#Christchurch Farm Stay

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From Barns to Bliss: Discovering New Zealand's Luxury Farmstays

Situated in the center of the South Island of New Zealand, this natural paradise seamlessly blends luxury with rustic charm. Here, among the stunning scenery, is a selection of farmstays that provide a distinctive take on the classic rural getaway. Welcome to the South Island's premier farmstay experience in New Zealand's luxury farmstay industry.

New Zealand's Luxury Farmstay: An Unusual Getaway

Envision awakening to the melodies of birds, encircled by undulating hills and verdant meadows. That's what a luxury farmstay new zealand's South Island promises. Travelers looking for a taste of country life without compromising comfort and style will find refuge in these undiscovered jewels.

These farmstays are unique in that they are dedicated to protecting the area's natural splendor. There are environmentally friendly lodging options that fit well in with the surroundings. The health of the earth is given top priority at these getaways, from organic farming methods to ecological design.

Farmstay South Island

South Island Farmstay: A Luxurious Adventure Combination

In addition to being a chance for leisure, a farmstay south island offers adventure. Take a guided hike across the challenging terrain or ride a horse through the vast farmlands. Fishing and kayaking are popular pastimes for those who enjoy the water in the clear rivers that meander through the landscape.

However, it's not just about being outside. Farmstays on the South Island provide a taste of the area's rich culinary history. Enjoy farm-to-table dining experiences where you may sample delicious wines and fresh produce that are grown right on the property where you are staying.

Luxurious Farmstay in New Zealand: Unmatched Coziness

After a full day of exploration, retire to your luxury farmstay new zealand lodging. With their roomy rooms, individual cottages, and even opulent glamping choices, these establishments are redefining what it means to live in the country.

Luxury Farmstay New Zealand

Imagine yourself relaxing in a hot tub beneath the starry sky of the South Island, or conversing with other travelers around the fire. These farm stays have been meticulously designed, down to the finest linens and locally sourced furnishings, to ensure that your stay is genuinely exceptional.

Farmstay South Island: An Exciting Adventure

In a world where it feels like life is moving faster than ever, a farm stay south islandin New Zealand calls with promises of peace and renewal. It's a location where opulence and rustic charm coexist together to produce a luxurious yet genuine experience.

Thus, if you're looking for a vacation where you can escape the everyday and get back in touch with nature, think about booking a luxury farm stay new Zealand's South Island. You'll come away from your adventure with priceless memories and a fresh respect for this stunning region's natural beauties.

[lonestarnzseo]

Redefining Tradition: 6 Modern Trends in Classic Restaurant

Classic restaurants hold a special place in our hearts. They evoke nostalgia, tradition, and a sense of timeless elegance. However, in today's ever-evolving culinary landscape, these establishments are not immune to change.

Restaurants that have stood the test of time are now embracing modern trends to stay relevant while preserving their cherished traditions. Let's delve into six exciting ways a restaurant in Christchurch city can redefine tradition in the modern era.

1. Fusion Cuisine: Blending Tradition with Innovation

A classic restaurant is embracing fusion cuisine to offer patrons a unique dining experience that combines traditional flavours with innovative twists. By infusing traditional dishes with contemporary ingredients and cooking techniques, this restaurant appeals to a broader audience while maintaining the essence of its culinary heritage.

Whether it's Japanese-Peruvian fusion or Italian-Asian fusion, the marriage of diverse culinary traditions creates a harmonious and exciting menu that keeps diners coming back for more.

2. Sustainability: A Commitment to Ethical Dining

In today's eco-conscious world, a classic restaurant is prioritising sustainability in its operations. From sourcing locally grown produce to reducing food waste and implementing energy-efficient practices, this restaurant is leading the way in ethical dining.

By supporting sustainable practices, restaurants not only contribute to environmental conservation but also resonate with socially conscious consumers who value responsible dining choices.

3. Technology Integration: Enhancing the Dining Experience

While tradition may be at the core of a classic restaurant Christchurch city, it is not shying away from embracing technology to enhance the dining experience. From online reservations and digital menus to mobile payment options and interactive cooking demonstrations, restaurants are leveraging technology to streamline operations and engage customers in new and exciting ways.

By embracing technology, restaurants are staying ahead of the curve and catering to the preferences of tech-savvy diners.

4. Creative Beverage Programs: Beyond the Classic Cocktail

A classic restaurant is elevating its beverage program to complement its culinary offerings. From craft cocktails infused with exotic flavours to artisanal wines curated from around the globe, restaurants are expanding its drink menu to provide patrons with a diverse array of libations.

Additionally, restaurants are investing in knowledgeable sommeliers and mixologists who can guide diners through their beverage selections, enhancing the overall dining experience.

5. Farm-to-Table Dining: Celebrating Freshness and Seasonality

The farm-to-table movement has taken the culinary world by storm, and a classic restaurant is wholeheartedly embracing this trend. By forging direct relationships with local farmers and producers, restaurants are able to showcase the freshest seasonal ingredients in their dishes. This commitment to farm-to-table dining not only ensures superior quality and flavour but also supports the local economy and promotes sustainable agriculture practices.

Diners appreciate the transparency and authenticity of knowing where their food comes from, enhancing their connection to the dining experience.

6. Revamped Ambience: Modernizing Classic Spaces

While tradition may be timeless, a classic restaurant is giving its interior a modern makeover to appeal to contemporary sensibilities. From stylish decor and ambient lighting to chic furnishings and innovative design elements, restaurants are revamping its ambiance while preserving the charm and character of its historic space.

By striking a balance between old-world elegance and modern sophistication, restaurants are creating an inviting atmosphere that caters to diverse tastes and preferences.

Conclusion

A classic restaurant Christchurch city is embracing modern trends to redefine tradition in the culinary world. Whether it's through fusion cuisine, sustainability initiatives, technology integration, creative beverage programs, farm-to-table dining, or revamped ambience, the restaurant is evolving with the times while honouring its storied legacy.

By staying innovative and adaptive, restaurants continue to captivate diners and leave a lasting impression in an ever-changing industry.

Source: https://medium.com/@lonestarnzseo/redefining-tradition-6-modern-trends-in-classic-restaurant-80df330eddc2

[obwan110]

Family Ramblings

I was reading a story online about 100-year-old lady from Canterbury area, New Zealand, and she was reminiscing about the past and that got me thinking about my childhood. I was born in the winter of 1977 Christchurch.

