Nathan's Insights
World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas
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Monday 22 November 1999 Highlights: Kaikoura Museum. The whale watching was cancelled again today. We have a back up booking for to or row at 5.30 am which should let us easily get back for our train that leaves at 4.08 pm. This is a major disappointment. Kaikoura has almost nothing else to do. We…
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Sunday 21 November 1999 Highlights: Ferry crossing, Scenic train journey Picton to Kaikoura. We travelled from rainy Wellington to sunny Picton via the ‘Top Cat’ ferry which took about 1 3/4 hours. Picton seems to be a lovely place. We ate lunch on the shore and caught some sun sitting and laying on the glass.…
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Saturday 20 November 1999 Highlights: Wellington Museum, Cable Car Ride, New Zealand Parliament. Today we were still tired from the events of the Turangi walk from two days ago however with this being our only full day here we had to get out and about. Among the places we visited was the Wellington Museum (which…
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Friday 19 November 1999 Highlights: Snow capped mountains. We spent about about 4 hours travelling to the windy city that is the New Zealand capital of Wellington. A good part of this journey was seeing snow on a couple of mountains, I really want a white Christmas this year when we are in New York…
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Thursday 18 November 1999 Highlights: Rescued by retirees in the Tongario National Park. We got up around 6.30 am in order to catch the early bus to Tongario National Park. We were forewarned that it might rain but ignored that little piece of advise. In the end it did rain and I’m sure a cold…
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