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What to Do When You Can’t Hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
The alarm blares through the dark hostel room, screeching a klaxon as it wakes me suddenly. For a moment I’m unsettled – it’s pitch black, I’m not sure where I am, and is that a second alarm joining...
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The Colours of Rotorua
There are some destinations where words just don’t seem to describe the feeling of a place with any justice. Rotorua was one of those places. A great, big, milky-grey lake; a park peppered with...
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Noticing the Small Moments
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy I spent this past weekend on the South Coast of NSW on an annual family trip. It’s the same family trip that...
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Take 12 Trips Update
I want to thank you guys for being patient with me whilst I took some much needed time off over the last month or so. It’s been really lovely to see you’re all still checking in! Today’s post is just a...
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The Queen Charlotte Track In Photos
The Queen Charlotte Track was actually the entire reason I went to New Zealand in the first place. When I was younger, my father took me on a few multi-day hikes through the Australian bush, in which...
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Musings On Beginnings
On my first night in Tasmania I cried myself to sleep. I was cold, I was tired, I let a possum eat all the chocolate, I had to share my tent with my brother (teenage priorities) and I just wanted to...
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Help Plan Our Trip to Tasmania
Conor and I are going to Tasmania in July and we need your help! He only has two weeks off work between now and when we leave on our long-term travels, so we’ve decided to use the opportunity to...
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Getting My Geek on in Hobbiton
I’m going to be honest with you. Whilst my trip to New Zealand was for my dad’s birthday, and theoretically the point of the trip was to go hiking (and both the Queen Charlotte Track and Tama Lakes...
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