I remember having an old black and white TV in the Lounge and that didn't have very good reception so it hardly got used much and we also had an old rectangle radiogram, that my mother had purchased it only picked up AM radio and the record player would work sometimes until the needle broke. in about 1984 dad finally brought a color TV and then later followed a Commodore 64 computer, that I think my brother had asked my dad to buy.

In the hallway we also had an old telephone, one of those old dial ones, it was more of a toy to me as a child, it was disconnected. It wasn't till I was about 7 or 8 years old that we gotta push button phone I was so excited to have a phone I'd call my friends all the time and their parents would get angry at me, The novelty soon wore off.

I grew up in Spreydon, Christchurch New Zealand, my parents had brought a house For I think 28 or $30,000 just after my brother had been born. My parents stayed in that house until their deaths 10 and 13 years ago (2023). Before moving to Christchurch They were living in #Leeston where my brother was born (1973) Dad had been brought up in Leeston. His brothers and sister had all moved into Christchurch along with his father and stepmother, or should I say my grandfather and my step Nana, but I viewed her as my nana more as she was the only nana I knew growing up.

My mother was from Huntley, North Island of New Zealand. She was from a family of twelve brothers and sisters, I know I sound tired just saying that I don't know how Grandma Millie did it. My mom ended up down here because two of her sisters had moved down here, one was in Ashburton, and the other here in Christchurch.

Grandma Millie sent my mum down here to be with them, It wasn't long after that she met my dad. a few years later her sister got very sick with multiple sclerosis, MS, and passed away leaving behind my two cousins and their father,That hit my mother and family hard, as did losing any of her family.

All my Uncles and Aunties and Grandma Millie including my mum in Huntly circa 1960s. A few of them are alive today :-) Grandma passed away in 1984, With us being in Christchurch and Grandma being in Huntly I didn't get to know her, but some of my older cousins did, and have said she was a lovely women and grandma.

I have only gotten to know my other aunties and uncles and their children (cousins) through Facebook which is better than nothing, and had a relationship with my aunty in Ashburton and their children. Me and mum would go down and stay there in the School Holidays, I loved going there as a child and teen, they had a pool and my uncle played the guitar and sang, and their home had a nicer vibe and was light.

Dad's side of the family, my grandad on the left, and all his brothers and sisters, in front is my great-grandfather John, he was an early settler Farmer in Sheffield and Ashburton Canterbury and later farmed in what is now the suburb Sockburn Christchurch. John married a Prebble, and it was her brother that started the small town of Prebbleton outside of Christchurch.

My Grandmother Nancy Second left and her Brother Reg Great Grandfather Elis in front, also a Farmer his farm house still stands on the way out to Leeston. He was buried in Leeston Cemetery.

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Almost the Last Post (for this time)

Day 58, Sunday, 12 February 2023

We arrived in Lyttleton, the port near Christchurch, in the early hours and although we could look around the port and nearby landscape from the deck, we were not allowed on shore until our selected tour became available.  For us, that meant 2 pm – or a little before so we could get up to the bus. We were tied up at the bunkering terminal and not allowed out there but were ferried to the marina in the lifeboats, with a long way to walk to the waiting bus.  The bus took us out of the dock area and up the hill to another bus that took us on our excursion.

I am guessing that we drove at least fifty kilometres, through old lava fields, pastoral and farming land, past Lake Ellesmere, and eventually to Manderley Farm.  It was an interesting drive that made me itch to return to NZ for a long, slow campervan adventure.  Of course, I was constantly scanning the area for birds and identified eleven species from the bus.

The road was pretty rough, very bouncy and at one point, there was a huge crash and jarring pain thumped through our backs – at least those passengers in the rear half of the bus. The back of the bus had bottomed out and hit the road very violently, obviously a common event because the driver never even blinked.

At the farm, we were treated to a sheepdog demonstration that was pretty amazing.  There were eight merinos half a kilometre or more up the hill from where we were standing, and the farmer released one of the farm dogs and controlled it with a small whistle.  It was very windy and I imagined that the dog would not be able to hear the whistle – it was quite faint to me and I was only ten metres away – but the farmer used long and short whistles in two pitches to tell the dog to go left or right, to approach the sheep, to stop and sit, etc., and within a few minutes, the whole little flock were down the hill and through the correct gate and to within a couple of metres of thirty humans.  Then the situation was reversed and all the humans were ushered back up the hill by a different dog – no, no!  Not the humans, it was the sheep!

We then went into the shearing shed and heard a bit more about the wool industry and the evil Chinese who manipulate prices to cheat honest Kiwi farmers out of a fair return – and in no time, the Chinese were being blamed for virtually everything that could possibly go wrong for the poor farmer.  I am sure there is some truth in his assertion but I think he overplayed his hand. The Chinese probably don’t control the local weather – just as a ‘for instance’.  Despite all of that, we still got to watch him shear a sheep – a young one, about 6 months old, getting its first haircut.

We then went through a really beautiful garden to where his wife had drinks for us to accompany the shortbreads and delicious sausage rolls.  It was all very nice and civilised, quite countrified,  and then it was back to the ship.  The bus took us back to the second bus that is apparently the only bus allowed to enter the port area (no idea why).  That bus delivered us to the lifeboat waiting at the end of the marina and that delivered us back to the ship.

We finalised the last of our packing and were ready to disembark.  During the bus trip, Heather had a series of emails with our wonderful travel agent (Thank you Bev!) who had been monitoring the cyclone (Gabrielle) threatening Auckland.  She is an absolute gem and arranged for us to stay at the Christchurch Airport hotel and fly with Qantas direct to Melbourne at the crack of dawn on Tuesday – instead of flying to Auckland and waiting nobody-knows-how-long to fly home with Air New Zealand.  That was really great – but I wonder if we will ever recover the extra cost from our parsimonious insurer, NIB.  Time will tell.

Day 59, Monday, 13 February 2023

We were up at 6 am and quickly dressed and ate breakfast for the last time this trip.  There were lots of goodbyes, most of which were repeated half an hour later as we gathered to collect our passports and pass NZ Immigration and Customs – a very quick and easy process.  Then it was on to the shuttle to take us to central Christchurch where we got a cab to the airport hotel – the Sudima.

When Bev managed to change our flight, we tried to change our booking for the shuttle from 7.30 to 8.30 but the ship said everything was locked in and they couldn’t change it.  As a result, we had an enjoyable ride into the city with the bus entirely to ourselves.  We had a driver and a guide who was very friendly and chatty, but it did seem a little excessive – surely a cab would have been cheaper or they could have made an exception and put us on the 8.30 shuttle, but not so.  We were quite happy and where we were dropped in the city, a second guide called a cab for us and we were on our way to the Sudima within five minutes maximum.

