Relaxing day in Queenstown..!
Yeah thats exactly what this day been about...
Woke up around 9 and went down to an internet cafe to talk to mum on skype, then we walked around in the town for a bit, before we went back to the hostel for lunch.. we actually cook food everyday, isnt that good?! impressed of myself!! :)
Then we went down to a park were the have a consert for whats happened in Haiti... some good live music and just sitting relaxing in the sun, thats how holiday should be :) Just doing nothing..
so, what will we do tonight? last night in Queenstown.. i dont know yet, probably an other of those good Fergburgers and then we see...
Early up tomorrow, the bus departure 07.30 towards Dunedin... In Dunedin we will vistit a chocolate factory and maybe do a wildlife safari.. we see..!
how are you all doing? pls, send me comments or a message on face, so i know that you all alive :)
just a little more than a week left in NZ now... going to be fun to see australia but think i will miss NZ a little aswell, like this country!
take care!
kisses!
Nelson-Greymouth-Franz Josef-Queenstown
Sorry friends, no update in a long time....!
but we went from Nelson to Greymouth, to stay there over the night.. we stayed in a cute little hostel, called noah's ark :) every room had a special theme.. we had the kiwi room, perfect when we are in NZ (its a special bird from here, and the NZ people call themselfs Kiwi's)
Then we went to Franz Josef for two nights... its was raining when we arrived so we decided to go and relax in some hot pools, perfect way of spending an afternoon :) the next day we did what Franz is famous for, the glacier...we did a full day glacier walk..really cool experience! when went walking and climbing at the glacier for like 6 hours!! you got some really nice views from and at the ice..
Next day we had a loong day in bus to reach queenstown, and that is like the capital of things to do here :)
we decided to stay here for 4 nights.. a lot more people then the other cities we been visiting the last week...
first night, we ate the famouse fergburgers (really good..!) then we went to the cinema to see Avatar, actually a really good movie, didnt think i would like it but i did!!
Today we been doing some adventure again :)
we went riverboarding this morning... that was awesome..!! you have like a small bodyboard and you surfing on that one down a crazy river :) in the end, they had like a playground in water were we jumped from rocks, going on the board on a waterslide, waterswing... hihi, got some good smiles today!!!
time is short!! need to leave the computer for today.. more updates will come..!
take care!
kisses!
Walking again...
but with this fantastic nature here, its walking one of the best ways to explore it...! and actually today walk was supposed to take 4 hours, we did it in 2,5hour... easy!!! :)
so when we finished walking we had to wait three hours until the bus came and drove us back to the hostel, when we were back our stomach was screaming for food, so we took a little walk (again) down to town and ate some really good indian food!!
and that was almost everything about today :)
so now bedtime, tomorrow we will continue to Greymouth and stay there for a night!
good night!
take care!
kisses!
Rainy day in Nelson...!
The headline tells almost everything about today..
its been raining the whole night and almost the whole day... so what did we do?
We started the day easy, just relaxing, ate breakfast, transfered photos from the camera to the computer..
Then the rain stop for like an hour and we decided to take a walk, we went up to a viewpoint and that is the spot for the centre of NZ... after that we walked around in the town, looking in stores, found a pair of surfshorts..
went to the supermarket for some food, pasta with pastasauce :)
right now are we doing nothing, just sitting at the hostel, will check some photos to hopefully uplaod on facebook tomorrow, if everything work out! :)
Tomorrow it time for adventures again, we will do a 4 hour walk in the Abel Tasman nationalpark, think it will be nice, not as hard/long as the alpine crossing in Taupo...!
(In Portage just before kayaking.. notice my nice tan..!)
Take care!
Kisses!
Great days in Picton...!
Been a while since i wrote the last time, and that just means i been busy doing things :)
Last time i wrote we just arrived to Taupo... In Taupo i went skydiving, and that is one of the most crazy and awesome things i evere done, i loved it!!! i will for sure do that again, its a really freaky but cool feeling to just fall out from a plane 12.000 feet up in the air :)
then we had an relaxing day in Taupo just doing nothing, sometimes you need one day doing nothing when you out travelling and you will enjoy the busy days much more :)
from Taupo we went with the bus to Wellington, took like 7 hours, the we went directly with the ferry to the south Island and Picton.. Was a little bit worried first because the last days had been really bad weather on the sea, but luckly we got three nice and calm hours on the ferry to picton..
In picton we were visiting my friend Cole, who lives there.. he was really kind showing us around and took us kayaking in the marlborough sounds.
