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we arrived in wellington late at night.....wed been up for nearly 24 hours wot with the stupid delays in sydney arghhhh!lol. neil n tanya had got a slightly eaarlier flight n waited for us-how kind ! lol. so we headed top our hostel-a big tall building painted as a zebra hahaha was soooo funny!thats where neil n tanya had been living! the next day we went to check out 'daisy' she ws lush :o) but when we tried to start her up-trouble stared!!!we were gonna be leaving straight away but she ended up needing a new fan belt and a new aulternator!so we didnt get to leave till the next night!was cool though-just lazed rounsd for 2 days(wots new) so we set off n gav drove till 1 in the morning to reach taupo where we camped up next to the lake!early morning the next day where we drove all the way to Auckland-with me trying to navigate and gav getting fustrated cos i cant read a map hahaha. Auckland was beautiful-we didnt stay long ,just a few hours...we went up the sky tower which was cool.......so high though!!!theyve got glass floors in places and the middle of the lift floor is glass too-sooo scary!!!i couldnt even look down it lol. gav was brave and put his one foot onto the glass hahahaha.it says its as strong as concrete....i didnt wanna test it lol. so after a much needed burger king to settle our stomachs we jumped back in the van and headed north...we ended up in a place called whangeri when we camped up for the night in a camp site!the next morning we had to take daisy to a garage cos she was making really bad noises...luckily nothting major n the guy was mega nice n didnt even charge us!!so then we were straight back in daisy n heading to Cape Reinga.....is as far north as you can go n you can see when the 2 oceans meet-after a long drive we got there!the sea wasnt very rough so it was herd to see where they were meeting but was still nice to see!theers a lighthouse there with signs saying how far places are including london!!!cool. so after getting some pics we cooked some sausage sandwiched lol. then headed back down!!we made it back to whangeri where we camoed up again for the night then in the emorning we headed to a place called Rotora!a place where theres loads od geysers cos theers loads of thermal activity there!!we went n saw the free geysers that nigh -the whole town abasolutelly sticks of eggs!!cos of the sulphur!!lol, was a cool sight cos just in peoples gardens there holes in the ground with steam coming out of it lol.anyway we stayed there that night n the next day we went to a mauri village where theyve got massive geysers.......was amazing to see them!!!we lso got to see a mauri concert when we saw people perform the haka!!!gav was chuffed to have seen it!!! that night we amazingly made it back to wellington....a mamoth few days wed had!we were mega knackered but as soon as we arrived neil n tanya took us to a welsh bar they had found...the only one in the southern hemisphier!!!was cool :o) we were gonna travel the next day down to the south island n travel that but when we actually sat down n thought bout it we decided thta our money would b stretched way too far if we did n we were just pleased to have been to the north!so we spent the next week just seeing wellingon n chilling out n relaxing!!!gav n tanya got hooked on the series prison break n watched over 20 hours of it in like 2 days haha. we got fed well cos tanyas an amazin cook-unlike us n she was always offering to make us dinner :o)Thanks tan!!!! on the friday night wwe all went to a rygby game where we saw wellington v canterbury!my first rugby game-sad i no! i got to see some of the all blacks play....i didnt have a clue who though!! hahaha. that then led to another visit to the welsh bar...and so did saturday night as well!!! we had an amazing time in new zealand....so glad we actually got to go there!!!tanya n neil were a great lugh n daisy was a beaut!haha cant believe we got to go to a welsh bar too :o) (was actually suprisingly full of welsh people)
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