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  • New Zealand – Christchurch to Mount Cook

    This morning, after getting up, shopping for bagage locks and power adapters and breakfast, we got in our rental Nissan Wingroad (what the hell kind of model is that? Never heard of…. small car, no luxuries, but cheap and large enough to hold our enormous bags) and drove to Mount Cook. With 3700-something metres Mount […]

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  • Millionaires on Bali

    Change of setting, change of pace! Although Bali is a tropical island as well, it has a completely different atmosphere than the Micronesian islands. The heat is much more humid and therefore oppressive, the streets are noisy and crowded with people, cars and mopeds, there are little shops everywhere and you are constantly being asked […]

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  • Yap – Cultural Tour

    Yap is a very friendly, very interesting place and if you’re a diver, it’s a must see destination. Apologies for the brief English summary, the island pace is finally catching on and I am too lazy to write this entire story twice…  

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  • Palau – Babeldaob

    Because you’re not supposed to dive the day before you fly, and we’re flying to Yap late tonight, we thought we would keep our feet dry today and booked a guided ‘land tour’ of Palau, even though it seemed very expensive. What parts we had seen from the island were so beautiful that we figured […]

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