Of course, arriving at the hotel at 8 am meant they didn’t have a room available until noon at the earliest but we just sat in comfort in the foyer, logged on to their Wi-Fi and did a bit more writing.  Despite the noon deadline, we were in our room a tad after 10.30 with an upgrade to a very well-appointed suite.  So who’s complaining?  Not us!

We each went out for a short walk and found a shopping centre immediately adjacent to the hotel. It has a few restaurants, and we ate at a Chinese one – and found that the Chinese are not responsible for everything going bad.  It was an enjoyable meal at a reasonable price, within very easy walking distance from our hotel.

Day 60, Tuesday, 14 February 2023

We were up and dressed by 3 am and ready to go to the airport. Officially, we were supposed to be at the airport three hours before an international flight so we should have been there by 3 am for our 7 am flight - but the hotel staff told us that 3:45 would be fine (the terminal doesn’t open until 3 am anyway).

Of course, I had been awake for a couple of hours checking the clock every few minutes in case we were late, despite knowing that the alarm was set anyway.

We took the free shuttle and made it in plenty of time. We beat the crowds and were through the airport nightmare reasonably quickly - despite my carryon being examined in the finest detail by an overzealous officer. She did find a small jar of a special spread we had carried for at least 25,000 kilometres as a gift for our travel agent. She decided that it was a liquid and was just over 100 mls so I am sure she will enjoy it herself.

We had over an hour and a half to wait to board and then sat on the plane for another hour while they fixed some problem with the electronics. We left more than an hour late with a promise to make up the time during the flight.

Of course, as usual, I sat behind an ignorant ratbag who tilted his seat back as far as it would go and refused my polite request for him to be a bit more reasonable. I had maybe 15 centimetres from my nose to his seat. I simply don’t understand why they have reclining seats in planes. I paid for my standard 28 inches of space but he thought he was entitled to steal seven of them.

We arrived at Tullamarine only 40 minutes late and got through the crowd relatively quickly.  We had previously been told that our passports are not e-passports, but an attendant assured us that they were and that saved us at least an hour of two in the queue.  I wish we had known that before – it could have saved us days of queueing over the life of our passports.

There was a long wait for our baggage, but it all arrived safely and we eventually escaped the Hell that characterises every airport in the world.  Our Tony’s Taxi was waiting (Thanks again Bev) and we had a very comfortable trip home.

I collected our accumulated mail from the past two months or so (three mail items and two junk mails) and we spent the rest of the day unpacking and sorting all the clobber from the trip.

One really helpful factor was that we were able to repack a surprising amount of stuff straight back into our cases, in some cases, once the laundry was completed.  About four days later, we are about 90% packed for our next trip.  Watch this space!

Summary

How do I summarise such a diverse trip? I did a bit of a summary at the end of our first voyage so I will not rehash that, but our week or so in Ushuaia was an opportunity to catch our breath and explore a little of the tip of South America. It was a nice stopover but without any particular highlights.

The more recent voyage did include some highlights, not the least of which was reaching 78 degrees 44 minutes South latitude. And I have just stumbled on an online article that emphasises the significance of that. I recommend that you have a quick read at https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article/2969915/coast-guard-cutter-polar-star-sets-world-record-with-voyage-to-antarctica/. And note that the Spirit of Enderby is the ship that took us to Antarctica three years ago. By my calculations, the 1.32 seconds by which the US Coast Guard holds the record is equivalent to a bit under 41 metres that our ship could easily have beaten if we had just nudged up a bit closer to the ice. I doubt if we got within a hundred metres of it and I thought at the time that the Captain was being his usual conservative self, notwithstanding his expressed disappointment that we never set a new record.

Walking on the ice, particularly at Mt Siple, but also at Cape Hallett, gave me a big buzz - it was quite a unique experience.

Watching the ship crunch through the thick ice was also fascinating, even awe-inspiring, as we faced a solid wall of ice up to at least three metres thick - and simply smashed our way through. An amazing sight.

I loved the storms - Nature in the raw. They didn’t impact the ship to any great extent but watching the swell and huge clouds of spindrift was quite exciting. And seeing so much snow that decorated the external areas of the ship for several days was something quite new for me.

The wildlife is always a highlight although I never thought as much about it at the time this trip. But we saw five species of seals, millions (literally) of penguins, ninety-six species of birds and a few whales. We have probably seen more and more variety on other trips, but this was still impressive.

The Captain’s conservatism or risk-averseness meant we lost several opportunities to experience more but we had no control over that – unfortunately, he is God on board.

The food was fine, perhaps not quite what we expected from French chefs but perfectly adequate. The staff were brilliant and the lectures the best we have had on any previous trip. And ‘all you can drink’ for about 18 hours a day makes up for a lot.

All in all, it was a great trip with some once in a lifetime experiences that I will never forget. I just need time to cement the memories more securely before we embark on yet another extraordinary series of adventures.

[ohnonotagainnz]

Scenic Drive

the friend i met at the farm who i'm staying with here in Christchurch took me on a nice drive through the hills around the city

[wilkersonneergaard99]

Traveling is something that most people would like to do. A lucky few get to travel to exotic places around the world. Try saving a little bit of money and set a goal. It doesn't matter if you plan on going somewhere domestic or international. A piggy bank is a great way to start. Spare change adds up fast! If you have no money to spare don't fret. A hike in the woods or a short trip to view local sites, can be just as fulfilling!

