Hello All and Merry Christmas! This is coming to you on Christmas Day for us, middle of the night for you in North America. We had a great Christmas Eve and Day. Spent part of the day on the 24th at the beach and then a little waterslide place. Then we headed up the road…
Dec 23 – Greymouth is grey!
Hello – we are in greymouth and it is cold, cloudy and pouring rain! Does that make any of you shivering North Americans feel better?? We are off to Nelson, and not sure how much sightseeing we will do in the wet. It may clear off as we head inland. Had a lovely day yeaterday;…
kaikoura Dec. 22
Hello _ I am typing this entry very quickly as I already did one and then inadvertently lost it when I went to post. We are in Kaikoura, on the east coast – a small beach tourist town. We are heading west to Hanmer Springs, a hot pool spot, very much like Banff, according to…
December 19th
This will be a very quick entry as I am falling asleep on my feet as I write it. We had a fabulous day at the Abel Tasman National Park. We drove about an hour to Kaiteriteri and boarded a boat which took us up the coast to a place called Bark Bay. Here we…
Hello Shelley here – thought I’d better get on it or Ian would have everyone convinced that I did nothing the entire holiday. I will just pick up from where he was. Last night ( Dec. 17th) Sam, (17 yr. old nephew), Dylan and I, went to see Return of the King – fantastic, and…