

Stories from NZ

Camping near East Cape - NZ

I'm not quite sure there's a category for the kind of travelling we do, but it frequently consists of a mix of all worlds. Flashpacker is possible category, but I'm not sure we quite fit that either. And so on this short New Zealand trip we mixed hotels, backpackers and camping in remote locations. We typically have a car which carts us around in varying levels of comfort, and this time it was a Toyota Camry (but Avis gave us the now superseded model damn it!). It took us far and wide - with no day spent idle. Hiking, swimming, dining out (or via supermarkets), exploring and running from scary locals all regular features, often all in one day, through our travels. The final destination for the day is flexible - and accommodation arranged in transit, sometimes using wotif.com sometimes with a 'that looks alright' for the night. Bryce managed to collect an entire forest by the time we returned to Wellington, and I managed to photograph the hell out of Sylvain & Bryce, both reluctant subjects, amongst others.
More stories / photos will undoubtedly follow soon.

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