ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find
wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing

is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......


Monday, 17 February 2014

More Dunedin landmarks

3.  Baldwin Street, apparently the world's steepest. I'm afraid we couldn't resist climbing it.
4. The railway station, its walls covered with tiles made specially by Royal Doulton.















5. Signal Hill Lookout. We decided it would be nice to walk from the Botanical Gardens near the centre of the city to the top of this hill from where we would have a great view over both Dunedin and Otago Harbour. For some reason even the fact the woman in the Information Office said that she'd never walked up to the top but always gone by car, didn't make us reconsider.
An hour later, still toiling up hill through the suburbs, and with the green peak of the hill seemingly no closer, the only thing that kept us going was the refusal to be beaten and the knowledge that we had lunch in our back packs to enjoy once we'd made it.

And it was a tremendous view.


6. Well, there would be more if we hadn't spent so long on Signal Hill!

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