187 Kilometres, turn left

In February 2019 I was lucky enough to travel to New Zealand, Singapore and Sydney. During my time there I wrote a journal about our 43-day adventure. This has now been published on Amazon; 187 Kilometres, turn left these are a very small selection of our photos taken on this epic bucket list trip. I hope you enjoy the photos and the book…

Day 1 – Monday 18th February – Setting off

  • The night before
  • Nothing fits!
  • Newark Northgate Station
  • All packed
  • Waiting, waiting, waiting
  • All aboard
  • First flight meal
  • welcome aboard
  • Riau
  • Flying over Riau area
  • Singapore Strait
  • High in the clouds
  • Singapore!
  • Sunset x
  • We’ve arrived!

Day 2 – Tuesday 19th February – Singapore

  • Big Bed!
  • Free snacks
  • Outram
  • Singapore Nights
  • Tanjong Pagar
  • Hustle and bustle
  • Chinatown
  • Colourful stalls
  • Comfort break
  • Sim San Festival

Day 3 –  Wednesday 20th February – Singapore

  • Beautiful Cappa
  • Chilling by the pool
  • Room with a view
  • Singapore Flyer
  • Bus Delights
  • Rocher
  • Hose me down! please…
  • City views
  • Arty shot
  • Clarke Quay

Day 4 or 5 – Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd February, have no idea –  Singapore to Auckland

  • Beautiful day awaits…
  • Air conditioned – yes!
  • Spot the Library 🙂
  • Bus Views
  • Clarke Quay
  • Working in the hotel
  • Buy one get one free
  • Beer Haze
  • Singapore Sling
  • New Zealand here we come

Day 5 –  Friday 22nd February – Auckland

  • Mentally moved into these apartments
  • View from apartments
  • Well equipped kitchen
  • Film vending machine!
  • supermarket Indian meal .. delish

Day 6 – Saturday 23rd February – Auckland

  • Coffee on the balcony
  • Weird and wonderful trees
  • Queen Street – main road
  • Sorting out the sim cards
  • 90’s music…
  • Cheers!
  • The tower we never visited
  • University of Auckland Park
  • Cruise Ships
  • Wandering the harbour

Day 7 – Sunday 24th February – Pukenui

  • Our trusted steed
  • Car mileage
  • Road trip butties
  • Coffee stop and unwanted advice!
  • Wellsford – Wayby
  • Waipu Views
  • Pukenui Lodge Motel
  • Local Wildlife
  • Perfect Pukenui Views
  • Sunset Dreams

Day 8 –  Monday 25th February – Pukenui 

  • Morning cappa
  • Road to Cape Reinga
  • Cape Reinga Lighthouse
  • Raging seas
  • Where to go next…
  • The Moon
  • Heavenly Henderson’s Beach
  • Travel writing with a view
  • Pukenui Lodge Motel
  • Sublime Evenings

Day 9 –  Tuesday 26th February – Pukenui to Whangarei

  • What a drive
  • Butty stop Waitangi River
  • Trying to read my book and failing
  • Paihia
  • Drive with a view
  • Whangarei Falls
  • The Dune Restaurant
  • Dinner with a view
  • Discovery Settlers Hotel
  • Walk in the Basin

Day 10 –  Wednesday 27th February – Day trip to Paihia

  • Did i say i was addicted to coffee…
  • Russell Island
  • Green Seas
  • Boat trip – it’s all about the dolphins
  • Racing
  • Showing off
  • more showing off
  • Stunning
  • Always a hole in the wall

Day 11 – Thursday 28th February – Whangarei to Rotorua

  • Drive past Auckland
  • Lunch stop
  • Drury – grapes anyone
  • Ngarua
  • Griddle Earth Cafe
  • Moody Tapapa
  • A not very smelly Rotorua
  • Lake Views
  • Lake Rotorua
  • Hot tub – bliss!

Day 12 – Friday 1st March –  Hobbiton!

  • Nearly there…
  • YES!
  • Hobbit Holes
  • Follow the signs
  • Bagend OMG
  • Green Dragon
  • Party Tree
  • Which way…
  • Ginger Ale
  • Hobbiton
  • Post… cute
  • The Mill
  • i have about 130 Hobbit home pictures

Day 13 –  Saturday 2nd March – Rotorua to Napier

  • Rotorua Geyser
  • Tahorakuri Forest
  • Bay View
  • Art Deco buildings in Napier
  • Napier South
  • Stunning buildings
  • Art Deco Shops
  • Hawke’s Bay
  • YUM!

