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Off the beaten track: New Zealand's South Island

Monday, April 26, 2010 by Dave Dean

Marlborough Sounds

Welcome to the first in an irregular series featuring people, places and experiences that are off the beaten backpacker and tourist trails.

Today’s post showcases a few of these hidden gems from my old back yard, the South Island of New Zealand. I hope you get the chance to enjoy them – but don’t tell the locals I sent you, they might well prefer to keep these places to themselves!

Brunswick St, Fitzroy

Loving my neighbourhood

Here's my highly subjective tour of Fitzroy that takes in a few of the places that I return to time and again.

Goodbye stuff, hello world

Downsizing your life and giving yourself the freedom to travel long term.

Group tours

Safety in numbers

Some people love them, some people loathe them and everyone seems to have an opinion on them. Are organised tours right for you?
>Laptop

The changing face of backpacking

It struck me recently just how much technology has changed the way that we travel in the last decade.

Buying your first backpack

Buying your first backpack

Six things that I wish I'd known when setting out to buy my first backpack.

Tasmania

Roadtrip Tasmania

Tasmania. Rainforests, beaches, mountains, history and mile after mile of winding tarmac - the perfect road trip destination.

Eiffel Tower

5 awesome things to do in Paris

My five awesome things to do in Paris, that may involve getting drunk, being solicited and breaking traffic laws. Amongst other things.

The one place

The one place

We always say that we'll come back, yet it often doesn't happen. Where is the one place that you'd return to above any other?

Classroom

What travel has taught me

Here’s a few of the lessons I’ve learned with a pack on my back.
 
 
 
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