#304 Do - Take a dip in Lake Dunstan by McNulty Inlet. Early this morning I noticed locals taking a dip in perfectly calm water at this...

#301 Do - Drive over the Crown Range for beautiful tussock and lupin covered hills and the view over the Wakatipu basin at the summit. At...

#287 Do - Pétanque, a lunch platter and a glass of wine at Brennan Wines in the Gibbston Valley. Locally owned by the Brennan family,...

#284 Do - Get off the beaten track and drive to the Omarama Clay Cliffs. Impressive from the main road, but even more impressive to take...

#257 Do - This morning we woke to a winter wonderland! Yesterday we crossed the border to Austria to a little village called Golling an...

#256 Eat - on a day spent exploring King Ludwig of Bavaria's Neuschwanstein Castle, we stumbled across a tiny restaurant Küss die Hand,...

#255 Do - jog the city walls of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany's best-preserved walled medieval town. To avoid the crowds, we arrived...

#254 Eat - a lunch date at Juliusspital, the local hospital. We drove to Würzburg today, the start of the 'Romantic Road'. PJ was a...

#253 Do - A night in a German castle. Having landed into Frankfurt, we headed to Schlosshotel Kronberg. Originally named Schloss...

We’ve arrived! So I'm currently a wee way away from Otago and Southland. A road trip through Germany and Austria is the plan for the next...