Oamaru, home of … steampunk?
Ask pretty much any New Zealander what they know about Oamaru and the answer will probably be … not much....
Ask pretty much any New Zealander what they know about Oamaru and the answer will probably be … not much....
I have absolutely no idea why I didn’t get there sooner. It wasn’t like I hadn’t had the opportunity. Countless...
I wasn’t looking forward to returning to Christchurch. This was the city that I knew best in New Zealand. It’s...
Now things were starting to look very familiar. Over the previous month we had slowly headed down from the top...
We’d arrived in Picton the day before, making the three hour ferry crossing across Cook Strait on the kind of...
It was hard to believe that we were almost halfway through our time in New Zealand. We’d made it right...
Finally the day had come. We were preparing to walk the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, a 20-odd kilometre trek in the...
Rotorua stinks. I mean, literally, it really stinks. The small city is built on a geothermal hotspot that brings bubbling...
I'm Dave Dean. In 2011 I quit my job, sold everything I owned, and set off to live, work and wander round the world, armed with a backpack, a good pair of boots, and no return ticket.
THIS IS MY STORY.