Welcome to part five in New Zealand: A Hiker’s Paradise, where I write all about hiking in New Zealand. This week, I want to talk about hiking in New Zealand’s South Island southern half, particularly hikes in Otago (near Dunedin), the Catlins, Southland, Fiordland, and Stewart Island. In part one, I talked about the differences…
Category: dunedin
new zealand: a year in review
It seems like only yesterday that I landed at Wellington airport, a bright eyed traveller with dreams bigger than Stewart Island, ready for a year in New Zealand. I was picked up by my new flatmate, and his dog, and thus began a new life in a new city, a new country, over halfway around…
big road trip: week one
A month ago, I packed up my life in Dunedin and headed out on one last big road trip across New Zealand. Here is week one! ** dates of travel: 1-8 Nov 2016 It was absolutely pouring down when I drove out of Dunedin for the second to last time. I’m talking streaming down the…
travel essay: bittersweet feelings on leaving dunedin and more
“The time has come, the walrus said, to think of many things: Of shoes–and ships– and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” // Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland This post has been very hard to write. I’m sitting in my flat kitchen for the…
hello!
I have to share this crazy win — thanks to the fantastic people over at @LoveDunedin and the Dunedin Facebook page, my post about 25 things to do in Dunedin went viral. I can’t say how excited I was when I opened my app and found that my views for the day were at well…
25 things to do in dunedin
You didn’t really think I could get away without posting a 25 things to do post about my newest hometown, did you? I’m so in love with this city. It’s less crowded than Auckland, on the water like Wellington (better weather than Welly too but we won’t tell them that,) full of remote beaches and…
a brush with spontaneity: the moeraki boulders
I was undecided as to whether this post should go under “tinder tales” (possibly coming soon) or spontaneous adventures. It might make a reappearance, honestly, but for now, it was a spontaneous adventure with a new friend. (It is absolutely no secret that I take serious advantage of Tinder while travelling. How else am I…
a penguin experience with the royal albatross centre
Last week, I joined my flatmate Mandy on a Penguin Tour with the Royal Albatross Centre out on the Otago Peninsula. It was one of the cooler moments in my life, watching tiny blue penguins scurry out of the water and up to their nesting holes in the hillside. Read on for my experience and…
travel essay: riding the rails in the taieri gorge
I stepped onto the train platform, the cool shadows of the Dunedin Railway Station behind me, its ornate interior all Art Deco meets old world architecture. In front of me, the Taieri Gorge Railway sat waiting silently to take me on an exploratory journey. Climbing aboard, I found my seat in the carriage next to…
one day in dunedin
Think back to the last travel guide you read. Flipped through. Browsed. What caught your eye? The photos? The bullet points? The endless paragraphs about the obscure torture museum tucked under the subway station in a dodgy part of town that requires the blood of a male virgin to enter? Ugh. My favourite parts about…