Wednesday, April 21, 2010

NZ by the numbers

We are now in Australia, where the sun is shining and summer is still holding on. Before my first Oz blog, here's a quick recap of NZ by some of the numbers for the anoracks out there tracking us on Google Earth and probably compiling spreadsheets.

Time in NZ: 71 days
Kilometres driven: 9135
Litres of petrol/gas burned: 635.21
Cost of petrol/gas: NZ $1142.76
Cost of car hire: NZ $2000
Total car cost [including NZ $16.50 in oil]: NZ $3159.26
Cost per kilometre: NZ $0.35
Nights in a tent: 44
Nights in mountain huts: 3
Nights on a sailboat: 5
Nights at friends': 19
Cost of accomodation: $1305 [45 paid nights and 26 free nights]
Friends from London days visited: 11
Hitchhikers picked up: 2
Hitchhikers passed in guilt: 4
Animals hit: 1 seagull [poor bastard]
Hawks almost hit: 3
Terriers almost hit: 1
Dead possums on the road: too many to count
Days spent tramping/hiking: 13
Mountains summitted: 4 [plus a couple wee ones]
Breweries / brew pubs visited for tastings: 8
Wineries visited: 5
Seal colonies visited: 2
Fish caught: 1
Fish and chips eaten: 14 [I'm guessing here, it could be more]
People who asked if were we were going to stay in NZ: 17

Cheers to all you Kiwis for one hell of a trip!

2 comments:

  1. What, you've left?! I could have sworn you were gonna stay... Take it easy guys. Good times...and Relic seems to be ever-so-slowly inching its spine out from the bookshelf towards me...

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  2. Careful there with Relic. It did slaughter and entire NYPD SWAT Team

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