We spent two full days in Picton... first day, little tired after a few drinks the day before we just went round walking in picton, went up to viewpoint and relaxiing in a park under the sun... Me and elin went a little burned from the sun (typical swedish skin) and everyone had a good laugh about that :)
The next day we went with the watertaxi from picton port to portage where we jumped in the kayak for like 3 hours kayaking.. we were almost alone in the water, clear blue sky and beautiful nature :) when we got back we sat in the sun taking a couple of beers :) can it be better? nice day!!!
we meet a lot of new and really great people in Picton!!
today we started the day with a breakfast in Picton and then we jumped in the bus and continued to Nelson where we are going to stay the next 3 nights..!
More updates comes...
(White Water Rafting in Rotorua, 7 metre waterfall)
Take care!!
kisses!
Next stop Taupo..
This morning we left from Rotorua and drove against Waitomo.. in Waitomo we did the black water rafting..
It was cool, not as much action as the white water rafting, but definatly something special :) we put on wetsuites, rubberboots, and helmets...Then we climbed down into a cave,a nd went walking, climbing, jumping in the water there.. we were jumping in a 1.5 meter waterfall, went crawling in a some passage and came out in the middle of a waterfall, cool!
After that the bus took us to Taupo, where we first went to see the huka falls, amazing river :)
then we checked in at our hostel (YHA Taupo), we sleep in a 8 female dorm room... i think i normaly put things everywhere but its amazing how a room can look, absolutly things everywhere, and guess what: they are not mine!!!
start to get used to live like this now, sleeping in the same room as 6-8 persons you never meet before, cooking food together with everyone, put on clothes to go on the toilet in the night because you have to go outside first :) ..
And i will not come home yet, i really enjoy the time!!
tomorrow we will go hiking the whole day, and for saturday i have booked time to go skydiving!! going to be really cool i think... think i will be little nervouse before, but thats how it supposed to be :)
don't forget the "comment-button" or write me on facebook :)
because now i am like 11-12 hours before most of you and that means it it a little bit harder to be online at the same time :)
I know many of you waiting for photos comeing up, and they will soon :)
Time for sleep, the trip start 06.00 tomorrow morning :)
Take care!
Kisses!
Rotorua.... Action
We sleep in a 10 bed room, and meet a lot of fun new people.... yesterday evening we went to the cinema watching Sherlock Holmes, it was a good movie, even if i feel asleep three times :)
Today we had some action.. we went in the morning to a place and did White water rafting, AWESOME..!!! it was three diffrent waterfalls, one on 4 metre, one on 1 metre and the last one on 7 metre... so cool!! i loved it...
Tommorrow i will get some pics from it so soon hopefully i can upload some :)
After that we went to hells gate, it a spa.. we went mud bathing and swiming in an other pool, did not remeber what was special with that one :) but now i have skin like a baby :)
It have been a very good day and more of those will come :) because tomorrow we will go black water rafting in a cave thats full with glow worms, and hopefully on friday i will go skydiving in Taupo..but we see what happens along the way :)
Hope you all fine back home or where ever you are in the world!
Take care!
kisses!
One day in Auckland...!
Finaly here..!
here comes the totaly unbelievble story about how we finaly got to Auckland 48 hours after we were supposed to be there.. the fist you no... that the flight was cancelled and we got rebooked to the next day, so i start from there.
We went up early to go from home to Stockholm, we we arrive there, the flight it supposed to go on time.. that felt really good after what happened the day before.. we checked in, while we were waiting at the gate they gave us the information that the flight was late with 1 1/2 hours, that meant that we maybe will miss the connecting flight in London.. SHIT! but what to do, just sit there wating.. when we arrive to London it was the same time as the departuretime for the connecting flight.. so we should miss that..
When we came to the connecting flight point they told us that our flight anyway was cancelled, once again :/ so we had to wait in a very very long que, to get rebooked for a second time... while we were waiting it came a man and told us that it was no point for us waiting there because we could anyway not get a flight that night, so the sent us to a hotel in central London, Meriott, were we got dinner and a room for the night.. we had to take the tube to go to the hotel, never been in London before, but now i have :)
when we arrive to the hotel we ate dinner and tried to call the airline to rebook our tickets, but they closed for the day, so we couldnt sleep so well that night because we did not know when to get tickets to continue the trip...
anyway we put the alarm on 06.00 and start to call.. but we were not alone.. i think we finaly reached them at 07.30 and we got to know that we could fly the same evening 20.25.. so we spent the day at Heathrow airport before we continued the trip.. when we went on the plane in London, everything was fine, until everyone was onboard, and thay had some problems on the runways..so we had to sit in the plane for 4 hours before we departured from London... Now we had to worry about missing the next flight to Auckland from Hong Kong.. but when we arrived to Hong Kong, we had an hour... So from there everything went perfectly fine :)
the most surprising thing is that the bag that we checked-in in stockholm actually came at the same time as us to Auckland.. that made us real happy, because the first thing we did when we came to our hostel (Surf´n snow) was to take a shower and change clothes...!
