Gabrielle Kotanidis

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Te Araroa

Streams, Ferries, Beaches and a Tsunami Freak-out

We stayed a night at a caravan park in Paihia. It was $86 for one night and all we got was a tiny patch of grass and bad facilities! But…

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28 November 2019
Australia

A Trip to Grant’s Picnic Ground to Feed the Birds

Grant’s Picnic Ground is a lovely place to spend the day. We went for a day trip from Nanna’s house to break up the boredom of suburbia. The sulphur-crested cockatoos…

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1 July 2019
Europe

Toulouse to Berlin

We left the apartment early on the 17th of march and drove to Toulouse. We dropped Shaz (the hire car we’d had for the past six months) off near the…

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2 April 2019
Uncategorized

50 Things that Make Me Happy Tag

I know this isn’t a travel post but we’ve done so much in the last week that I don’t even know where to start. So, I chose the lazy approach…

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30 March 2019
Te Araroa

The Hardest Day of my Life – The Raetea Forest

The Raetea forest… I’m sorry but this post isn’t about the wonderfulness of hiking. If you want to just think tramping is always wonderful and happy and skipping through grassy…

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21 November 2019
  • Ingham floods
    Australia

    Ingham Floods

    / 6 January 2021

    Ingham’s flooding again! Problems of building a town on a tropical floodplain. Dad excitedly shook me awake this morning and told me to look out of my window. This is what I saw:…

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  • Te Araroa - Cape Reinga to Auckland
    Te Araroa

    Te Araroa – Cape Reinga to Auckland

    / 17 December 2020

    It’s been a year since we had to leave the Te Araroa trail. I’ve finally turned all of our video footage into a travel video. Yeah, I guess you can tell that we…

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  • Europe

    Hiking the Ladder of Kotor in Montenegro

    / 23 April 2020

    When we were in Montenegro and mum said we were going to hike the Ladder of Kotor I admit that I wasn’t exactly thrilled. It was January and bitterly cold, especially for a…

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  • Life,  Uncategorized

    An Interview with the Crazy Clones (my sisters)

    / 28 March 2020

    In this post I’m going to introduce you to my sisters. Maybe everyone has sisters like these two, but I somehow doubt it. My dad has thrown up his hands in defeat when…

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  • Australia,  Life

    A Quick Life Update

    / 21 March 2020

    I guess I haven’t been writing much lately so I’ll try and catch you up in this post. So, here’s what we’ve been up to this past three months. So, What Have we…

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  • German, how to teach yourself for free
    Europe,  Uncategorized

    German: How I’m Teaching Myself for Free

    / 25 February 2020

    I’ve been teaching myself German for almost two years now. I recently did an online placement test and it put me at A2, which according to Wikipedia means: Can understand sentences and frequently…

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  • How to sew hiking gaiters, DIY tutorial, Te Araroa, Thru Hiking, Gabrielle George
    Te Araroa

    Hiking Gaiters: How to Sew the Best DIY Gaiters

    / 23 January 2020

    Gaiters are the best thing ever for a hiker or trail runner. Cheap, DIY, hiking gaiters are even better! They keep rocks and dirt out of your shoes preventing you from having to…

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  • Te Araroa

    Leaving the Trail

    / 31 December 2019

    We made it 685 kilometres and we just had to pull the pin. My second youngest brother, Rex has a syndrome. Because of this, everything is much harder for him – balancing, physical…

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  • Te Araroa

    Hiking Recipe to make Peanut Butter More Edible- Sesame Snaps

    / 20 December 2019

    Is it just me or do you all include a lot of peanut butter in your hiking rations? It’s the perfect hiking food. It’s cheap, it’s high in calories and has heaps of…

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  • Hiking through Auckland on the Te Araroa - Gabrielle George
    Te Araroa

    Underground Bunkers, Peaches and Skyscrapers – Hiking through Auckland

    / 14 December 2019

    Coming into Auckland the trail kept sending us on and off the beach, it couldn’t make up its mind. We found some caves along the beach. They didn’t go into the cliff very…

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Gabrielle George

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Hey there! I’m a 16-year-old tramper, blogger, busker and traveller. My family’s pretty stupid and so am I so we have a lot of crazy adventures!

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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay respect to elders – past, present and emerging.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

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