New Zealand Travel Book
216 pages, Only in German

"Neuseeland pur" ("New Zealand up close") - travel book
Nine months of jobbing, travelling and biking

• "I came to love the people of New Zealand" - This is surely the best compliment anyone can make to a country and its people. Author Bernd Häusler was able to get to know the Kiwis very well indeed because he worked there to finance his nine-month stay.
• A banker by trade, he applied for jobs as a lorry driver, cemetery gardener and service station attendant. He worked for a time as a farmhand, looking after cows, and finally becomes a jack-of-all-trades at a vineyard. There he found one of the most beautiful places to work in the world, with a view overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
• He quickly became integrated into New Zealand society, made friends and acquaintances, joined the BMW club and, as a result, got to know the Kiwi way of life far more intimately than any normal holidaymaker. Bernd Häusler's various jobs not only financed his stay in New Zealand, but also left him enough time to travel the whole country in the saddle of his BMW. Ninety Mile Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Rotorua with its geyser fields, Southern Alps, Mitre Peak, Milford Sound - no sight, no winding road, and no gravel track was left unexplored.
• Whether in the places he worked or on the road, Bernd Häusler was overwhelmed by the friendliness and helpfulness of the New Zealanders, and by their positive attitude to life. Contact with people is the most important thing in life, - that's the key conclusion the author draws from his time in New Zealand. A time that was to have a major influence on the rest of his life.

Format: paperback
Number of pages: 248 pp., 33 colour photos