In January 1995, I had the opportunity to have a holiday in New Zealand.
I went there together with my brother. With the tickets we bought we could
make two stops on our flights. So we decided to make one
stop in California and one in Australia.
On a cold and icy Sunday, with still snow left after some cold
weather, we took the train to Schiphol (Amsterdam International Airport).
On the picture on the left you can see us with our
bagpacks, ready for a six week leave.
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On Monday we looked around in
San Francisco. A very nice city, not so big as I expected. Unfortunately
the weather was bad, a gale passed the bay area the day we arrived,
and there was some damage. In the evening we started to drive to the
south along the coast. It then started to rain and when we watched
TV in our motel we saw that there were floodings and the road we drove
a few hours ago, was now closed. And they say, it never rains
in California....
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From Amsterdam we flew with KLM to San Francisco, where we collected
our rental car and found ourself a motel.
On the photo on the right you see
Alcatras in a dark cloud covered San Francisco bay.
The next days we drove to Los Angeles,
where we visited some friends. We made some two trips to San Diego
(one in the pouring rain), and we visited Las Vegas (The pictures
on the left and right). Las Vegas is a nice town
to visit, and stay for a evening, but that was long enough for us.
After one and a half week California, we had to leave for New Zealand.
As our flight would leave at eight o'clock in the evening,
we had time to visit Disneyland.
This time the weather was fine and as it was
a Wednesday in January, Disneyland was not crowed and we had a
great day. At four o'clock we started to drive to LAX
(Los Angles International Airport) where we delivered our
rental car and boarded the non-stop flight to Auckland, New Zealand.
We took a walk to the domestic terminal (very nice after spending
13 hours in an aircraft), and at 10 o'clock we left for Christchurch
on the South Island.