New Zealand is treating us very well, we seem to be going at a slower pace and with much nicer roads we are seeing more when we are driving rather than the highroads in Oz. The only downers are the number of flies and they don’t get ‘Gluten Free’ the same way as Oz did so I won’t be eating as exotically over the next few weeks.
We had a fabulous day in Auckland shopping in the day time and then had a big night out in the evening, exploring Ponsenby’s nightlife offerings-fyi, very very good! I sampled a multitude of NZ wines and got Ed on the case soon after. Ooh and some very yummy tapas.
With sore heads the following day we grabbed brekkie on the harbour and went off to pick up camper number two. A short drive took us to Waipu Cove for the first night. It was fun to have a night out on the town and live the city life again but it was lovely to be back in our little bubble again, cooking whatever we wanted and moving whenever we wanted.
The next couple of days we drove up around the very north of North Island, stopping in at the house where the treaty was signed in 1840 between the Maoris and the British before doing some AMAZING sandboarding courtesy of Jess and Ben Slater and Wedding Gift number 9!
Somewhat coincidently (?) we ended up in a town on a Saturday night that had a local Rugby team playing so we caught the Chiefs play against the Melbourne Rebels and win a very decent 33-10. It was a good laugh and I was chuffed to see the Haka but it rained the entire time and so it was a very very wet evening!
Currently we are camping in the best campsite we’ve stayed on at the top of a hill overlooking a beautiful beach, there are cows right outside the back of the camper and those without vans get to stay in renovated train carriages, very cool indeed. Hopefully we’ll get up in time tomorrow for some surfing before heading down the road to check out the local cave full of glow worms......
We are finally in New Zealand
Sandboarding, awesome videos to come.....
A rather rainy rugby game
Waves were too choppy for a surf so we just messed about instead!
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