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<blockquote data-quote="my2cents" data-source="post: 245096" data-attributes="member: 1287"><p><strong>Re: Around the world with Traveller</strong></p><p></p><p>If all goes according to plan, I'm hoping to make it to New Zealand in 2009, so whatever you could post on your trip there Traveler would be greatly appreciated. I'm more of a backpacker type though, although after reading thru all the posts on cruises, I may reconsider that. At any rate, I hope to spend 5-6 weeks touring North and South Islands. My itineraries are usually a mixture of joining tour groups, doing stuff on my own with a car rental and visiting relatives if there are any in the area I'm visiting.</p><p></p><p>I have a stack of guidebooks on New Zealand and working out the itinerary for this trip will take much planning. There are actually too many places in NZ I want to visit, so I believe I will eventually have to make more than one trip there. I'm thinking about buying an inflatable kayak I can bring with me and use while there. I will probably join tours which will include tramping, kayaking and camping, although I'm sure I'll see an area on my own where I'll just want to launch the kayak and go.</p><p></p><p>Early next year, I'm headed back to Australia for five weeks. I have relatives there and I'm spending tens days of it touring Tasmania with one of my Aussie cousins, which is something both of us are looking forward to. My other stops on this tour will be Kangaroo Island, the Barossa wine valley, while using Adelaide as the tour base. I'm also booked on a trip on the Great Ocean Road along the South Australia/Victoria coastline. I also have stops planned for Melbourne and Sydney. My tour finishes with a visit to Fraser Island and some time spent with relatives in the Brisbane area.</p><p></p><p>I was in Australia this time last year and I wrote a recap of that trip on this thread a awhile back:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/vacation-spots.70656/" target="_blank">http://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/vacation-spots.70656/</a></p><p></p><p>In regards to currency, I'm still stuck on using travellers cheques. I usually buy them in the currency to the country I will be visiting and cash them at local banks. I was able to cash my Aussie Dollar cheques at WestPac Bank branches in Australia without any fees. I still have plenty of cheques left from my last trip and I'm using them for this upcoming trip. This has proved to be a windfall for me because of the current weakness in the U.S. Dollar. I did however, purchase a modest sum of cash from Travelex so I could hit the ground running without worrying about a trip to the bank. I'm tempted to use my ATM card, although I admit to being concerned about some rogue ATM machine eating my ATM card at some odd hour that the bank isn't open.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="my2cents, post: 245096, member: 1287"] [B]Re: Around the world with Traveller[/B] If all goes according to plan, I'm hoping to make it to New Zealand in 2009, so whatever you could post on your trip there Traveler would be greatly appreciated. I'm more of a backpacker type though, although after reading thru all the posts on cruises, I may reconsider that. At any rate, I hope to spend 5-6 weeks touring North and South Islands. My itineraries are usually a mixture of joining tour groups, doing stuff on my own with a car rental and visiting relatives if there are any in the area I'm visiting. I have a stack of guidebooks on New Zealand and working out the itinerary for this trip will take much planning. There are actually too many places in NZ I want to visit, so I believe I will eventually have to make more than one trip there. I'm thinking about buying an inflatable kayak I can bring with me and use while there. I will probably join tours which will include tramping, kayaking and camping, although I'm sure I'll see an area on my own where I'll just want to launch the kayak and go. Early next year, I'm headed back to Australia for five weeks. I have relatives there and I'm spending tens days of it touring Tasmania with one of my Aussie cousins, which is something both of us are looking forward to. My other stops on this tour will be Kangaroo Island, the Barossa wine valley, while using Adelaide as the tour base. I'm also booked on a trip on the Great Ocean Road along the South Australia/Victoria coastline. I also have stops planned for Melbourne and Sydney. My tour finishes with a visit to Fraser Island and some time spent with relatives in the Brisbane area. I was in Australia this time last year and I wrote a recap of that trip on this thread a awhile back: [url]http://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/vacation-spots.70656/[/url] In regards to currency, I'm still stuck on using travellers cheques. I usually buy them in the currency to the country I will be visiting and cash them at local banks. I was able to cash my Aussie Dollar cheques at WestPac Bank branches in Australia without any fees. I still have plenty of cheques left from my last trip and I'm using them for this upcoming trip. This has proved to be a windfall for me because of the current weakness in the U.S. Dollar. I did however, purchase a modest sum of cash from Travelex so I could hit the ground running without worrying about a trip to the bank. I'm tempted to use my ATM card, although I admit to being concerned about some rogue ATM machine eating my ATM card at some odd hour that the bank isn't open. [/QUOTE]
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