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• Rafting the Rangitata

  After a great weekend with the Colonel and Yo here in Christchurch (barbie + booze, farmers' market, England vs NZ ODI, curry, hill walking and fush n chups on the beach), time to cool off with a day's whitewater rafting. Rangitata Rafts is a... Posted Feb 28 2008, 07:55 AM by le_sloth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: New Zealand, camping, food, roadtrip

• Waipara Valley Speed Shearing

  As far as we knew we were just going away for a weekend of wineries, camping and cheese in the Waipara Valley . Little did we realise that just over the road from the campsite was the Waipara Hotel Speed Shearing Contest. 18 seconds to shear a sheep?... Posted Dec 09 2007, 12:30 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: New Zealand, camping

• Kayaking The Abel Tasman National Park

  Last weekend was up there in the top 10 most amazing things I've done. I've waited 10 years to go to the Abel Tasman and it was well, well worth it . This is up in the north-west corner of NZ's South Island - we flew up to Nelson from Christchurch... Posted Feb 10 2007, 03:28 PM by le_sloth with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: New Zealand, camping, kayaking, top 10

• Easter Wales Trip: Bunkhouse near Coed Y Brenin

  Some more news on the trip from Bob: Had a browse at Torrent Campsite's website and it's true, they have now got a bunkhouse which is great news. Looks like it's £10 per night if you stay for 2 consecutive nights which isn't bad... Posted Feb 08 2007, 06:31 AM by le_sloth with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: MTB, Mountain Biking, camping, Wales

• Easter 07 Wales MTB trip

  Whales unite, Whales we will fight, Whales we will go on eating plankton. Whales we are nice, Whales full of spice But we don't like being wanked on. And so it goes on. Right then, with this Sloth now only weeks away from a return to the UK, nothing... Posted Jan 25 2007, 08:03 AM by le_sloth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MTB, Mountain Biking, camping

• Camping in the Waimakariri

  We went away camping last night just 40 minutes north-west of the city to an area known as Waimakariri. Try pronouncing that one then! After a very very long straight road that seemed to go on forever we arrived in the small town of Oxford , which for... Posted Dec 17 2006, 03:44 PM by le_sloth with | with no comments Filed under: New Zealand, camping