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ohope to gisborne

[ed. placeholder with photos. i’ll come back and add my ramble] today we started the journey back to wellington. we’re taking the long way home gisborne

steam engine saturday

today we went on a trip on the rails – and a trip back in time. nz rail is the national rail service operating 3 lines: the overlander between wellington and auckland the tranzcoastal from picton to christchurch the tranzalpine…

just like plymouth – only newer

it’s a three day weekend so we’re off to new plymouth to see some more of nz and hopefully go for a tramp on mt taranaki. as we passed though hawera (home of nz’s largest private collection of elvis memorabilia)…

forging north

in new zealand good friday and easter monday are state holidays so that means a 4 day weekend for everyone. trying to learn from our christmas mistake of not booking early the jboss had planned and booked a trip for…