Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we arrived at our final New Zealand port – the Capital City – Wellington. It’s sometimes known as Windy Wellington for good reason. Today, it was blowing quite a hoolie. Wellington wasn’t quite what I expected. For starters, it’s quite a compact city; I learnt later that this is largely due to the shape of the land here, and...

I feel like all my Christmases and Birthdays have come at once. Not only because of yesterday’s visit to the Hobbiton Film set, which was an extraordinary experience, but I also discovered that I can use my regular phone minutes and data on my EE phone contract when in New Zealand. So I have more access to the internet than...

Today, we arrived in Tauranga, New Zealand, and the world just got a little bit smaller. I must confess to having been more than a bit excited about this stop, because we were booked to go on an excursion. Not as escorts, for a change, but as bona fide punters. It required us to be up at stupid o’clock (6am)...