Import from Italy

Strange... It's been four weeks now since we landed in NZ, and we still haven't found any locally grown kiwifruit, except for the golden Zespri's... All others are actually imported from Italy!! Questions in all main supermarket chains have resulted in a standard answer "I don't know, maybe it's not the time of the year?".

Anyway, NZ has been really great so far - lots of short nice drives and walks and one very heavy trekking, the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing, 19.4 km with 700 m ascent and 1100 m descent, done in 7.15 hours... It's two days later now and the pain in our legs is finally gone... Four more days and we're back in Oz, where we will update you girls and boys with some of our 2500 brand new pictures :-)

Hugs from Down Under!

E & T

Easy on the legs

We've made it to the promised land - New Zealand! Rented a car, bought a BBH membership card (something like youth hostels, but we like these BBH places a lot more - sorry, guys) and cruising through gorgeous landscapes. Enjoyed sleeping in a transformed jailhouse and being part of the international buskers' festival in Christchurch (Thomas was even picked out of the public to join in a water battle). Went hiking (the tourist office named the walk "easy on the legs" but we thought "difficult walk" was more precise) and bought ourselves (another) mobile phone numer +64 226 850 447. Pictures (loads of them) will follow! Greetings from Kinloch Lodge - the views from the hostel terrace are exactly the same as the ones on the website... Cheers!