Tip your hotel service personnel. A small tip can make the greatest difference in your stay. If you do not tip, the maid who services your room may feel slighted by the lack of financial gratitude and this could lead to the neglect of your room as well as supply of soaps and shampoos. Your luggage carrier, when properly paid, could suggest the great spots around town. If you are traveling in a poorer country, consider purchasing a large woven sack, like the type used to transport potatoes or other vegetables. Put your bag into this sack, and it is protected from dust, bugs, and moisture. It also nicely camouflages your possesions against thieves, as they will see a bag of farm goods instead of a tourist's bag. When traveling on an airplane, always be sure to have everything you would need for the next day in your carry on. Since your carry on is always with you, you can be sure that if they will loose your luggage that you will be able to get by on the next day. In most cases, airlines should have your luggage to you by then. If you are traveling overseas, you may want to consult a health practitioner about what vaccinations are recommended. Different areas of the world have different diseases and you always want to be prepared for what you are walking into. There are plenty of vaccinations out there that can keep you safe. If you are traveling road-trip style and you have a smart phone, try downloading apps such as GasBuddy so you can look up what gas stations have the cheaper prices before you get into town. Spending Car Hire Christchurch -11 cents more per gallon can add up to quite a lot of extra cash that you could be spending elsewhere. Planning your travel in advance is always good advice to follow. Make sure to plan your trip at least a month or a few weeks in advance to ensure you have enough time to make changes. Planning ahead leaves more room for error and gives you more time to get the best deals on travel packages. Before you go through airport security, make sure you put the extra change or your car keys in your carry-on. Keeping the line backed up because you have to take change out of every cargo pocket is a nuisance but easily avoidable. With that said, loosen your shoes laces before you get to the bin area so you slide your shoes off. If you need to travel across the country but are on a limited budget, consider traveling by bus. In the past, bus travel was viewed somewhat unfavorably, but today major players like Greyhound, have made major improvements to attract the growing number of travelers who can't afford plane tickets. Today bus lines are a more civil experience. Cleaner, newer buses are the norm and most stations offer free wireless internet access and sundries. Reading online user reviews can be a great way to find out about your vacation destination. There are various sites available, with multiple reviews from both travel professionals and every day people. Reading a few reviews can help you find the best hotels, most popular restaurants, and great out of the way places to consider visiting during your travels. Airports are not always the safest places to be. While in an airport you should always keep a close watch on your belongings. Flights are becoming very crowded; airports are also getting extremely crowded. Always be aware of your surroundings and closely watch your tickets, purses, wallets, and other personal belongings at all times. Traveling can be easy and something that works for everybody, no matter what the budget looks like. Things that require little effort, yet are satisfying, are often the best way to go and traveling can fit that bill! So plan a trip, set a timeline and make it happen. You can find something enjoyable to suit you!

[catbountry]

I saw that post telling people to block you because you were a KF mod and followed you lmao. I don’t have an account but I’ve been lurking pretty hard for a few years now

I try to stay out of the heavily politcal forums because they quickly tend to fuck me off. What happened with Null? He always struck me as a fairly decent guy

Null is, like most people, complex. I have given him a lot of credit for his work trying to help Chris-chan, which was one of the biggest reasons I never wrote him off completely and was convinced that he was not entirely bad. But this is also a guy who, in a post detailing his dilemma between continuing to keep the site up and quitting to have his desired tradwife with multiple children, felt the need to say that single parents and gay parents cannot properly raise children and that children raised by those families have a higher rate of becoming criminals. You know, that type of shit. This was a completely unnecessary tangent to the point he was trying to make about how much the site was eating into his life, but he felt the need to make it anyway, just because.

His handling of the request from the New Zealand police to take down the footage of the Christchurch shooting also probably did more to draw in Christchurch shooter fanboys, who infected the thread on the situation. While Null was legally within his rights to deny this request, he did so in the most inflammatory way possible, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that after he posted his open letter to the NZ police, calling New Zealand a “shithole country” among other things, that you had more posts in support of the massacre. There was one post I remember responding to in which the poster was mad that the shooter didn’t kill himself afterwards or die in a shootout, because then he would have been more of a martyr for the cause and he wouldn’t do damage to it by, say, having one of his cringey letters from jail posted to the Farms, exposing him for the fucking edgelord loser he is. This poster was mad… because the shooter made the cause of white nationalism and his plans to start a race war though accelerationism via gun control laws… look bad. Like, bruh.

For me, I feel like Null’s reluctance to do anything about these people, even though he knew they were a problem in the community and they were driving away many of the old guard users, spoke a lot about his character. I felt afraid to ban any of these people for being fucking idiots because I thought I’d get shit for overstepping my bounds as a mod. I know Null felt very strongly about First Amendment protections; I do as well, and it’s probably one of the only bits of common ground we share politically. But at the same time, by creating an environment where merely challenging these guys feels more and more like a lost cause because they keep coming in, well, it’s not exactly conducive to free and open discussion, now is it?

This approach worked a lot better when the forum was smaller, where the community itself would dogpile upon these type of posters to make fun of them. Yes, they would be allowed to say the shit they wanted to say, but they always had pushback from the userbase. Hell, we had an entire subforum dedicated to at least one flavor of the types of users that made the site less tolerable, that being the Manosphere subforum. These were in the days where Null was less overtly political. As Null began to more openly espouse his opinions on topics outside of the realm of free speech, it acted as sort of a signal to these potential posters that they’d be welcome here, because, well, the admin shared a lot of their racist and homophobic views.

I should also note that Null is often mistakenly attributed as being the founder of the Farms; he wasn’t, though he was head admin when Kiwi Farms changed its name from the CWCki Forums. The original founder was a user named Champthom, who from what I’ve seen, seems pretty chill, but either couldn’t or didn’t want to be in charge of keeping the site running. Null had experience from 8chan in running a site, and in the early days, Null did try and keep his politics to himself, which allowed the forum to not be very hostile when discussing politics. I remember many users saying that this was a benefit to the Farms in the early days, as they felt like they could express opposing opinions without feeling like Internet Bloodsports… which hadn’t even become a thing yet. Boy, that candle burnt bright and fizzled out quickly, huh?

After Trump got elected, Null just kept getting bolder and bolder with expressing his views, like when Null practically welcomed self-proclaimed and proud fascist Weev into his own thread with open arms. There’s a lot of free speech advocates who view Weev as something of a martyr due to his time in prison (it’s also worth noting that Weev became a fascist in prison, while under the protection of the Aryan Nation), but when I asked Weev about his conflict of interest in advocating for absolute freedom of speech while also wanting a fascist government, Weev flat-out stated that freedom of speech was little more than a means to an end for him before spewing a bunch of nonsense about the fall of Rome or some shit I didn’t even ask about. Null, to his credit, has begrudgingly allowed threads on people who he would prefer didn’t have threads and doesn’t see as lolcows (like Emily Youcis, who he definitely has or at least had a crush on), but he makes sure to complain about it in those threads. By that point, I felt like I was managing a bunch of threads and felt that, should I leave, that those mini communities might fall apart. I could have left at any time, but didn’t, because I kept inventing reasons in my head about why things might get worse if I left. I felt like I was one of the few voices willing to challenge these points of view. This was all me doing this to myself, though. Null never forced or pressured me into staying. And as I’ve said before, he accepted my resignation quite gracefully, and dissolved the Tumblr subforum upon my departure, since that subforum was the main one I managed.

