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All’s Well That Ends In Wellington
From Motueka to Nelson After completing the Abel Tasman Coast Track, we were eager to repeat the Great Walk tradition we had started in our post-Rakiura fish & chips ecstasy. So we headed back into Motueka where we had AirBnBed prior to starting the track and found a restaurant to replenish our salt and grease supply. Unfortunately, when we gushed about the fish & chips on Stewart Island being the most delicious ones in all of New Zealand, we weren’t kidding; a hot meal was still nice, but they were nothing next to the ones we had had farther south. To be honest, however, maybe we just weren’t as wet…
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Our First HelpX Experience
We decided on doing the HelpX program (short for “Help Exchange”) when arriving to New Zealand because we thought it would be a good way to meet some real-life Kiwis (and getting food and accommodation at no cost was a huge bonus, too). If you haven’t heard of HelpX, it’s a program similar to WWOOF and Workaway that connects hosts to “helpers” in exchange for lodging (we will go into more detail on this in a separate post). We ended up choosing Nat’s place as our first location because she had lots of animals, great reviews, and was one of the only HelpX hosts that was generous enough to let…
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Our First Post – Nov 2019 Update