A couple of posts back I talked about giving advice . And then I was on Tripadvisor - the website I am in the habit of using to check out accomodation for our vacations.
Tripadvisor is described as including ”unbiased hotel reviews” which is correct in that it does not include reviews from the hotels themselves. However posters of [...]
When I left the UK to go to New Zealand at the end of August the press here was full of stories about young men being killed in stabbings, worries about increasing violence related to gang culture, deaths on the road for young drivers,drug related crime and drink related offences( the UK press really love [...]
I have been reflecting on my travels over the past 3 weeks now that I am home. We covered a lot of miles and truly travelled round the world. We will get our photographs developed ( we do digital of course but my husband still likes nothing better than leafing through an old fashioned photo [...]
We flew from Auckland into the South Island on a beautiful clear day which gave us the most wonderful view of the mountains and the vineyards in the Marlborough area. Then - on the ground – we had the challenge of getting to our destinations using the very windy roads through those mountains and up the [...]
We have landed in a B&B near to the city of Nelson in the north of the North Island of New Zealand which is hanging onto the side of a mountian ( or so it seems to us). The views are of snow capped mountians and the Pacific Ocean. What a combination.
We have been warmly [...]
