Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, New Zealand
One thing we didn’t do back in 2007 was explore Hokitika Gorge and we were keen to visit it this time around! However after waking up and swopping over our campervan the heavens opened and rain set in for the day. After a chat with Kevin (at Links View Holiday...
Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, New Zealand
With a slight nervousness, we set off north towards Hokitika, stopping briefly at Franz Josef for supplies and to post letters home. As we drove on the twisting and turning New Zealand roads, yet again we had campervan problems, so we decided we would stop at the...
Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, New Zealand
After our campervan problems of the day before, we decided we would drive cautiously today up towards Fox Glacier and once we had a phone signal we’d contact the rental company. Just to put it into perspective this is the route we drove, with a campervan that...
Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, New Zealand
Having arrived back in Cromwell too late to experience the Otago wines after our day in Queenstown, we were talking to the staff in the Top 10 Campsite office and discovered that there was a vineyard a few minutes away that opened for tasting at 10am so we decided we...
Feb 3, 2019 | Blog, New Zealand
After our first freedom camping experience, we were ready to drive out to Queenstown, given it was winter and we’d read a lot of warnings about some of the alpine roads we were a little nervous about driving over Lindis Pass. We needed to refuel so checked with...
Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, New Zealand
We headed down the winding roads from Akaroa towards Ashburton where we stopped for lunch – to be honest, there isn’t much here and we should have planned our stop better!! We then continued down the East Coast towards Timaru arriving in the late...
