Time to leave rotorua for the next place! But first to the volcanic geysers to see the water and steam spurting out of them into the sky. It’s pretty cool to see, that it’s not actually controlled by anything except the earths core and boiling hot magma that’s only 7km underneath us. We got to boil an egg in a hot pool, which used to be used for cooking years ago by the Maori tribes. The eggs were dipped into the after in a thin cotton bag within a bad we...

Wasn’t feeling so bad this morning considering we only had about 6 hours sleep. Breakfast at 8am, we had cereal, oats granola - yummy!! We left at 9am to drop us into rotorua and for the bus to pick up more people and it head onto Taupo. That would be us in two more days. Still freezing but the sun was out! We couldn’t check into the room until 12 midday so we had a wander around town and found a shop for Ellie to buy a thermal. We were a little zombified b...

We didn’t have an alarm on until 8am so a lovely lie in was on the cards, however we left the radiator on last night and I woke up in such a sweat with the feeling oh, almost suffocation. So I gave it half hour before I got out of bed and went for a shower and what not just to get some fresh air really. Packed up our lemons and left for hobbiton movie set! The set was based in a farming land, some directors of Peter Jackson’s team came and knocked on a f...

It was like being in a caravan last night, not because it was cold but because the lads in the next room over sounded like b****** elephants slamming doors and stamping around their room. Why does it take so much noise to brush your teeth and have a pee!? The same again this morning, I hate waking up before the alarm goes off, it makes me groggy. Even more so than usual. Early morning start to the day aswell, we had to be on the bus for 7.30am take off to Waito...

Not a bad sleep considering my head was right by the door and the silly girl underneath me decided after lying on her bed since 6.30pm that at midnight she couldn’t find her purse so turned the main lights on (we are on top bunk, teaching distance from the light bulb) she then continued to throw her stuff around looking for it and rattle the bed as if it was going to pop out of the mattress! The ‘sorry this is really important’ schpeel didn’t work on me. ...