Well after returning to the North Island we spent a couple of days in Wellington, checking out the Parliament building and Te Papa museum. After Wellington we headed back to good old Palmerston North for the weekend before hitting the road again on Monday 31st March 2008 and heading to Rotorua. For those who don't know Rotorua is a centre for geothermal activity, which means that the whole place smells like egg sandwiches and there are hot pools and steam aro...

We have been in New Zealand since the 15th January 2008 and we have been a bit slow on keeping up to date with the blog so here is a summary of what we have been up to since we have arrived. As you may or may not know my (Ali) cousins Sam and Dan both live in Palmerston North with their partners Frazer and Penny and so we have spent a bit of time being led astray, I mean shown around by them. For our first weekend in NZ we went to a small beachside town calle...