Null has done some good things, like helping Chris out after the house fire, or getting him out of the grasp of the Idea Guys. Null also regularly likes to drop slurs in his posts and make some jokes that are pretty nnnnyyyeehhhh, but as soon as two dudes on YouTube try and make fun of a pitiful apology from a zoosadist, he fucking loses his shit because that’s just too far. At first I used to just attribute a lot of his actions due to him just being a *chan edgelord libertarian dude. He’s fallen deeper and deeper into the siren song of the trad dream, however, but he also will never be able to attain it so long as he keeps the site up. He knows this. He’s said as much himself. But he keeps the site up and running out of spite, because he knows a lot of people, including a lot of very bad, nasty people, would celebrate when it shuts down. He almost did shut the site down on the day of Trump’s inauguration due to threats his mother was getting, but it came back up in a month.

A part of me looks at Null helping Chris, or Null’s very personal and intense involvement in covering the zoosadist leaks, and I think he is capable of doing a lot of good. That part of Null I admire. But it’s really hard to say that he’s a decent guy when he sees a clip of Stephen Colbert making fun of Emily Youcis being fired from her job as the Pistachio Girl for the fucking vile, racist shit she said on social media and his response is to call Colbert a “kike.” Like Jesus, dude. You even got the man’s ethnicity wrong; he’s Irish. I know he hasn’t been that funny for a long time but god damn.

I’ve said a lot about Null here, and a lot of my criticisms of him, and admittedly, I feel a twinge of regret for it because despite all these disagreements and clashes we had, he still seems to have some respect for me for some reason. I mean, I was a jannie for like five years; I did this for free. It’s very strange. I don’t wish to make an enemy out of him, but he’s a big boy, I’m sure he can handle some criticism on the internet, and I think I’ve been more generous than some people would prefer. Realistically I don’t think he’d be too miffed but, you know. Anxiety and all.

Also, if nothing else, Null making Ethan Ralph’s life even more of a living hell is pretty funny. Unlike Null, I have absolutely nothing nice to say about Ethan Ralph at all. That man is scum of the earth and I will gladly watch from the sidelines as Null’s continued existence torments Ralph, who is already tormenting himself enough with literally every single decision he has made and will continue to make in his life. I know it’s not much of an accomplishment to be a better person than The Gunt, it’s a pretty low bar, but between the dude who was willing to help Chris-chan out of multiple situations with trolls and even raise money to send him to a brony con, and the dude who recorded Chris-chan on his livestream to try and get an interview with him solely for clout and to get back at the first guy, I will side with the first dude. That’s just me, though.

[tealin]

Long Trail to McMurdo, Part 3: Christchurch

10 November 2019

The last time I was in New Zealand, I was making what I thought was the trip of a lifetime. It was January 2018, and, assuming a trip to Antarctica was unlikely, this was the last gap I had to fill in my research. New Zealand being the jumping-off and landing point for most of the British expeditions of the Heroic Age, not only are there many Antarctic-related locations, but a great deal of stuff has been deposited here as well, as the collection at the Canterbury Museum attests. My aim was to visit there, see the departure ports of Lyttelton and Port Chalmers and the return port of Oamaru, and get what I could out of the Kinsey correspondence at the National Library in Wellington. The trip turned out to be hugely successful – I got everything I needed and more, as well as an appreciation for the openness and generosity of New Zealanders, which happily hasn't changed from a hundred years ago.

I flew from Los Angeles this time rather than Vancouver, on a ticket bought for me by the US Antarctic Program, en route to that destination which, last time I was here, I was sure I would never reach. Landing in Auckland and making the transfer to Christchurch, it certainly did not feel as though it had been nearly two whole years since I was here. This time, instead of having to figure out the buses into town, I was met by a USAP representative at baggage claim and, because she was travelling that way anyway, got a lift to the hostel where I'd be staying, a short walking distance from the USAP's headquarters and within sight of the International Antarctic Centre. And it was only just noon.

My to-do list this time was much more prosaic: Buy some possum gloves and some Antarctic postcards, and get out to Lyttelton to photograph the landscape in spring, because this is right in the middle of when the Terra Nova was in town. I had expected this to be a rush job, but my flight was booked a day earlier than planned, so I ticked off the gloves and a quick visit to the museum in the course of a leisurely stroll on a blazing hot day, stopping for a while near the Scott statue to cool my feet in the Avon, and filling up on what Kiwis call 'meat on chips' but which I've mentally assigned 'Turkish poutine.' It was astonishing how readily I remembered my way around town, and I marvelled at the apparent back-pocket familiarity with a city so far from anywhere I've ever lived. I suppose it made an impression.

Something else that makes an impression is going straight from LA to Christchurch. Most of the cities on the West Coast – but California particularly – always have 'The Big One,' the city-flattening earthquake, hovering at the back of consciousness. Christchurch has had theirs. The Cathedral is a ruin, a lot of historical buildings came down, people died, and the last nine years has been spent rebuilding and establishing a new normal. I never knew the place before, but the loss is still near the surface, and the economy must still be struggling as both the pubs I wanted to visit again have since closed. But, from a West Coast perspective, it is heartening to see that, having gone through The Big One, one comes out the other side, and there is another side. This is it. Christchurch is living it. The city is damaged, but still there. The people are carrying on. I have to wonder if LA would see it through with quite so much grace, rather than descend into anarchy, but it's good to know it's possible.

Saturday I devoted to Lyttelton. Christchurch is a major commercial centre but is built on a flat coastal plain; great for farming but not for shipping. However, it butts onto a peninsula made by a blown-out and flooded volcano, which affords several deep bays, and in one of these is nestled the port of Lyttelton. I really enjoy this quirky harbour town; I think if I lived anywhere in New Zealand I'd be happiest here. It suffered more than Christchurch in the quakes, but even now still feels more like stepping back in time – in fact, more than anywhere except possibly London, it feels like stepping into a book, though in Lyttelton's case, perhaps, that may just be me.

I got the necessary photos shortly after arriving. As the Time Ball has been rebuilt since my last visit, I hiked up there and got some unnecessary photos, and just enjoyed being for a while. Lyttelton is a good place to be happy. I hope I manage to communicate this in the few pages devoted to it in the book.

Sunday morning was taken up with the issuing of kit at the Clothing Distribution Centre, which will get its own post next week. It was my first direct onsite interaction with the USAP, and although it boiled down to trying on second-hand clothes, it was the moment when everything really started to feel it was happening.

