Napier is wonderful!!!! We only had today here which is such a shame! It has stunning views and a lovely art deco town. The beach was so beautiful (Napier is on the coast) it was a stony one though, No one really swims there though. I was so ready to! Its really nice to skate/rollerblade here and they have a good skate park and an aquarium. Anna had a nice wonder about a garden too and bought a skirt and then read her book in a park whilst the sun set (a very ...

We have done nothing in Taupo but sleep and eat! We had a snooze on a dock which was nice, then got food. Mel has a padlock we;ve been using for our safes but anna and i decided to buy padlocks. Anna got a key one (which ironically Mel and I laughed at her for cos anna always loses keys) and I got a combination one to save stress..... Fixing my padlock to a particular combination, i thought Id be clever and lock my bag shut to test it out... i spent the next h...

***Long blog alerrrrtttt*** It took a while to get to Rotorua but when we did we sprung into action plan; find hostel, dump stuff, make plans. However this time making plans was a little bit trickier. We had 2 days in Rotorua to fill up, however there seemed to be endless things we could do (all the time prices being a little ridiculous!). 2 hours later we managed to book up a Maori Experience for that evening, a day trip to Waitomo Caves for the next day, and...

I am currently sitting in a hostel in Rotorua watching Don't Mess With the Zohan. But to backtrack a bit Im going to write up the last couple of days which have been pretty busy! I last wrote about going out in Coromandel... well the place was pretty dead. We went to a random bar but just ended up back at the hostel to chill for a little. We slept in the next day and took our time getting ready as we'd had quite a few early mornings. We also didn't really mean t...

Usually I don't really write much about bus days - we had to catch a bus from Paihia to Auckland at 8am then Auckland to Thames, then Thames to Coromandel arriving t 5pm... we knew it would be a long day! It started off pretty normally and we had some lunch at our usual (we like to call it that because we went there before with Lisa and Sam). I even managed to crack out some revision on the second bus deciding a week off maths is probably the most I can afford......