More of Wellington and Surrounding

Hobos In The Capital

On the outskirts of Wellington we visited a national park which is technically a rainforest. We went for a lovely walk here across rope bridges and through dense forest. The park was the setting of the Elven city of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings so you can appreciate how beautiful it was.

Wellington Was a nice place but that’s about all I can say. Yes it’s a city, well done. Um……um…..um…. We went to the cinema……..and a museum…..Wicked. Apart from that we slept on the streets in the van, washing ourselves in the morning in the public toilets. Bit of a problem as it was only free overnight, so the van had a few “unofficial” sites. Perhaps I should write a book titled “how to wash your hair in a shallow metal basin”

From here we caught the boat over to the South Island.

More Napier and Hastings

Napier and Hastings

Napier was next, and we had recommendations from the smiths that the local marine rescue centre was the place to visit. Oh what fun and frolics!!! I held a penguin!!! We saw a dolphin jump through the obligatory hoops, and watched some seals stuff their faces. Plus we had a macaw ask us to give it a scratch. “Have a scratch. Have a scratch . Go on then!”
We certainly did have a scratch, I can tell you!!!!

Stayed in a car park first night, second night found a great free campervan park on a beach, we loved it here.

Wine, wine, wine, cheese, cheese, cheese !!!!! YUM YUM YUM, This is Hastings, New Zealand style!
Shit town though….what a surprise. Turned up, went for wine tasting, cheese tasting, bought a book, left.

More Rotorua

Raglan to Rotorua

Rotorua is one of the towns in new Zealand that has built its tourist industry around its many hot springs and mud pools, aswell as the big site of “geezers!!!!!” or geysers. We new we had arrived due to the smell of eggy farts as we stepped out of the van.
We had lots of fun there doing a few touristy bits and bobs, but even better was that I met up with my lovely cousins sarah and jo. I always new we wanted to cross paths. We where travelling down and they where travelling up. Drinks and laughs followed but unfortunately it finished quite quickly as jamie and I had to leave the next day to stay on schedule . Thanks girls if you ever read this, we had a lovely time, and “freaky” you made us laugh!

More Of Raglan and Surrounding

Further adventures…

We have settled in our new home at the Lakeview Holidays Park, Wanaka, north of Queenstown. Is has been some time since we first set off from Auckland and we have seen so much of NZ already yet still there is so much to see. Here we go back 2 months in time see how our journey has been so far…..

Auckland to Raglan

The first leg of the journey takes us as you already know to a place called Raglan. A surfing mecca yet a small and quaint town. It is here that we got engaged and so is special to us. Perhaps the wrong tie of year being that it was hardly swimming weather and the wind nearly forced us off the road and onto our sides at the campervan park in town.

When leaving town we took the “scenic route” by which the scenes were great around the cliffed coastline but the road was treacherous. We came to beautiful, black sanded, desolate beach. It was way to cold to swim, besides the waves were far to big and fierce to go into.