We were done before noon, and the rest of the day was ours. Having done my town bit already, feeling a bit overdone, and expecting a belting of rain this afternoon, I retired to the hostel to organise some promised lectures and write this post.

Tomorrow will be mine as well, until the evening when I'm supposed to check in and be updated on the flight. It's supposed to be cold and windy, but I may end up going to Lyttelton again. That's a book I want to spend more time in.

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this date in music history

Today in music in history...

August 17th 1955 - Elvis Presley Elvis Presley released what would become his first No.1 hit, 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget / Mystery Train'. It hit the top of the country charts several months later and stayed there for 5 weeks.

1959 - Miles Davis American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue which is regarded by many critics as jazz's greatest record, Davis's masterpiece, and one of the best albums of all time. Its influence on music, including jazz, rock, and classical genres, has led writers to also deem it one of the most influential albums ever recorded.

1960 - The Beatles The Beatles began their first Hamburg engagement at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany, playing the first of 48 nights at the Club. The owner, Bruno Koschmider, asked The Beatles to "Mach Shau", or really put on a show, which led to the band screaming, shouting, and leaping about the stage and sometimes playing lying on the floor. John Lennon once appeared wearing only his underwear and on another occasion, wearing a toilet seat around his neck. The Beatles lodged in a single room behind the screen of a nearby movie house.

1964 - The Beatles Glasgow council in Scotland announced that all boys and men with Beatle styled haircuts would have to wear bathing caps after a committee was told that hair from 'Beatle-cuts' was clogging the pools filters.

1965 - The Byrds The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets had been sold.

1968 - Doors The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Waiting For The Sun. The group's third album spawned their second US No.1 single, 'Hello, I Love You'.

1968 - Young Rascals The Rascals (formerly the Young Rascals), started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'People Got To Be Free'. The group had thirteen US top 40 hits.

1969 - Woodstock Festival The final day of the 3 day Woodstock Festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organisers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert.

1973 - Paul Williams Former Temptations singer Paul Williams was found dead in his car, after shooting himself. He owed $80000 in taxes and his celebrity boutique business had failed.

1974 - Eric Clapton Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 461 Ocean Boulevard, a No.3 hit in the UK. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida near Miami where Clapton lived while making the album.

1979 - Anita Pallenberg The New York Post reported that Anita Pallenberg (the wife of Keith Richards) was linked to a witches coven in South Salem, New York where Richards owned a house. A policeman claimed he was attacked by a flock of black-hooded, caped people and a local youth claimed he had been invited by Pallenburg to take part in ‘pot smoking sex orgies’. Locals also claimed they found ‘ritualistic stakes’ and small animals that had been ‘sacrificed’ near the house.

1999 - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd.

2008 - Jackson Browne Jackson Browne was suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. Browne claimed the use of his song Running on Empty in an advert was an infringement of copyright and would lead people to conclude he endorses McCain. Browne was seeking more than $75,000 (£40,000) in damages.

2009 - Pink Floyd A thief in New Zealand took the unusual step of leaving his contact details at the site of his crime. The man reserved a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall at a record shop in Christchurch, leaving his name and phone number, before robbing the till. He was a regular customer at the shop and already had several records on order

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BTS Bon Voyage Season 4

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BTS Bon Voyage is an exclusive BTS show where the boys travel to a foreign country without their managers and thus have to live on their own.

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Release: Nov 19, 2019 - Jan 7, 2020

Destination: New Zealand

This season was released on Weverse

Teaser : The 4th Adventure of BTS

Preview: clip 1, clip 2, clip 3, clip 4

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Preview (Facebook album)

Official clips: Ep.3, Ep.4, Ep.5, Ep.6, Ep.7

Suga’s recipes provided by Hello Nature (archive)

Tweets from the boys:

190918 Jin

190918 RM and Jimin

190919 SUGA

190920 RM

190921 j-hope by Jimin

190921 SUGA

190923 Jimin by RM

190923 V

190924 RM

190924 SUGA by V

191013 V for Jimin’s birthday

191013 RM for Jimin’s birthday

191015 Jimin being grateful after his birthday

191214 V

191214 V

191230 j-hope for V’s birthday

191230 Jimin for V’s birthday

The boys extended their break from August with this new season that was filmed in New Zealand, in September 2019. They did a camping trip this time. The suitcases they used were from RIMOWA. As they traveled using a Hyundai car, the official account of the brand posted some tweets about it (eng trans by BTS Trans).

They arrived at Christchurch international airport and directly headed to the RV Super Centre, via a SuperShuttle, to rent their vehicles.

Before starting their journey, they went to Speight’s Ale House to eat, as well as to Kathmandu Tower Junction and Kosco to buy equipment and food.

Then they hit the road, first stopping at Highway cafe, then at Lake Lyndon and then at Porters Lodge where they spent the night and the day after.

After a hike in the mountain, they left the lodge. They stopped in Geraldine to fill the tank and buy more clothes. After that, they went to the Farm Barn Cafe. The SUV team left early to buy food at the Four Square Supermarket of Tekapo and they all reunited at the observatory of Mt John.

They spend the night at Lake Tekapo Holiday Park and Backpackers Lodge, in this cabin. They went back to the same Four Square Supermarket in the morning and then left for Mt Cook. On their way, they stopped here to enjoy the view of the Lake Pukaki. I assume they did the Hooker Valley Track, starting from here.

After their first camping night, they went to clean and relax at Hot Tubs Omarama. It’s there that the picture of Jimin with a rainbow on his check was taken, and in the background of said picture, you can see a Hongi. Then they went to Nevis Bungy for some extreme sport. The group split again: Suga, RM, V, and Jung Kook went grocery shopping at the Countdown from Queenstown while Jin, j-hope, and Jimin directly went to Kinloch Lodge.

After a night at the camping site, they drove to Greenstone Valley to take a flight with the Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters and have fun at the glacier on Mt. Aspiring. Then, Jimin and V stayed in Greenstone Valley to do horse/bike riding while Jin, SUGA, j-hope, and Jung Kook went fishing salmon with Queenstown Fishing on Lake Wakatipu (the editors probably made a mistake because it’s written Lake Taupo on the screen and Lake Taupo is in the Northern Island). RM came back to Kinloch Lodge to work.

