Who has been to New Zealand?

[onlyme]

So who has been to New Zealand? (I haven't, BTW...)

I'm a Canuck, and Air New Zealand has started flying to Vancouver, BC.

A trip to Australia - for those who live far away - is enhanced by stopping off in NZ - it's a perennial toss up whether Auckland or Wellington is the better port of entry...

I'd like to do the Cook Strait ferry run between Wellington, NI and Picton, SI, through the Marlborough Sounds; the pictures seem pretty impressive.

 

[MoreCoffee]

So who has been to New Zealand? (I haven't, BTW...)

I'm a Canuck, and Air New Zealand has started flying to Vancouver, BC.

A trip to Australia - for those who live far away - is enhanced by stopping off in NZ - it's a perennial toss up whether Auckland or Wellington is the better port of entry...

I'd like to do the Cook Strait ferry run between Wellington, NI and Picton, SI, through the Marlborough Sounds; the pictures seem pretty impressive.

I have been to New Zealand. I have cousins there.

 

[onlyme]

I have been to New Zealand. I have cousins there.

We have friends there. What particularly interests me about the Picton Ferry route is that I read one of Katherine Mansfield's short stories which is all about the Picton ferry.

 

[onlyme]

Image result for Picton Ferry Marlborough

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...thening_and_Marlborough_Sounds_20100122_1.jpg

 

[Rens]

It's named after Zeeland. Only been to the old Zeeland.

 

[onlyme]

It's named after Zeeland. Only been to the old Zeeland.

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Oh I've been to the old Zealand also... (Hoe gaat het? )

There is New Zealand; Zeeland, The Netherlands; Sjaeland, Denmark. (I think Abel Tasman has something to do with the Dutch connection... )

 

[MS140ukn]

ive never been there. i know its a beautiful place. i can only look at travel images and fantasize that iam there, getting away from the gritty suburbs

 

[onlyme]

ive never been there. i know its a beautiful place. i can only look at travel images and fantasize that iam there, getting away from the gritty suburbs

Hi there; Australia and NZ certainly have the wide open spaces. They do have cities, too; in fact, a lot of the population is city based.

From up here in Canada, Air New Zealand now flies from Vancouver to NZ; I think they also go from LAX.

 

[MS140ukn]

where i live. we lack open spaces..its always filled up with new housing construction. almost sufocating feeling. i need at least one month vacation there.

 

[onlyme]

where i live. we lack open spaces..its always filled up with new housing construction. almost sufocating feeling. i need at least one month vacation there.

Hope you manage to get away. South Island of New Zealand seems especially remote; Milford Sound is impressing; I'll try to paste a link...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Milford_sound_(8237971913).jpg

 

[MS140ukn]

nice image. i saved in wallpaper folder. i will save more of new zealand later today

 

[onlyme]

nice image. i saved in wallpaper folder. i will save more of new zealand later today

I talked to someone who went to NZ who seemed like that she had become drunk on impressive scenery and could not take any more! (She's a teetotaler, but you know what I mean.)

 

[Rens]

ive never been there. i know its a beautiful place. i can only look at travel images and fantasize that iam there, getting away from the gritty suburbs

I saw a video on youtube once from someone who hiked in New Zealand. Wonderful, beautiful nature plus I could just sit on my couch with a phone and didn't have to hike. Maybe try those new virtual reality glasses they have.

 

[MS140ukn]

yesh. i found a beautiful one, sunset at maori bay

http://www.wallcoo.net/nature/HD_New_Zealand_Landscape_1920_da_chrisgin/wallpapers/1440x900/Sunset%20at%20Maori%20Bay%2C%20Auckland%2C%20New%20Zealand.jpg

 

[onlyme]

I saw a video on youtube once from someone who hiked in New Zealand. Wonderful plus I could just sit on my couch with a phone and didn't have to hike.

Well, there is the Milford Track, in South Island, which is a popular hiking track. I'll try to find a link.

It was featured years ago in the National Geographic Magazine.

 

[onlyme]

Milford Track dormitory, South Island, NZ:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milford_Track_Dumpling_Hut_Dormitories.jpg

 

[MS140ukn]

virtual goggles might be useful. ill look into that

 

[onlyme]

virtual goggles might be useful. ill look into that

YW

 

[onlyme]

I've not been to NZ, but this is a place in France that I've been to, which was liberated by New Zealanders in WW1:

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countri...-embassy/anzac-day-commemorations/le-quesnoy/

 

[Stravinsk]

I've been a few times. In the early 2000's, I went with my wife(now deceased) for a holiday - and also a few years back I went by myself to do some snowboarding.