News – April 2008 (Dunedin/New Zealand, April 25, 2008)
- Website statistics: In March we were able to welcome on our website 50'201 visitors who did 1'538'676 hits.
- (February = 43'824 visitors – 1'325'837 hits)
- The visitors are coming from about 100 to 118 different countries!
- Record day since 12/17/1998 - the birthday of our website: 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- It's now already 10 weeks since we are discovering the South Island of New Zealand, the 159th country on our
- worldtour. In our last News we wrote that we believed to have seen a lot while having driven 2'200 miles. However,
- because the weather situation continued to be stable and good, we added another 1'200 miles criss-crossing the island.
- But this extra-time was also a little bit influenced by a friend we got to know while being in Dunedin, as he invited us to
- do house-sitting on his farm there during his holidays in Australia – a tempting and welcomed change, because the
- temperatures are falling now with stormy winds to freezing point. During the overhaul of our LandCruiser back in
- Miri/Sarawak on the island of Borneo, the car's heating "disappeared" mysteriously. Missing now this conveniance makes
- a warmed-up house much more appreciated.
- But we still like it very much on this climatologically
- published now on the internet three chronologically built-up websites with more than 200 picutres: New Zealand part 1,
- part 2 and part 3. Consequently, the visit of the New Zealand North Island will happen only in May. As a precaution we
- extended already here in Dunedin our immigration permit without any problems up to six months, although currently we
- don't expect to remain such a long time in the country. On the one hand, we are compelled to stretch the huge freight-
- and flight-expenses on a rather long sojourn, on the other hand the relatively high
living costs are somewhat
- What financially more favorable conditions Indonesia had to offer at that time! But we appreciate very
- much the big security here too!
- Once we shall leave Dunedin at the end of the month, we shall drive the 435 miles pretty straight to the ferry in Picton –
- we guess three days is enough. The sea journey takes about three hours over to the capital of Wellington on the North
- Island. And then we hope to be able to deliver new pictures and informations from a completely different part of New
- Zealand.
New Reports/Pictures
- SOUTHEAST ASIA: mouse over picture shows comments
- click a picture to see details
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 4th part | South to North Island – May- 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 3rd part | South Island – April 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 2nd part | South Island – March 2008 |
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| + our New Zealand Trip, 1st part | South Island – Febr.-March 2008 |
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| + our Hong Kong Trip | Hong Kong – Dec. 2007+Jan. 2008 |
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| + our Taiwan Trip, 3rd part | Taipei-Taitung-Kaohsiung – Nov. 2007 |
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| + our Taiwan Trip, 1st part | Kaohsiung-Kenting-Taitung – Oct. 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 6th part | Kalimantan – July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, within the 5th part | Tana Toraja (Toraja-Land) – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 5th part | Sulawesi – June+July 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 4th part | Sumba, West Timor – May+June 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 3rd part | Lombok, Sumabawa, Flores – April 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 2nd part | Bali – Jan.-March 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 1st part | Sumatra, Java – Dec. 2006 |
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| + our Borneo Trip | Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Kalimantan – Sept.-Nov. 2006 |
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| + our LandCruiser on a "Rejuvenation Cure" | in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on Borneo Engine/Body: June-Aug. 2006/Transmission: Sept. 2007 |
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| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
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| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
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| + Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997) |
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