Yesterday was one of those rare days where everything goes well and things just fall into place. It was a text-book traveller’s day. The weather the day before, on Saturday, was rainy and miserable. We spoke to the group that arrived in the township of Franz Josef the day before us and hiked the glacier […]
It’s been a busy few days. On Thursday we boarded the coach and drove off towards Westport on the west coast of the south island. It’s a fantastically scenic drive through the southern alps; a mixture of rocky outcrops, rainforest and snow-capped mountains straight out of a movie scene. En route we stopped off to […]