Waipu Caves and Mangawhai
Last Tuesday when I was trying to figure out what I would get up to this weekend, I got an offer from Maddy of joining in on a trip up to Mangawhai on the co...
Nya Zeeland 2025
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - Bilbo Baggins
Welcome to this little blog where I share my travels and escapades during my stay and studies in New Zealand. After 2 weeks in Australia I’m now firmly settled into life in Auckland and my studies at the University of Auckland is from the 3rd of March.
Recent Posts
O-Camp
This weekend (14th - 16th of March) I went on O-Camp out to the Coromandel peninsula on the Auckland University Tramping Club (AUTC). This was the first and ...
Small blog update
Now that I have more or less caught up with the blog to present day I will be rearranging the dates of my older posts to match the day when it happened rathe...
Starting Uni
I maybe didn’t start my first week of classes at the University of Auckland (UoA) with the best circumstances as I got quite ill after the Piha trip. Don’t ...
Piha
Following the Marae event came O-week, the university orientation. This started out Monday morning (the 24th of February) with standing in a very long queue ...
Waipapa Noho Marae
One of the best experiences I’ve had so far was at the Waipapa Noho Marae event for exchange and study abroad students. It started on the 22nd of February wi...
Rangitoto
Rangitoto, the youngest of Auckland’s volcanoes at just a measly 600 years old, being formed at the same time as the Hundred Years’ War came to an end and Sw...
Getting settled in
The combination of me pushing my self to experience as much as possible before leaving Sydney, and getting sick, left me quite worn out. As such my first wee...
Hello New Zealand
On the day of my flight to Auckland (12th of February, which incidentally is my birthday) I got up at 4:30 in the morning to get to the airport when check-in...
Goodbye Sydney
My last few days in Sydney started to wind down slightly, though still busy long days. Sunday the 9th was spent exploring the city with Olle. We started out ...
Sail Grand Prix
I got back from my trip to the Blue Mountains late on the 7th of February and checked in to my new Hostel in Kings Cross which is a lot more central than Coo...
Grand Cliff Top Walk, part 2
We left off yesterday after I had arrived tired but happy to Leura. The morning of the seventh started at half past five in the morning when I started out to...
Grand Cliff Top Walk, part 1
The Blue Mountains, a mountain range about the size of Gotland an hour by train from central Sydney. Named after the bluish hue they take on when viewed from...
Sydney
My first days in Sydney was a bit of a mess. My body was really not too happy about the 41 hour journey there, and despite initially thinking I had gotten aw...
An arduous journey
I’m writing now from a wonderful little hostel in Sydney now a couple of days after my travel here. But you’ll hear more about that another time, today I’ll ...
Packing
Now it’s only a few days left before I leave, feels crazy. Am finally putting together my bags as well as washing the last things and it’s really starting to...
Intro Post
Welcome to this little blog about my travels and studies in New Zeeland. I’ll try to get something up here every week or two when things actually start. But ...