van wyk journeys My travel and photographic blog
Friday +26, no winds, great day Saturday +17, windy, very wet Today was a very short drive from Martinborough to Wellington through the Rimutaka pass arriving at the Park Hotel in Wellington, sounds easy, doesn’t it? Not so fast and fasten your seat belts. Remember the windy (winding) roads I said that I would not …
+22, no wind, light clouds Today we have a long drive to Martinborough but the roads are now wider than the ones in the north a welcome relief. We stop in Masterton to try and do a little shopping. No success. Our accommodation was amazingly comfortable. We had originally planned to do a winery tour but we were …
+18 Cloudy, light winds, terrible weather. Okay, maybe not terrible not but we were lucky on this trip as the area of Coromandel continues to see rain and lots of water as does Auckland and points north. Napier is an art deco village and a neat stopover. Napier was almost totally destroyed in the 1931 earthquake, …
+22C light winds good weather continue. Today our journey takes us to Rotorua about 194 km south of Waihi. This section of the drive is known as the thermal explorer highway and does not have any stops along the way. On arrival in Rotorua, we decide to check out Kuirau thermal park in town and not …