Escape to New Zealand’s West Coast
What can you do in the Glacier Country when you visited both glaciers on the first day? The weather wasn’t as good as on the previous day, still good enough to do some less challenging hikes. Because you always anticipate rain on the “Wet Coast” we opted for some easier walks such as Tartare Tunnels […]
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Escape to New Zealand’s West Coast
Disappointing New Zealand Work sucks here, it really does. I did not expect New Zealand to be so outdated and stuck in the old days as it is. Behaviours that Europe simply got rid of or is in the process of doing so are nurtured here. On the top of that, living in Queenstown really […]
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Skiing in New Zealand
It’s been a while since the last post. As usual we were just busy. We managed to go for many hikes that I wanted to post about, just struggled for time. Konrad joined scouts, and Matylda signed for Remarkables Netball Squad. That means we were busy during evenings and weekends throughout the autumn. After netball […]
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Visiting Invercargill
At work we meet various people, with some you start having a regular contact, and meet outside the working environment. It makes it easier when our children just click on the spot and become good buddies. Thanks that we were invited to visit and stay at their place in Invercargill for a weekend. It is […]
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Jack’s Point, Queenstown.
We moved to the area called Jack’s Point. Interestingly this place in 2021 was rated among top 10 lifestyle estates in the world (newworldwealth.com). I can see why, it’s only 10 min walk from Wakatipu, it has cool playground attached to the football pitch and tennis courts (all free entry), if you like playing golf […]
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Lake Alta with two ‘tweens’
When you new to Queenstown, and at least at the beginning when only one of us were working you really need to do things on the budget. As mentioned previously Queenstown offers a lot of mountaineering activities that you can do without any proper gear. We live literally on the doorstep of The Remarkables mountain […]
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Moving from UK to New Zealand from the tween’s point of view.
My thoughts on moving to NZ When I first got off the plane, I felt like I was still on it, like everything was still vibrating. After long wait we took a bus to a quarantine hotel that we would be staying in for 2 weeks. It was pretty boring there, and we could only […]
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Destination Queenstown
It’s been a while since the last post. However, there were lots of changes, a little roller-coaster, and a lot of frustration. The main point is that we have moved from Dunedin to Queenstown. Seems like a dream move, but nothing is as beautiful and shiny as it seems. Tu cut a very long story […]
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Queenstown short break
Dunedin to Queenstown Queenstown supposed to be one most iconic places in the world with some truly breathtaking scenery. We decided to check it out. Due to work commitment we set of Friday afternoon. It is about 3-3.5 hrs drive from Dunedin. Because of the late hours we could not enjoy the views on the […]
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Short break in Christchurch
New Zealand’s most expensive cat Feels like we’re jumping two months forward with this post in comparison to the last. But it is the important/emotional reason for it. We went to Christchurch for a weekend. The reason for it was to pick our cat Freyja from the quarantine. To cut the long story short she’s […]
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