the Katie Wilson life

Hi, I’m Katie and I’m currently travelling around New Zealand with my boyfriend, in a camper van we bought on Facebook marketplace. If you’re back again this week to hear about how else I could possibly bugger up what should be a very simple task, completing a beautifully curated and emotionally tainted bucket list, you are in for another treat.  Last week I left you in Kaikoura, if I painted the picture perfectly, you were imagining me having a whale related breakdown in the back of a camper van. I did eventually manage to pull myself together enough to pack everything up and get on the road. For our next adventure and bucket list activity, we headed in land to Hanmer Springs.  Hanmer Springs is a small ski resort town, famous for it’s thermal pools . The thermal pools are really quite self explanatory; Hot pools, spa vibes. When you live in a camper van you’ll romanticise even the most basic of luxuries i.e. hot water. This felt like a cosy activity and I was gearing up for ...

Hi, I’m Katie and I’m currently travelling around New Zealand with my boyfriend, in a camper van we bought on Facebook marketplace.   Before I left the UK, actually before I’d so much as looked at the price of flights, my best friends Lydia and Eleanor, carefully curated a bucket list of activities for me to complete whilst I was away, as a 25th birthday present. Though they would have you think that this was a sign of their unwavering support in my future adventures and excitement to come and visit me when I was there… I think they were fed up of me badgering on about wanting to leave the country and boring them senseless, without having shown any sign of actually booking the trip. The bucket list is majorly important for a few reasons:  Not really a big reason but worth mentioning, had I not come to Nz after my friends went to such a great effort to make me a bucket list, I’d have looked like an ungrateful prat.  It was the push I needed to actually see these plans thro...