by Andy | Oct 8, 2013 | New Zealand, Trip Reports
Milford Sound was wonderful. I wanted to stay there, and briefly thought about applying for a job with Real Journeys. Alas, I could not, I had clients waiting for me upon my return. Leaving Queenstown after Aggie Football I awoke with a start at 4:30 the...
by Andy | Oct 2, 2013 | New Zealand, Oceania, Photography, Travel, Trip Reports
Rudyard Kipling very famously (and unsourcedly) called Milford Sound the Eighth Wonder of the World. I’ve often called Rudyard Kipling the Eighth Most Uninteresting Writer Based on Half of a Book I Read in High School, so the connection was immediate. Put...
by Andy | Sep 28, 2013 | New Zealand, Oceania, Travel, Trip Reports
So I left you with a bit of a cliffhanger at the end of the last post. Hopefully it’s worth the wait. If it’s not, I’ll happily refund your money. Getting to Queenstown So why did I pick Queenstown? One of the travel bloggers I...
by Andy | Sep 17, 2013 | New Zealand, Oceania, Travel, Trip Reports
I awoke in Taupo the following morning, very jetlagged. I eventually made my way down to breakfast, which was in the restaurant attached to the hotel (which, in an effort to serve you better, I faithfully forgot to take pictures of) and…went back to bed...
by Andy | Sep 10, 2013 | New Zealand, Oceania, Trip Reports
I begin this episode of What Did Andy Do To Cause Others To Laugh At Him with a confession. I’m an aspiring rugby fan. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, there’s a field where a bunch of players run into each other, with fervent aggression, until...
by Andy | Sep 9, 2013 | Air New Zealand, Coach, Flight Reviews, New Zealand, Oceania, Trip Reports
Welcome back, to another trip report from Andy’s Travel Blog. This one is sure to be the absolutely best trip report I’ve ever written since the one about my round the world trip in April. If you read my post about my next trip, then you’re missing...