So this little trip happened to be a small adventure in the big adventure!! you learn from everything, but i am happy to be in New Zeeland now, and that it is 1 month before i fly again... :)
More updates comes soon!
Take care!
Kisses!
Tickets here...!
Please cross your fingers or as we say in sweden hold your thumbs, that this will work now....
In that case we will departure from Arlanda 15.05 tomorrow...!!!! pls pls pls!
Have a nice evening!!
Take care!
Kisses!
(The bag is packed and ready, only 8,5kg, perfect...!)
(outside our house, over the lake)
Flight cancellations..... :(
This morning i woke up, had a good feeling in my body: today is the day!!
ate breakfast, took a shower, and put on the computer just to see that the flight will be on time, i had to check the webpage like three time, because under our flight is said: CANCELLED!!!! what?????!
So i called Bristish airways and they tell me, its canceeled due to all snow... what to do now? anyway she told me we have to fly tomorrow instead, thats is as soon as possible.. what to do, just to acept :/
Right now i wait a confirmation on e-mail.... hope everything works out and we can go tomorrow...
(but nothing bad that dosent have anything good with it... i found my USB and charger to my camera, so i dont have to bring the old one... :) )
Update you as soon as i can..!
take care!
kisses!
Final countdown...!
yeah, we will leave this small town and go to New Zeeland or we are not in NZ until friday but the trip starts tomorrow :)
Today, i have been packing, fixing things, as the last two days :) but now i can see a result of it.. evrything is now ready, i just need to put it in the bag (and hopefully its not over 15kg, i hope for 15 but its okey up to 20 kg)..
But i think i will do that tomorrow..
Today i am actually calmer then the other days, i think its because i have almost everything done by now...
The first nights in a hostel is booked, the first parts of the bustrip is booked, and soon the bag is packed, can it be better!! ;)
so tonight we will vistit some friends to the family and just relax...
By lunch time tomorrow we take the car to Stockholm (Arlanda) and the flight time is 18.55... of to London and then Hong Kong before we end up in Auckland, hopefully ;)
So here at the blog i will try to write about everything thats happens along the way (or at least almost everything ;) ... )
There is a "comment"-button underneath every text i write, so you can say hi to me and tell me how you are doing while i am out travelling... For you english speaking friends the name of the button in swedish is "kommentera" then you just type your name on the first row and the message in the bottom one and press "skicka"... or just write me on facebook :)
(a last winter picture before we go to a warmer place. Today its -17 degrees here..!)
So i think next time i write i will be in Auckland, NZ...!
Take care!
Kisses!
Good night words...!
These days are crazy about planing and doing things before the trip... its not just to go travel away, okey you can,but...
Normaly i am kind of organized so i want to know a little what we going to do before we arrive, and today i think we got the first things clear :)
Anyway cant understand its so soon, 3 days, wednesday 18.55 we go from Arlanda and then we have 26 hours in the air (and some more hours waiting) before we are in Auckland, new zeeland!!
So time for bed, because tomorrow is it more things to do, my last vaccination before the trip, my cousins birthday, saying goodbye to my family (grandpa, grandma, cousins....)
Can you see my blog got a new style?!! i am not so good at those things and you can sit forever and change it, but anyway it is a little pink :)
sleep well!!
Take care!
kisses!
2010 is here....!
But first i will tell you about new years eve.. i was at Olivia's home in Uppsala..
We woke up around 10, then the girls came over and we put on warm clothes to spend the morning out playing in the snow.. you never get to old to do that :)
After that we went in to the jacuzzi and sauna, try to warm up a little after being out in -12degrees...freeeezing!
Then we put the dresses on and started the party..!
The rest of the people arrived around 17.00 and the we sat talking, drinking, eating... we played some games and just had a good time, nice to meet some new and old people :)
Around eleven we went in to town and continued at a party there, home again 4 in the morning.. A nice night out!
Now i sit home trying to plan everything for the trip, lot of things to do, plan... but cant understand its only 5 days left!!!
I am not so nervous yet, but probably i will be!!
Hopefully these days i will try to make a new design of the blog, se how that goes :) me and computers= not a good match :)
So now i will go and read some about were we going exactly in new zeeland and what of all the adventures we want to do!! i just sit with a smile on my face and want to do everything right now...!
Take care!
And enjoy the new year thats here, i think its going to be awesome!!!
Kisses!
