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German: How I’m Teaching Myself for Free
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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Hiking Gaiters: How to Sew the Best DIY Gaiters
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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Leaving the Trail
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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Hiking Recipe to make Peanut Butter More Edible- Sesame Snaps
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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Underground Bunkers, Peaches and Skyscrapers – Hiking through Auckland
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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More Beach, Rain and Some Local History
We saw this huge hive, it’s impressive! It didn’t feel like we were meant to be walking through here. And back on the beach again . we were forced up the beach to…
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Two River Crossings (One Failed) a Boat Ride and a Swim
We had to do two tide-reliant river crossings on the one day. Unfortunately, low tide wasn’t until quite late and we couldn’t leave camp until 2 pm, a ridiculously late start for us.…
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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 I did get…
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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 meadows you should…
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Te Araroa – the First 100 km of Tramping
As we started to hike the Te Araroa we were all pretty nervous. It was really foggy when we left the lighthouse at Cape Reinga and there wasn’t much in the way of…
