We wrapped up our tour of New Zealand’s South Island with a brief stay in Christchurch. Christchurch is probably best known, unfortunately, for the damage it suffered during earthquakes on September 4, 2010, and February 21, 2011, the latter of
Oamaru (pronounced ŌM-a-RU, not ō-MAR-u as we had initially guessed) is a town of 14,300 on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, between Dunedin and Christchurch. A century and a half ago, it was a rapidly growing, bustling
After Queenstown, we took a bus ride across the picturesque Otago region to Dunedin, a city on the Pacific (eastern) coast of New Zealand’s South Island. We stopped in Dunedin for a day during our New Zealand-to-Australia cruise in 2013,
From Auckland, we flew to Queenstown, a resort town in the heart of the “Southern Alps” on New Zealand’s South Island. It was touristy, to be sure. It would probably be a quiet, sleepy town if it weren’t for tourism.
During our visit to Queenstown, New Zealand, we took a bus tour to Milford Sound. The ride to and from Milford Sound was nearly as spectacular as the sound itself. Technically, it’s not a sound, it’s a fiord. (Fiord is
Our first stop in New Zealand was Auckland, home to 1/3 of the country’s population. We visited Auckland once before in 2013, at the start of a cruise from New Zealand to Australia. So we’ve already seen some of the
In February 2026, we visited Honolulu, Hawaii, for three nights enroute to New Zealand. The stopover provided a welcome way to break up the long flight from the US to New Zealand. Our visit was disappointing in some regards, but
As you’ve probably noticed, we enjoy taking pictures when we travel. (You: “Nooo…!!!”) Haha… We’re not professional photographers by any means. We take all of our pictures on our iPhones. We no longer bring separate cameras or video cameras on
The last destination on our Fall 2025 SE Asia-Australia trip was Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Adelaide was a nice city with some interesting things to see and do, but we weren’t as enamored of it as we were
If you’ve seen many (or even some) of our posts from the cities we’ve visited in 2025, our first year of extended travel, you have probably noticed that we visit museums in most places we go. Some have been devoted
