Early start to the ferry now waiting to board. Fishing dudes say it’s lovely and flat out there. Yeah right. Turns out to be a lovely day but I took a cabin anyway so we slept most of it. Nice hot shower and a cabin with a view over the bow. We will stay in […]

Noisy, windy, rainy night interrupted at about 4AM with an outside expedition to fix the power cable plug cover banging on the side of the van. About 4 degrees in Wellington this morning with half a gale blowing. Visited the Gallipoli Exhibition at Te Papa. Fantastically well done. Afterwards a quick tour around Seatoun and […]

Rain, rain, rain. First stop New World to get all the things we weren’t going to have. Wine, beer, cheese, Danish pastries. Off to the ferry but bad weather in Cook Straight so canceled. Decided to head out to Martinborough, then not. Pre-dinner drinks. Garage Project is a local Wellington brewery.

Uneventful start, Ohakune Top Ten facilities are excellent. First stop Wellington. Evan’s Bay Marina. Finished the evening at the Corner Bar and Cafe, a humble establishment nearby where we watched some of the rugby.

A landscape of senility. We could not get the a/c power to work in the van even after fault testing with a detector. We checked all breakers including one hidden underneath a cupboard after phoning the help line. So we went to a RV service centre and found out the fault was that I had […]

So, we have had no new cases for, I think, 28 days now and there isn’t anyone in NZ who has Covid 19. With no foreign tourists, the campervan people have greatly reduced their prices. So now we decided is a great time to get out on the road. Level 1 officially starts only at […]