Day 14 –  Sunday 3rd March – Napier to Wellington

  • Leaving Napier
  • Pakipaki
  • Dannevirke
  • Pakipaki
  • Sheep!
  • Shadowfax
  • Ballance
  • free gift…
  • Wellington central
  • YUM!

Day 15 –  Monday 4th March – A day in Wellington

  • View from the Museum window
  • Stunning Museum
  • Exhibition
  • Terracotta Warriors
  • Up we go
  • Wellington Views
  • From the top
  • Noisy Cicardas
  • Harbour views
  • Boat Art
  • Hobbit foot… not real!
  • Boss Hog motorbike
  • Scene of the seagull…
  • Well needed chunky chips

Day 16 – Tuesday 5th March – North to South

  • Pipitea – catching the early ferrry
  • Delayed.. but look at that sunset
  • Wellington to Picton
  • The singing children enjoying the views
  • In the South – Wairau Valley
  • We need water…
  • An Oasis
  • Room for the night
  • Reflection
  • Matakitaki River

Day 17 – Wednesday 6th  March –  Murchison to Karamea

  • Shower AKA sink
  • Morning walk around Murchison
  • Coffee -avoided the amazing looking food!
  • Inangahua Junction
  • En route to Karamea
  • History stop
  • Give us a lift!
  • Kilkenny Lookout
  • Lower Buller
  • Decisions, decisions
  • Granity beach
  • Misty Mountains
  • Karamea Beach
  • Moody skies
  • River near our accommodation

Day 18 – Thursday 7th March – Karamea to Greymouth

  • Karamea to Greymouth
  • Weka – very naughty
  • Fox River
  • Butty time
  • West Coast
  • Stunning Roads
  • National Park
  • Greymouth
  • Yes a stove!
  • Moody skies – love it!

Day 19 –  Friday 8th March – Greymouth to Franz Josef

  • View from Glacier View Motel
  • Walk to the glacier
  • Dirty wall of ice
  • South Island tomtit
  • How cute
  • Perfect meal

Day 20 –  Saturday 9th March – Franz Josef to Haast

  • Lake Matheson
  • Fox Glacier in the background
  • Colourful pigeons
  • Stunning roads
  • and we are off…
  • Landing on Mount Aspiring National Park
  • Waterfall in the mountains
  • Haast
  • Haast River
  • OMG
  • Beautiful
  • Giz a go!
  • View from our motel

Day 21 –  Sunday 10th March –  Haast to Wanaka

  • Diamond Lake
  • Fabulous Meal
  • Glendhu Bay
  • Time to relax
  • Upstairs!
  • Jackson Bay
  • The Neck
  • WOW!
  • Flying high
  • What a road

Day 22 –  Monday 11th March – Wanaka to Queenstown

  • Those views!
  • walking near Wanaka
  • Vocal Birds
  • Roaring Meg
  • Pit stop
  • Wanaka to Queenstown
  • Queenstown
  • Glendhu Bay area
  • Cheers…

Day 23 –  Tuesday 12th March –  Queenstown to Te Anau

  • Chilled morning in Te Anau
  • Wandering Queenstown
  • Stunning views
  • wow wow wow
  • my fav pic…
  • only way to travel
  • Bungie…
  • Home for four days
  • Lowther from Queenstown to Te Anau
  • Sunset in Te Anau with our cat friends

Day 24 –  Wednesday 13th March – Te Anau

  • Arty shots
  • out of focus arty shots
  • Woodland walks
  • Rainy day
  • beautiful views

Day 25 –  Thursday 14th March – Te Anau Glow worm Caves

  • Takahe
  • Thirsty work being a dinosaur
  • Wildlife retreat
  • Singing a song
  • Mountain backdrop
  • Hope we don’t need this
  • Trip to the glow worm caves
  • Te Anau lake
  • From glow worm island
  • Other side of the world

Day 26 –  Friday 15th March – Milford Sound

  • Morning mist
  • Te Anau Downs
  • Fiordlands National Park
  • The stretching man area…
  • Ready to sail
  • Te Wahipounamu
  • MV Sinbad boat
  • Adventures ahoy
  • Stunning waterfalls
  • Seals chilling out

Day 27-  Saturday 16th March –  Te Anau to Dunedin

  • Black Swans
  • Hillgrove
  • A break from the long break
  • Beach vibes
  • View from motel

Day 28 –  Sunday 17th March – Dunedin

  • St Patrick’s Day Celebrations
  • Cones everywhere
  • Cruising the streets of Dunedin
  • The location of the man on the tracks!
  • Dunedin station
  • All aboard
  • One of the exciting views off the train
  • View of train taken the next day… from the road!

