New Zealand – South Island 2017 - Our Year Out Travel, Holidays and Hotels by Mrs C - October 26, 2017April 24, 2018 South Island, New Zealand proved to be as idyllic as we'd expected. Apart from our fleeting but gorgeous visit to Cape Cod, the bit of our adventures I'd most been looking forward to was New Zealand. Unfortunately the journey there, all 13 hours of it, had to be borne first. We had the cheapest round-the-world flights we could find so weren't expecting an upgrade. Nonetheless,