Back to Auckland the next day for our last night! There was a BBQ happening that night at Mike´s parents house, Karen´r bro in law. It was in our honour! I think it was to celebrate us leaving NZ!! Was fun. They have a pool table downstairs at their house and a bar! Had some food, some drink, the big dog drooled on me. Was a nice ending. Gone a month, was hard to believe. Time for the next part of the adventure to begin!!

Smelly Rotorua. Karen refused to go there again, she was there the last time she was in NZ. It´s a natural geothermal area and smells like rotten eggs due to the sulphur. I didn´t really mind it that much, I think she is overreacting! Though I did wake up that morning, who in the dorm had farted..then I remembered where I was! ;-) I waked around the free geothermal area first. Like a park, with the sulphur pools bubbling away in various locations. Then I...

More exploring of the North Island! I decided to rent a car for a few days to explore some more. I got a lovely little...Yaris! How nice, was like being at home! Cept it was an automatic! Headed off to Coromandel, was a long drive. Got a bit bored being on my own so long in the car. Again, didn´t get up to too much that eve, had food, went to bed. What an exciting time I had! It was a bit strange travelling around on my own, I liked it and didn´t like it, does...

Hello! I have found time to update. I´m at a loose end and got free internet access so here goes! So after getting back from our South Island trip, Karen wanted to spend some time with her sister and family while she still had some time left in NZ. I wanted to explore the North Island before I left! Angela kindly lent me her car for the weekend so I took off north on Saturday. My first time driving an automatic, and a saloon car for that matter. Was looking fo...

Next day was the bus to Kaikoura.That´s all I need to say about that.You can do dolphin & seal swimming there and whale watching but it was grey and overcast and misty.Enough said, I went on the net for a few hours!! Last day of our South Island trip, ahhh, just got the bus back to Picton where we were getting the ferry back to Wellington.Got back to Wellington where we were staying for the night.I like Wellington also.We attempted to find another outdoor c...