Day 29 – Monday 18th March –  Dunedin to Christchurch

  • Long drive, hence lack of pictures… here’s the Moeraki boulders minus tourists!

Day 30 –  Tuesday 19th March – Christchurch

  • Showing off
  • Kingfisher – stunning
  • Drive around the Peninsula
  • Amazing views
  • Wildlife aplenty
  • more stunning views
  • Arty shots
  • Views keep on coming
  • Ohinetahi Allandale

Day 31 –  Wednesday 20th March – Christchurch

  • Our favourite pig family
  • Feeding the eels
  • Duvauchelle
  • Little River
  • Little River
  • Road to Akaroa
  • Akaroa
  • Streets of Akaroa
  • Looking for whales
  • when the picture doesn’t do the sunset justice…

Day 32 – Thursday 21st March – Last full day in NZ

  • Akaroa
  • Driving around Banks Peninsula
  • loads of chips!
  • Lake Views
  • Lyttelton
  • Lyttelton
  • Lyttelton
  • Lyttelton
  • Massive Crunchie!
  • La Shabby Shack

Day 33 –  Friday 22nd March – Leaving New Zealand

  • Sumner
  • Beach views
  • Scarborough Park
  • Beach vibes
  • Time to chill
  • Last drink before leaving NZ
  • Mileage
  • Oh no our car i very lonely (sad face)

Day 33 – Friday 22nd March – Sydney

Day 34 – Saturday 23rd March –  Darling Harbour and hop on/hop of

  • Chilling in our new cafe in Redfern
  • Darling Harbour
  • Darling Harbour
  • Darling Harbour
  • City Views
  • Bus adventures
  • The Bridge!
  • Sydney Opera House
  • It’s big!
  • Icon

Day 35 – Sunday 24th March –  Bus Trip day with the Hop on/Hop off

  • Photo bombing every shot!
  • Same again…
  • Spoiling the view
  • Cruising the coves
  • City views
  • Boats ad bridges
  • Bin ends!
  • Arty shot
  • Bondi beach

    Day 36 –  Monday 25th March –  Hop on/Hop off

    • Hop on/Hop off
    • Views from the Skytower
    • Vertigo!
    • Top of the tower
    • water, water everywhere
    • To the Bridge!
    • Bridge Views
    • Iconic Bridge?
    • Pub waiting for Giant Bats

    Day 37 – Tuesday 26th March – Blue Mountains

    • Double Decker Bus!
    • Blue Mountains
    • What a view!
    • Three Sisters
    • Stunning
    • Lunchtime pal
    • Calm and peaceful
    • To the waterfall
    • Oasis
    • Scream if you want

    Day 38 –  Wednesday 27th March –  Manly and massive spiders!

    • Setting sail to Manly
    • Manly beach
    • Headland walk
    • Sea views
    • If you go down to the headland walk today…
    • Massive spiders
    • more massive spiders
    • Other worldly on the walk
    • Getting over the spider shock
    • Happy hour at Manly

    Day 39 –  Thursday 28th March – Last day in Sydney

    • View from Rose Bay
    • Last boat trip
    • City skyline
    • Botanical Gardens
    • Binends
    • Posing
    • more massive spiders
    • leaf insect
    • Last drink in Sydney
    • Botanical Views

    Day 40 –  Friday 29th March – I went and said it!

    No pictures today as busy travelling!

    Day 40 – Friday 29th March –  Sydney to Singapore

    • Bright lights of the city
    • Random food in the petrol station
    • Singapore Nights
    • View from hotel

    Day 41 –  Saturday 30th March – Singapore

    • Busy city life
    • Street vibes
    • Everyday life
    • Fantastic Mexican Meal
    • View from hotel roof
    • Sunset dreams

    Day 42 – Sunday 31st March –  Going home

    No pictures today due to travelling

    Day 43 –  Monday 1st April – The End

    • Heathrow Airport – on UK soil. Time to travel home… THE END