Taipei with a toddler-Part 1

It’s been now almost a month since we returned from our spontaneous two weeks in Taiwan. By spontaneous I mean that the entire trip was planned only 6 days prior to departure. We actually took a lot of time planning a trip to Thailand, which we dropped last minute…

A Day in Smoggy Hong-Kong

We took a night flight from Auckland  to Hong Kong. Hong Kong was the last stop of our trip. The reason for this stopover was to split the trip from New Zealand to the Netherlands in two and make it easier to all of us. Besides, none of us has…

5 hours Auckland with a toddler

As we are slowly approaching the end of this magnificent travel year, I realized that I haven’t really written on my blog for a few weeks. Time goes by so fast, especially with a sweetheart toddler. I am planning to continue documenting our travels, but also to provide some…

Rotorua: Waimangu Volcanic Valley and the Hobbiton

Greymouth  was our last destination on the Southern Island of New Zealand. As far as we understood, we were quite lucky with the weather, as there had not been a proper summer yet this year. We happened to be there the only 10 days of full sunshine. In the Northern…