The boys finished their trip at Queenstown, where they stayed in a rented house called The Views by Touch of Spice. They also went to Skyline Queenstown to do luge after taking the gondola. In the afternoon, Jin, SUGA, and Jung Kook went fishing, V went to the Ivan Clark Gallery and sat under this tree (he also went there and here in the Behind episode), while j-hope, RM, and Jimin biked to The Boatshed Cafe, most likely following this itinerary.

In the last episode, we saw V pursuing his walk around downtown Queenstown and stopping by the Remarkable Gifts shop,  while j-hope, RM, and Jimin biked to a park before going grocery shopping at the Freshchoice of Queenstown.

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ooooo new zealand! where in nz are u going

I’m flying into Christchurch cause the first work I have organised is on a farm in Canterbury, then I’m heading steadily north to follow the good weather to subsequent farms after that. I’ve been to NZ before, back in 2012 and I wanna definitely hit Kaikoura again at some point, but then I’m staying for a small spell in Wellington with relatives and then HOPEFULLY hiring a car in the north island cause I really wanna get up to the Coromandel peninsula, and then I’m flying home from Auckland whenever.

It’s an open ticket so I could be there for a month, could be six!!! Point is, I won’t have regular internet access sooooo please don’t think I’ve just abandoned the clown movie lifestyle ✊😔

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Day 3. February 1, 2020. Christchurch to Mt. Cook Village. 355km.

After a solid night's rest at our nicely appointed 3 level apartment in the Merivale neighborhood, the task of figuring out the best way to load all the gear/clothes on the bike was the first challenge of the day. With the large rolling duffel left at the bike shop I was pretty confident that everything would fit, but since I would be in a tough spot if it didn't, there was some trepidation as I bought my first pannier liner (borrowed from the Multistrada) down to the bike. The Duc has different sized panniers as one side's volume is cut nearly in half to accommodate and the Italian emphasis on aesthetics. The BMW has frame mounted and equally sized rectangular Givi plastic panniers. Our rental company informed us yesterday that although these bags have a triple clip closures and were supposed to be waterproof, they weren't "New Zealand rain-proof" as the southern and western portions of this island have rainfall measured in feet not inches! 🌧 I brought down the wider bag hoping that it would fit. Murphy once again intervened and it seemed a couple inches too wide. I decided to zip up the expansion section with some side of my body mass the same clothes were smashed a couple inches. Alas, still no go on the bag. So, a retreat to the third floor to rejigger everything. Let's just say I was glad I brought a 70l dry bag for the bike's tail. I needed it once I had to remove some items from my side/pannier. Anyway as I secured my heavier than expected tail bag with my trusty Rok Straps and slipped onto Papanui Road headed for the Southern Alps, I didn't pop a wheelie and felt that logistics weren't now just in need of some tweaking. A system to organize and pack is key to making the daily cycles of unpacking, loading, unloading, repacking an easy and stress-free task. The 70l bag gave me a large margin of error so I did overpack knowing I had this extra room if needed.

Saturday AM brought us little traffic as we rode along the other side of Hagley Park into the Westfield Riccarton area of CHC. A few other bikes were on the road and within 15-20' we started increasing our speed (in accordance with the posted limits, mostly 😉) as we left CHC and development behind. We rode past some of those horse racing tracks and saw a few jockeys wheeling around on their sulkies. For an hour or more we headed west and a bit south enmeshed in a patchwork of farmland. Flat, broken up by Irish style hedges and trees that were manicured and coerced into natural fence lines blocking wind effectively while creating visual barriers. Some small towns and without breakfast (not like me) I was tempted to call for a stop but we were aiming for Fairlie, where a few folks had impressed upon us the need to sample the pie 🥧 in Fairlie. Now when I hear pie, I'm thinking fruit. Usually cherry or apple. But the pies of note on our radar were of the meat variety! I didn't want to ruin my appetite. After a couple hours something changed. We made a turn in the road that wasn't a left or right, but an undulation. Wait, was that a hillside up ahead? All of a sudden we were in the foothills. Gone the flat farms of sheep, cows and agriculture. Now we were winding on increasingly common twisties. As we gained elevation the ambient temp dropped from around 22°C all the way down to 13.5°C (about 56°, still not really cold). We did end up stopping for a light bite in Geraldine at the Running Duck. I had a Coconut Ice (smoothie) and a heated raisin danish. A Ducati monster was parked there and he was stretching out in a chaise type lounger soaking up the sun. Bubba the elephant allowed the local server to locate us outside as most tables were full with travelers. We had taken the inland road which was recommended as more scenic and less traffic. At Geraldine we joined the main commercial road conducting summer crowds up to the Alps and Mt. Cook. A fuel stop there after the danish and off to Fairlie. We chose the Fairlie Bakery and despite the hype, were not disappointed with the buttered chicken and mushroom pie. 😋 We had passed some more interesting farms that included emu, caribou, deer, alpaca along with the more common farm animals. We were now traversing and crossing glacial runoff/moraine. The distinctive turquoise color of the glacial water is visually magnetic. 👀 It is caused by the silt or "rock flour" the water carries and is very distinctive.

Next on the Day 3 hit parade were two stunning glacial lakes. Lake Tekapo and the oft photographed stone Church of the Good Shepherd prompted a photo stop along with a hundred Chinese tourists. It sits near the road overlooking the colorful lake with a view of Mt. Cook aka "Aoraki" in Maori towering to 12,218'. Loads of small RV's everywhere too! #rvlife Riding past Tekapo on to Lake Pukaki which was equally turquoise. Afternoon had brought us a high, thin overcast which kept us from capturing the water's full visual splendor. It is still over 50kms from Pukaki to the end of the road here in Mt. Cook village as you wind up the valley and the glacial run-off becomes a river feeding the lake. There are a number of sizable glaciers here. We are going to tour glaciers by boat later on the ride at Milford Sound so we'll just enjoy the blue glacier ice from the valley floor today. There are a number of well marked trails through the unique alpine environment here as the whole area is a national park. Some trails through woods, others pass over hills to provide panoramic views of the Hooker and Tasman glaciers (the matter is the longest in NZ). Lodging here is limited and we opted to stay at the very nice Hermitage resort. Upon check-in we were informed the room wasn't ready. A bit of persuasion involving the manager whom we requested promptly solved the 1 1/2 hour previously proclaimed delay for a room not yet ready and a corner room with a spectacular view was provided. 😊 We're gonna explore the area for a bit now and hardly think the pics will do today justice but I'll attach 10 to follow. The weather has held off and so far no rain. Tomorrow is supposed to be different but we'll see if the meteorologists are again proven to be inaccurate. We walked through a heavily wooded seemingly tropical path on the way to a dinner which was accompanied by some dense bushes, trees and stairs. A bit of interesting history regarding Aoraki. Sir Edmund Hillary, a Kiwi born in Auckland who is best known for being the first man to climb Everest, cut his teeth on this mountain. 6 years prior to his successful assault on Everest with Tenzing Norgay he was learning the skills needed for the Himalayas right here. https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28327/hillary-and-ayres-on-aorakimt-cook-1947 Mt. Cook has claimed over 80 lives this past century.

