🌧️ Black Friday in Adelaide: Rain, Christmas Magic and Market Wanders
Our day in the centre of Adelaide turned into one of those unexpectedly brilliant travel days where nothing goes to plan, the…
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🌋 Day 28 – Mud Pools, Missed Beaches, and Rotorua Rising
We set out with a simple plan: hit Hot Water Beach, dig a pool, and call ourselves geniuses. But New Zealand loves…
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🌫️ Day 26 – Gravel Roads and Historic Black Sand
Day 26 looked simple on paper: drive round the coast from Auckland to our next stop by the sea. In reality, it…
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✈️ Day 24 – Flying North and the Strangest BnB in Auckland
Our last South Island morning was slow and practical the kind filled with those final bits and bobs you somehow keep finding…
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🌤️ Day 23 – Thermal Bliss and Farewell to the South
Our final morning on the South Island arrived bright, calm and warm the kind that makes you want to freeze time. We…
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🚗 Day 22 – From the Steepest Street to the Sand: Dunedin to Christchurch
We hit the road early, leaving Dunedin behind with the car packed, snacks ready, and a sense that another chapter was turning.…
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🌋 Day 21 – Gardens, Volcano Trails & The Midnight March of the Penguins
If Day 20 was all mist and mystery, Day 21 was pure magic sunshine, feathers, flowers, and a late-night show we’ll never…
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🌅 Day 19 – Lighthouse Legends, Waterfalls & A Good Deed in the Catlins
We left Surat Bay with the morning sun already bouncing off the bonnet, the air warm and still, and that sense that…
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☕ Day 13 – From Blizzard to Blossoms: Arrowtown Thaws Out
We woke to a world still dusted white the mountains glowing behind the campground, the trees bowing gently under the weight of…
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