Brenda and Kemm's travels

Cardrona and Arrowtown

It is well known that the Cardrona Pub is a great stopping point on the road between Wanaka and Queenstown but have never actually been there. As such, our goal for the day was to head over the Crown Range road  as it’s called, stop at the Cardrona Pub for …

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Lakes Hawea and Wanaka

Woke to rain, cold and yucky looking weather this morning. Thank goodness for a great day yesterday! Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind, how many times can we say the words “this is magnificent”. Lakes Hawea and Wanaka and the Haast Pass are beautiful on …

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Mum’s 80th Birthday weekend

It’s been a big weekend here, arrived in Auckland on Wednesday night and had the night there to ourselves before driving down to New Plymouth on Thursday. It was a ‘hot’ day then, 30 in New Plymouth so the kiwis were all dying of heat stress! Very dry driving down …

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