Staying in hostels is a bit of a crap shoot. I always stay in female dorms or single rooms, and occasionally you get the drunk roommate staggering in at midnight, but no real drama. Due to a number of festivals in Queenstown, plus, y’now, Queenstown, I ended up in a... [...]
I seem to be hitting all the “backpackers with money” tourist spots on this trip. Franz Josef Glacier is a town dedicated to getting young, healthy kids from Europe and North America to fork over $200 to fly up to the glacier in a helicopter so they can run around... [...]
Today was a loooong day - 401km on the odo. I woke up at 6:30am, my body clock set to OMG o’clock by the screeching kaka parrots in Wellington the week before. I had played a couple hours of poker at the casino, had a few beers, and while beer... [...]
“Right, next on the list… You know about the Kia, right? They’ll tear up yer bike!” [...]
These are STRICTLY for safety! [...]