This time last year we were having the most amaaaaazing trip around New Zealand. I wrote a bunch of posts about it, but I never got around to writing about all the things we did on the road to Milford Sound. So, here is a full account of all the things we managed to squish into our time in the Fiordland. I have already written about some of these, so just click on the links if you’d like to read…
The hadaka matsuri (裸祭り) is over 500 years old, and it has to be one of the most hilarious and fun festivals I have ever visited in Japan. It is held on the coldest weekend in February (on the third Sunday of the month.) Around 10,000 men take part in this festival, with even more people involved as spectators. The event culminates at 10pm when priests drop some shingi sticks into the crowd which all the men try to grab…
Last weekend, my lovely friend Lisa invited me to join her for a quick visit to Pender Island. I LOVE visiting the Southern Gulf Islands. Well, I love visiting any island as getting on a ferry makes a day trip seem like an adventure. The ferry schedules meant that we only had around four hours to explore, but that was enough time for us to do a quick hike to the highest point on the island, Mount Norman. If you…
Happy New Year everyone!! I hope you all had fantastic Christmas breaks and giggles over new year. Marc and I decided to have a quiet new years eve so that we could get up early and have an epic start to 2019. It worked. We went to bed early, then woke up to make it up to the slopes for some Mount Seymour skiing. I wrote a post about Skiing for Newbies, as last year we had our very first…