Ron’s Travel Blog
Napier Marine Parade, New Zealand
This is the beautiful walk right along the bay in Napier. Walk from the Information Center in both directions one takes you to the museum and the other take you down through the gardens to The Little Mermaid of Napier. This is certainly worth a leisurely walk.....and...
Napier, speaking preparation, and Wellington
the Marine Parade is the beautiful walk right along the bay in Napier. Walk from the Information Center in both directions one takes you to the museum and the other take you down through the gardens to The Little Mermaid of Napier. Today we will be talking about...
New Zealand….So far…
We have had 3 days and New Zealand and it has been very impressive The Fjords were magnificent especially as the date cleared and we were able to appreciate the beauty of the second and third Fjords..Port Chalmers and Dunedin as equally as impressive with Dunedin...
Picton, speaking notes, preparation, etc
Picton was a very sleepy pretty pretty little port town. A huge lumber port which we saw from the ship as it was adjacent to the dock. We decided on a quiet day so rode the shuttle the 10 minutes to downtown then walked around for a couple of hours. Cute shops with...
Wellington, New Zealand
Today was a most interesting day in Wellington we have just pulled away from the dock and it was very interesting to see the tugboat help get us out of the dock area with these winds as strong as they are. Today we started by taking the shuttle into the center of town...
Christchurch, New Zealand
The day to Christchurch started off with a tender into the small port town of Arcola where we caught the bus for the one in a half hour drive to Christ Church before the 2011 earthquake the cruise ship would come into a port about 20 minutes from the city...
More on Christchurch, etc
After the tram ride we walked around the Cathedral grounds and then back down to the museum and the museum was exceptional and definitely a must see. The Botanic Garden is adjacent and very beautiful and well maintained and in full-bloom today..The photos show that...
Akaroa and Christchurch, New Zealand
The tender from the ship into Akaroa is about 15 minutes. Here then go directly to the bus and there were about 10 buses waiting at that time. To drive for about 10 minutes through the little town of a Akaroa then start the trip to Christ Church initially you go...
Akaroa
This is the port city from which we boarded ordered the buses for Christ Church we tendered in and it took about 15 minutes and then got on the buses for the 90 minute ride over the mountains into Christ Church Akaroa is a small French village town very picture is...
Dunedin, New Zealand
Dunedin is a remarkable little city in that it is about 100000 people and then there are about $25,000 in the university we went in in the morning for a walk around got to see the railroad station the beautiful church octagon square and it was her a worthwhile and...