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Lake Tekapo: New Zealand from the picture book

Two, three hours I stayed here and took wonderful impressions with me. Then I went on via "Twizel" and "Omarama" to finally reach "Oamaru" on the east coast. You can find it in one of the videos, here in the gallery below. Read more about campervan hire New Zealand here.

Milford Sound Road - 14 unforgettable activities

It is a love that glows in ever new colours thanks to the interplay of the seasons. Already in the 80s people fought against the light smog in this region.

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If you travel to Lake Tekapo from the south, you probably start in Wanaka or Queenstown.Cowans Hill trail follows the river, then back into a forest and finally up a hill at Lake Tekapo. The hike is almost entirely on flat trails and takes just three hours in total. Each review is checked for swear words and their authenticity before we add them to the Booking.com site. With the help of functional cookies, our site works properly. Lake House Tekapo is a spacious holiday home with a terrace in Lake Tekapo. You can use the private parking spaces free of charge. Lake Tekapo Lodge on New Zealand's South Island is an oasis of peace. The lodge is located 3 hours drive southwest of Christchurch and offers beautiful views over Lake Tekapo and the surrounding mountains from the lakeshore. In summer, the bright turquoise is joined by a variety of colours on the shore when the lupines in purple, white or orange begin to bloom.

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The lake is so picturesquely situated that we preferred the route via the interior of the country on the route that leads to Timaru. At Twizel it's worth a stopover at "High Country Salmon". On this quite well known salmon farm you can have lunch and also take fresh fish with you. Lake Tekapop is located in the Mackenzie District, a sparsely populated, almost deserted region in New Zealand.

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Homestay Accommodation in New Zealand

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The house is located in the centre of Te Anau and only a few minutes walk from the lake. Ideally located in the heart of the city, just a few minutes walk from the Avon River, Botanical Gardens, Cashel Mall and the future Christchurch Convention Centre. 75 km from Paihia and 50 km from Waipoua Forest. In some places you will stay a little more comfortable with category four accommodation. When we speak of category one, we mean very basic accommodation in a cabin with simple facilities, where you will only be staying if you are on a multi-day trek. On your next trip, book one of the many activities offered by local hosts. So every article was written with a lot of heart and effort by backpackers who are in the middle of their Work & Travel adventure. The students live in the family's house and usually move into their own room. The meals are taken together with the hosts, who are happy to help their guests find their way around New Zealand. Hotels in Auckland, the modern, vibrant cosmopolitan cityCamping in New ZealandAn inexpensive and, for many, the best way to travel. The campsites in New Zealand meet European standards and can be found everywhere. A night in a tent costs about NZ$10 per person. Imagine an eco-lodge in the middle of the countryside or a boutique lodge where the owner cooks for you at a reasonable price. In our portfolio you will find the 10,000 hectare sheep farm as well as small boutique hotels in the city and the cosy holiday home with private beach. If you prefer a cottage in the vineyards or a beautifully situated Bed&Breakfast with a view of the ocean, we also offer this. One of the most beautiful ways to experience New Zealand up close is the Farmstay option.

Accommodation prices will vary depending on the number of beds in a room.chalets are well equipped, they even have a small kitchenette. 5-star hotels in Auckland cost an average of around €202.51 per night this weekend (based on prices from Booking.com). It's the diversity of accommodation that ensures that you're not just sleeping somewhere, but that your accommodation is truly a part of your journey and experience.

Read more about campervan hire New Zealand here. Here you can find the most comprehensive packing list for Work and Travel on the Internet! With the packing list, which the partner platform Auslandsjob.de kindly provides, you can plan your stay abroad perfectly. Yes, I would like to receive the free tips for planning my Work and Travel stay. I have taken note of the privacy policy and understand that my data will be collected and stored electronically. You can rent entire apartments or a private room there. The prices depend strongly on the location of the apartments and of course also on their quality.

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FAQ Australia

New Zealand also claims the 4.75 million km² Ross Dependency in Antarctica. This uninhabited southern polar region consists of the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf and the eastern and northeastern Victorialand. The insurance companies have special offers for companies. Working-Holiday-Visum.de is the leading specialist portal for Working Holiday Visa and the organisation of Work & Travel stays. It is part of the INITIATIVE auslandszeit, Germany's largest network on the topic of ways abroad for young people. Hello, I am applying for a visa in Canada and wanted to ask which address I have to give? On arrival in New Zealand you must expect thorough checks, i.e. with sniffer dogs, as well as screening. Violations of the import regulations will be relentlessly charged with money (usually at least 400,- NZ Dollars) and if necessary The application for a Work and Travel Visa usually takes no longer than 45 minutes and all questions must be answered in English. How and where you can apply for a Work and Travel Visa for Australia and what it costs you will find out in this article. Applying for a Working Holiday Visa for New Zealand can seem like a big challenge at first sight. But it is not at all if you consider and prepare some important things and of course fulfil the requirements for the visa.

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Farm work must always be paid and proven by an official pay slip / income tax certificate at the embassy.

March 2019 a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand and the whole world was shocked, nobody would have thought such an act possible in this multicultural country.

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Especially in the summer months there are frequent bush and forest fires in New Zealand due to the prevailing climatic conditions.

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What should not be sent to New Zealand?

Unprocessed food, animals and animal products, plants and plant products may not be sent. Nothing may be packed in wooden or cardboard boxes that were formerly used as fruit, vegetable or meat/sausage transport boxes.

As many internships abroad are not remunerated and are connected with very high costs, I wanted to stay with friends in Australia/ Sydney in order to save accommodation and food. You should contact Deutsche Post directly because of the wrong advice and try to explain the facts, maybe the DP will give in. yes, alcohol can be sent as a gift, even if customs takes a very close look at it. According to New Zealand customs, the recipient must be able to prove that it is a gift, but given the small quantity involved, this is probably not required.

When hiking in the wilderness, there are considerable dangers and risks, and even tour operators and extreme sports providers do not always have equipment with high safety standards. In the tertiary bli