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Anton
Hi guys,
Good to see that you are having a great time, but why shouldn't you? You are in New Zealand afterall :).
I am sorry to inform you that the rivers you crossed were succesfully conquered by me and Anders two months ago (alltough not on purpose :P ). We simply missed that the track led to the mountain and went straight towards the top. I think that water must be from the glaciers on top of the surrounding mountains cause they were really cold when we were there too.
Hope you enjoy the rest of the trip and if you are going to milford sound remember to bring some warm clothes and as Anders said, watch out for the sneaky parrots. They seem harmless right until the moment when they start to tear away all the rubber on your car :P
I know Oscar it´s impossible to hide from the sun. But I can see that you are using long sleeved shirts now. Not every day you experience that. Very stylish!
Nice to see all of your great photos, I can recognize many of the sceneries. It seems as you are doing quite well down under. Nice to hear that you liked the split apple rock, it was really a cool place. Wellington was not as nice, we did not like it even a bit as Anton said (below). We stayed at a former brothel there which was converted into a very questionable hostel, so you´re not the only ones with a small grudge against Wellington. =)
And Domenic you should know by now that Oscar has a very flexible stomach and an appetite fit for a giant. ;) It´s impressing though, even for Oscar to eat half a kg meat.
I really hope you will do the bungee jump Oscar. It was such an experience! I did it in Queenstown, as you may recall from our earlier conversation before you went. It was at the "kawarau bridge" were they first started the commercial bungee. You can't chicken out now. Or are you a chicken Oscar?
Anton already gave a bunch of great suggestions here below and I totally agree with him. There are also glaciers along the way to Queenstown that you could visit. It was a quite a nice contrast to the surrounding rainforest. There are a lot of adventurous locations surrounding Queenstown as well but it is also a bit more expensive to do things there. We went to see a couple of lord of the rings locations close to Queenstown but there are one location, even better, when you guys are driving up the east coast later on. The Remarkables (mountain range) from LOTR can also be seen at all times from Queenstown. It´s quite impressing. One thing that you not should miss is Milford Sound. I think that location has some of NZ best sceneries. You will not be disappointed. Watch out for the rubber eating green mountain parrots if you want to keep all of the rubber parts attached to the car. =)
I really envy you guys! But actually the spring has started to show here in Gothenburg (8C tomorrow) so I have faith of warmer weather soon. ;) Keep it real! =) / Anders
Dominic
Sau schad, dass ich de match nid han choenne luege. ICh han so in de 58 min mol bim live ticker iinegluegt und det isch no 0-0 gsi, aber es het nacheme spannende match toent. Ich freu mich au uffs rueckspiel, aber ich hoff das de Jetlag mich nid besiegt. Danke fuerd spiel info.
Sandro
Basel het Bayern gschlage!!! unglaublich! dr zoua het in shaqiri manier vo de siite noch iine zoge vorem 16er, 3 bayern spiller uusgnoh und e riese steilpass ufe stocker gspillt, wo voll abzoge het und dr neuer tunnelt het. de sommer het wahninsinnig guet ghebt; 3 mol sind d gegespiller (2xribery und 1xgomez) allei uf sis goal cho, und er hett jedesmol de ball ghebt, au wenns fascht unmöglich gsi isch.
basel hett zuedem 1 pfoschte und ein latteschuss gha. e wahnsinnge match. ich freu mich scho ufs rückspiel!!!
Mamma
Hej, så roligt att läsa hur ni har det. Återigen fantastiska bilder - vilken natur!
Massor med Kramar Marie
(Swiss)-Mum
Hi boys, I'm pleased you are having such a good time. I LOVE your updates !! Big Hugs !
Dominic
Goodday,
sorry that we have been so lazy about our updates, but some of these kiwi computers are completely useless. We try to update a bunch uf fotos today as well, but it depends how the computer in the next hostel will be.
PS: That was a great link, Sandro. I will show it to Oscar as soon as he is awake.
Torres
Ein Valentinsgeschenk für euch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcGEQRyaqI
"sie haben doch bestimmt eine liebste zuhause"-"ich weise diese unterstellung zurück!" -> FOREVER ALONE.
;-)
Anton
Hi,
Seeing your pictures makes me wonder why i went back to sweden :). I see you have visisted alot of nice places. We did the save caving and we really liked it aswell, one of the best adventures we did. Did you try all the small holes? (our guide was a bit disappointed since we managed to squeeze through all of them :P) We were not very fond of Wellington, maybe because we stayed at the worst hostel ever :P. Are you going to the south island soon or are you heading back up north?
Nelson was a nice town on the south island and the kayaking in the abel tasman national park about 50km from there was great. Near the national park you could also see the split apple rock, the name tells most of the story, it was worth seeing. There was a really nice hostel in Nelson called "The bug" there . When you are driving along the west coast of the south island you really notice that most people live on the north islands, lots of space and really nice senery.
If you have time you should stop in punakaiki and look at the pancake rocks, most impressive at high tide. We stayed at a nice hostel at the beach there with the logical name, punakaiki beach hostel :P
The most impressive scenery according to us was the milford sound which was really breathtaking. You don't want to stay to long though because it is usually cold.
Hope you are enjoying your trip, i will keep updated and see if i remember some more nice places.
PS. If you want to see a kiwi cheap, go to the kiwi house in Hokitika on the west coast of the south island. You can also buy some cheap greenstone there. DS
Oscar
Jag vet Anders, men det var ju malnigt den dagen och anda blev man sa solbrand.
Vi ar i Wllington nu, hoppas vi kan lagga upp fler bilder snart.
Du och Anton far garna skriva vilka stallen ni tyckte om och vart det var vart att stanna lite langre! ;)
