New Zealand, Road Trips

It’s Summer – Let’s go for a Roadie to Taranaki

January requires a more concentrated organisation if we are to celebrate our birthdays in style.

Life at No.22, New Zealand, Road Trips

Have you stayed in a Haunted Hotel?

Recently, we had the experience of staying in a place that was once a grand 19th-century hotel. It sits proudly on a hilltop overlooking the Waitomo Caves. It does sound very posh, doesn't it? As it so happens, the Queen's head once lay on a fluffed-up pillow on the first floor in late 1953. Of… Continue reading Have you stayed in a Haunted Hotel?

Family History, Life at No.22, New Zealand, Road Trips

Follow the Golden Weather to Takaka

Aside from the Bay of Plenty, there is another place where the sunshine hours are plentiful with brown sugar-coloured sand beaches.

Australia, Road Trips, Travel

Blissful days in Ball Bay

What a fun name, we thought.  It tickled our fancy and ignited that playfulness side of us.

Australia, Road Trips, Travel

Have you been to Yungaburra?

Queensland Roadtrip Pt4 After leaving The Daintree Rainforest area, we headed south and inland. It was a long scenic drive down to the Atherton Tablelands. After making camp in Atherton itself, we were in the centre of most places we wanted to explore. This is the first of many moments we enjoyed in this area.… Continue reading Have you been to Yungaburra?