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New Zealand
Back to Christchurch
Saturday was the last of our long driving days as we returned to Christchurch. Our trip also completed the central loop of our ’figure eight’ tour of New Zealand’s south island – a driving trip of 4,250 kilometres. We started the day by driving down the west coast from Punakaiki through Greymouth to Kumera Junction […]
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New Zealand
Back to the West Coast
On Friday, we headed west from Nelson through some forested country back towards Punakaiki where we had previously spent a night. This journey completed the top loop of our ‘figure eight’ drive around New Zealand. The country along the first part of the day was through mountainous pine forest. Many of the steep hills along […]
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New Zealand
A Quiet Day in Nelson
Because we have two days here in Nelson, we deliberately kept our start to the day slow and relaxed. We were still in our hotel room at 10.30 am before leaving for a day of looking around this area of the northern South Island. We thought that we should put the car through a car […]
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