Month: October 2016

So we woke up this morning to a wonderfully sunny day possibly a little too sunny as the blinds didn’t

Today was all about getting from New Plymouth to Turangi which we did along the forgotten world highway. We set

So today the plan was to go to the visitor centre at the south end of Mt Egmont walk to

So after a few days of being relatively in land we are heading back to the sea, although to be

Despite having the entire cottage to ourselves, we are actually booked in on a bed and breakfast basis, so after

So unfortunately the weather forecast today was correct it had forecast rain and rain it did. As we were having

So true to form, today we are booked on a boat cruise out to the Maori rock carvings and when

Today we say goodbye to Rotorua and to be honest I am rather looking forward to leaving the smell behind,

Another lovely sunning morning even though it is a bank holiday weekend, it is still a little chilly but the

So after the heavy rain of last night it looked really nice out this morning the sun was out but

Friday 21 October – Hobbit town (Hobbiton) It is hard to believe we have been here 2 weeks now we

After breakfast we set off for the Karangahake Gorge as there are a couple of historic walks around the old

So the sun was shining again when we got up this morning, so after breakfast we packed up the final

So today we had booked onto a Kayak trip to paddle round to Cathedral cove, the other option would have

After breakfast we set off to Whitianga to take the ferry over to the peninsula as there are a couple

So I was right we didn’t leave the sitting room yesterday as we were in control of the fire, but

So we have now been as far north as we can go to Cape Reinga and now we are heading

Today we drove to Cape Reinga and Martha and Roly had provided some suggestions of places to stop on route.

After breakfast we packed up the car and set off for Doubtless Bay, it is only a couple of hours

This morning didn’t look as nice as yesterday but as it turned out, was only a little cooler and was

This morning we had arranged to go on a half day cruise around the Bay of Islands and out to

So today we collected our car and leave Auckland, next stop Paihia. We checked out of the hotel and left

So the day started well, we slept through to the alarm going off then sat in bed for a while

So as predicted jet lag kicked in about 5am and we were both wide awake and ready to go, but

So after 2 planes. 3 flights, 4 countries and more time zones / hours than I could keep track of

Finally on the way to New Zealand, seems to have taken ages for it to come round but we did