After a night camping in a Picton layby - yes we are that broke and that classy, we caught the ferry (with no breaking down this time) to Wellington. To say we slept the whole way would be an accurate statement! We then took the foretold less scenic route back up to Rotorua to take advantage of our free Polynesian Spa voucher :-). Route 1, which we were told was the quickest but not the prettiest route turned out to be amazing. We saw the valley that was used f...

So with a very sad heart we had to leave Bora Bora, spending a single night in Tahiti before travelling to Auckalnd in New Zealand. This trip was a bit bumpy becuase of the terbulance, but all in all not uncomfortable - we crossed the dateline and lost a whole 25 hours - therefore no jetlag as we arrive at the time we thought we would only a day later! We had hired a campervan for our whistle stop tour of New Zealand planning on doing both islands in 3 weeks! (we...