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A few days ago Jochen, Miri and Paula arrived in Blackheath. Hey had flewn into Sydney on April 24th and spend a couple days in Sydney in search for a van as well. After final success they are proud owners of a Kia Pregio, 2004, 270000km with was a little cheaper then ours but in …

The next morning we took another bus to Sydney Central Station where we had an appointment for buying a van. At around 12am we were owners of a Mazda E2000, the same car we already owned in New Zealand, only 10 years younger and 100.000km less driven. In general the car was well maintained and …

Selling a car at the end of the backpackers season in New Zealand is no fun! We were quiet dissapointed by the Auckland Backpackers Carmarket. We expected a place, just like the Backpackers Car Market in Christchurch: A place were you can park for a couple of days and try to sell your vehicel to …

After a long drive we arrived at Golden Bay, the northern end of New Zealands South Island. Especially Katinka was tired, since she was still recovering from beeing sick, so we just got a quick shower at the climbers campground called Hangdog, cooked some dinner and went straight to bed. The next morning we glanced …

The last few days in Castle Hill were quite hot. The sun was burning without a single cloud. Climbing around midday was impossible. We had to wait an other few days because we wanted to meet up with my brother Jochen, his wife Miriam and their daughter Paula. Paula is Finjas twin-cousin, since she’s born …

Since our last restday, we had returned to Castle Hill to do what more of the sport, our trip was dedicated to: climbing, or more specific bouldering. Castle Hill is a world class climbing destination with beautiful limestone formations. There’s only a few holds, and a lot of slippery feet. Even a really strong climber …

On our way to the westcoast we stopped for a day in Wanaka. It’s a small, but beautiful city just next to a beautiful lake. As you would guess we did not stop for no reason. We knew there are some rocks around the city to climb and thats what we did! We enjoyed some …

Luckily the next garage was just 200m from where our car broke down. We could enjoy free wifi inside of our van and we had running water and a rubbish bin just next to our van. The mechanic confirmed our guess of a leaking pipe beeing the problemmaker and he confirmed our hope for a …

With our new van, we went straight to the next supermarket to buy groceries and make our way towards Castle Hill. Castle Hill is a world class climbing area, 90km west of Christchurch which Axel had visited on his last trip five years ago. Katinka in Quantum Field, the main area in Castle Hill We …