Category: World Trip 1999-2000
A 118-day world trip visiting six countries – New Zealand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and Wales between 11 November 1999 and 6 March 2000.
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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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Wednesday 17 November 1999 Highlights: Hot bubbling mud. After waking up very late at 9.50 am we had to rush to check out by 10 am and not get charged for an extra night, I think an alarm clock is needed. I haven’t received any replies to the email I send on 13 November from…
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Tuesday 16 November 1999 Highlights: White water rafting, Kiwi Paka Spa Today was the first wash day, something that will become a regular task on this world tour from this point onwards 😦 We went white water rafting today on a grade 4 river. The grade 5 rapids was unfortunately (fortunately??) shut because of recent…
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Monday 15 November 1999 Highlights: Hot springs, Tamaki Maori Village, the Buried Village of Te Wairoa Had three beers in the pool last night, two Lion Reds and one Export Gold Ice, later watching Billy Connelly ‘live in Auckland’. Kara matched to get drunk off 3 glasses of wine. These NZ beers aren’t bad. Saw…
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Sunday 14 November 1999 Highlights: Waitomo Caves Glow Worms We left Auckland today, will be back hopefully by the 26th to fly to Honolulu for the next stage of the trip. First stop today was at Cambridge for lunch with John & Shirley Stormont (a friends of Kevin Dagg, Jon’s dad). Very nice people. The…
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Saturday 13 November 1999 Highlights: Russell and Maiki (Flagstaff Hill) Today we hired a car and went up to the Bay of Islands. Also we decided that we will ditch the car in Wellington and instead of driving catch from Picton to Kaikoura to Christchurch only costing $35 NZ which seems like a bargain. Unfortunately…
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Friday 12 November 1999 Highlights: America’s Cup yachts, Ferry ride, Looking 50 floors straight down from a Sky Tower glass floor, Auckland Museum. First full day of the trip after a unexpected very hot night! I could barely sleep because my sleeping bag generates so much warmth. USA and UK winter weather later in the…
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Thursday 11 November 1999 Highlights: Start of a 117 world trip covering New Zealand, USA, United Kingdom and Ireland. Shadow animals. While attempting to leave Sunbury Kara’s dog Matty unfortunately got out luckily it only took 15 minutes to find him. The first leg in New Zealand is with my best friend Jon and sister…
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