Blog 23 - end of New Zealand Right now I'm somewhere between New Zealand and Australia: in a couple of hours I'll be in Brisbane and I have no idea where to go when I'm there ;-) So far, everything is turning out fine, so I think I'll find my way… Back to where I stopped writing: Queenstown. Thank you all for your great comments on my bungee jump: It's really nice to hear from you all. After the bungee jump in the bus back I announced that I was going to ...

Before - the jump - after!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJ5VB_U8eM

Blog 22 Wellington is a really nice town. Thursday morning I didn't go for a surf, because it was rubbish, itwas cold and I longed for a hot shower. I went straight to the hostel: Rowena's Lodge. Well, some kind of hostel! The reason I chose it was because of the fact that I could park there for free. When I arrived there I even decided to sleepin my car instead of a dorm and saved 7 dollars, which is 3 euro's (for a warm comfy bed… well, I guess I took the ...

Blog 21 Another week passed by really quickly. I said goodbye to my Coromandel – friends on Tuesday and drove, after passing by Mt Manganui, all the way to Taupo. The plan was to do a bungee jump in Taupo the next morning and the Tongariro Crossing in the Tongariro NP after that. I turned of for an outlook, just before Taupo, and after a couple of minutes a van with 2 guys in it arrived: Shawn (from Hawaii) and Rob (from England) were travelling as well and al...

Blog 20 It’s been a while since Sonia dropped me of at the airport. I picked up my car and headed for Raglan, where I arrived around 9 pm. It was great to see Anne again. She and Dean share their house with another couple: Ilse and Maurice: Dutchies. The next morning Anne, Ilse and I went for a surf at Ruapuke: a 40 minute drive on a dirt road, but worth it, since there were no waves at Raglan beach. Ruapuke was not big small, but we had some fun waves. After...