What Wikipedia says about the Rudyard Kipling proclaimed 8th Wonder of the World: With a mean annual rainfall of 6,813 mm on 182 days a year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. So we were mentally prepared for a fairly wet kayaking experience which we had to book many weeks in advance. And the evening…
What do people expect from NZ? What did I expect? Loneliness, a beautiful, natural and untouched setting? What did I get? Well kinda exactly that, but I was still truly fascinated by it. And then there’s so much more, too, like the kindness of the locals, the overpriced everything, the false promises of extreme sport experiences and all their young followers, the spare wildlife, etc etc. The Routeburn Track sums up the best of the…
In between the two trips to South Africa and New Zealand, I had 5 days in France. Dorit and I decided to spend two of these days for some quality snowboarding plus a little spa and of course just the two of us. It took us to the freerider’s gem “La Grave”, a resort I had only visited once (4 years ago with Hugues) and that was still unknown to Dorit. It’s a place to…
Wow, that’s been 4 weeks in Cape Town already and it didn’t feel like that at all. 4 weeks waiting waiting for good conditions, choosing the right spot, struggling with the equipment and my technical level, learning lots and having a real blast whenever things aligned correctly. In the end, the lack of wind on so many days, as unusual as it’s supposed to be in windy Cape Town, has dropped my number of days…